Poetry

All Things Can Tempt Me

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William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of All Things Can Tempt Me by W. B. Yeats, from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912). This wa…

A Letter to Her Husband

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Anne Bradstreet


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Letter to Her Husband (Absent upon Public Employment) by Anne Bradstreet. This was the Fortn…

The Witches' Brew (MacBeth Act IV Scene I)

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William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven readings of The Witches' Brew from Act IV Scene I of MacBeth, by William Shakespeare. This was the weekl…

Love in a Cottage

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Nathaniel Parker Willis


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Oct…

Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay

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William Wordsworth


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth. This was t…

The Dixie Book of Days

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Page Andrews


The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for…

Poems of American History, The Colonial Era

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Various


A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…

The World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

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Eva March Tappan


This is the tenth 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 Goop Directory

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Frank Gelett Burgess


In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of…

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekl…

More Bab Ballads

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W. S. Gilbert


This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert…

Ballad of the Tempest

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James Thomas Fields


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4t…

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

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Sir Walter Raleigh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry proj…

Short Poetry Collection 006

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Various


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Slovenly Betsy

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Heinrich Hoffmann


Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

The Rocket Book

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Peter Newell


The Rocket Book can be listened to while viewing a beautiful facsimile edition at the International Children's Digital Libarary (ICDL): http…

O, it was out by Donnycarney

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James Joyce


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of O, it was out by Donnycarney, by James Joyce, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. …

Warble for Lilac-Time

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Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman.

A Shropshire Lad (version 2)

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A. E. Housman


This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

True Culture

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012…

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