Poetry

The Waste Land

Read by Basil Munroe Godevenos


T. S. Eliot


The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poe…

La Divina Commedia

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Dante Alighieri


La Divina Commedia, originalmente Commedìa, è un poema di Dante Alighieri, capolavoro del poeta fiorentino, considerata la pi&…

The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)

Read by TimSC


Friedrich Nietzsche


"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …

Metamorphoses

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Read by Becky Miller


Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet an…

To the Old Pagan Religion

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H. P. Lovecraft


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft. This was the fortnightly poetry project for Feb…

Der Struwwelpeter

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Heinrich Hoffmann


Der Struwwelpeter, zuerst erschienen als “Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3…

Les Fleurs du mal

Read by Thomas de Châtillon


Charles Baudelaire


L’on trouvera ici une version intégrale des Fleurs du Mal du célèbre poète.« Quand le ciel bas et lourd p&…

Max und Moritz (version 2)

Read by Roman Buettner


Wilhelm Busch


Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen (Erstveröffentlichung 4. April 1865) ist das wohl bekannteste Werk von Wilhel…

The Speaking Voice

Read by Ruth Golding


Katherine Jewell Everts


From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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William Shakespeare


Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.…

The Divine Companion

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James Allen


James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In t…

Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

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Sophocles


Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…

The Aeneid

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Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms

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King James Version


The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 po…

Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen

Read by Sonja


Heinrich Heine


Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen ist ein satirisches Versepos des deutschen Dichters Heinrich Heine (1797–1856). Unzufrieden mit den poli…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

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H. G. Wells


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…

Simplemente Darío

Read by arturo


Rubén Darío


Esta es una colleccion de poemas de Ruben Darío. (Summary by Arturo)

A Dream within a Dream

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Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project for t…

On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)

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Titus Lucretius Carus


Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…

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