Poetry
In Harmony with Nature
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Matthew Arnold
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of In Harmony with Nature. by Matthew Arnold. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 8, 201…
A Prairie Sunset
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Prairie Sunset by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 28, 2011.Walt…
A Winter Day
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Montgomery's poem on winter is an analogy for life, symbolizing the three life stages of youth, adulthood and old age.
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Read by Mark F. Smith
Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 03
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Containing 20 parts. - William Shakespeare (April 26, …
The Reign of King Edward the Third
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William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…
A Chesterton Calendar
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G. K. Chesterton
Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…
Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry Collection
Read by Bob Gonzalez
Various
A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
To Be a Pilgrim
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John Bunyan
From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This wa…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizab…
Winter (Shakespeare)
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…
A Child's Garden of Verses (version 2)
Read by Willy
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeare…
The Trenches
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Frederic Manning
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Trenches by Frederic Manning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 30, 201…
Poems 1817
Read by Peter Tucker
John Keats
Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, esp…
The Lord of the Isles
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Sir Walter Scott
In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile…
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia
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Eva March Tappan
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
The Wanderings of Oisin
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William Butler Yeats
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…
Hero and Leander
Read by Martin Geeson
Christopher Marlowe
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…