Poetry
Les Fleurs du mal (Poèmes, Sélection)
Read by Guy Marcy
Charles Baudelaire
Il est des textes dont on pourrait dire ce que l’on dit à propos de ces fleurs qui défendent qu’on les touche. C’est une chose…
Don Juan
Read by Peter Gallagher
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
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Omar Khayyám
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…
The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Jan…
Geography and Plays
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Gertrude Stein
Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…
A Drama of Exile
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…
Jerusalem
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William Blake
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008.
Mother Nature
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013Whil…
On Passing Deadman’s Island
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July…
Nonsense Verses
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edward Lear
This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies…
Long Poems Collection
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Various
Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
Reinaart de Vos
Read by Anna Simon
Unknowntranslated Byjulius De Geyter, Translated Byjulius De Geyter and Unknowntranslated By Julius De Geyter
Het episch dierdicht "Van den Vos Reynaerde", geschreven in het Middelnederlands in de 13e eeuw, geldt als een hoogtepunt in de Ne…
Serenade
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Oscar Wilde
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Serenade by Oscar Wilde. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 2…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
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Charles Dickens
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…
Sonnet 116
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of …
LibriVox Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…
Where the Bee Sucks
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2…
Christmas Bells
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry projec…
Easter, 1916
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William Butler Yeats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 5th, 2…
The Giaour
Read by Grant Hurlock
George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaou…