Poetry
Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his pa…
Mary Marie
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Eleanor H. Porter
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she lead…
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also dep…
Songs of Kabir
Read by Algy Pug
Kabir
Kabir (1440 - 1518) was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement.The name Kabir comes fr…
Give All To Love
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 17th,…
Eugene Onéguine
Read by MaryAnn
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
The Song of Roland
Read by Joy Chan
Anonymoustranslated Byc. K. Scott-Moncrieff and William James Mcglothlin
The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an Eng…
Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …
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
Read by Elizabeth Klett
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
Read by Ruth Golding
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
Read by Arctura
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
Read by Shurtagal
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
Read by Martin Geeson
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…