Poetry
Diary of an Old Soul
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald, a Scottish pastor, wrote these short poems, one for each day of the year, to help him with the severer misfortune he was e…
If
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…
The Princess
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an hero…
The Diary of a Dead Officer
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Arthur Graeme West
Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most …
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)
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Clement Clarke Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summ…
Hymns of the Christian Church
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Variousandcharles William Eliot
A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon…
A Child's Garden of Verses
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, so…
The Faerie Queene Book 1
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Edmund Spenser
"The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse".The Faerie Queene was ne…
The Ramayan, Book 2
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Valmiki
The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti…
Poems: Series One
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Emily Dickinson
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first instal…
Fire and Ice
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…
An Essay on Man
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Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
The Rape of the Lock
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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…