Poetry
The Rape of the Lock
Read by Rhonda Federman
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 17…
Goblin Market and Other Poems
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …
Days
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…
On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)
Read by Daniel Vimont
Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philoso…
Emily Dickinson on Death
Read by Libby Gohn
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Read by John Gonzalez
Oscar Wilde
Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross inde…
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poe…
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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Various
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
Eirik the Red's Saga
Read by Julian Jamison
Anonymoustranslated Byjohn Sephton and William James Mcglothlin
In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland…
The Prelude
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William Wordsworth
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth pu…
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Read by Peter Yearsley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul…
Gitanjali
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Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very fam…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
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Various and Edmondo De Amicis
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Miscellaneous Poe: Poems and Short Stories
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Edgar Allan Poe
Come and hear some of the wonderful, magical, fantastic and macabre works of the inestimable Edgar Allan Poe. This collection contains the w…
Orlando Furioso
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Ludovico Ariosto
Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and o…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse
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Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…
Sappho: A New Rendering
Read by Libby Gohn
Sappho
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…
The Hunting of the Snark
Read by Robert Garrison
Lewis Carroll
This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and…
Don Quixote
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Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a c…