Poetry

Astrophil and Stella

by Sir Philip Sidney • Read by Elizabeth Klett • 4.5★

Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astr…

Adventskalender

by Various • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.4★

Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme. (Zusammenfassung von Elli)&q…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.4★

This is the second 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 T…

Short Poetry Collection

by Robert Frost • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.7★

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2013.

Caedmon's Hymn

by Caedmon • Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) • 4.2★

Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art o…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) • 4.4★

During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

What Is Love?

by Ernest Dowson • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.7★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of What Is Love? by Ernest Dowson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 15, 2012.Ernest C…

Beautiful Soup

by Lewis Carroll • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3.8★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…

Some Poems of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare • Read by Clarica • 4.8★

A selection of Shakespeare's poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. (Summary by Clarica)

Myricae

by Giovanni Pascoli • Read by Sergio Baldelli • 4.4★

Myricae, è la raccolta di poesie più amata dal Pascoli. [...] Nel 1903, la raccolta definitiva comprendeva 156 liriche del poe…

Sammlung deutscher Gedichte

by Friedrich Nietzsche • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3.3★

Eine Sammlung 20 deutscher Gedichte für LibriVox.

Kubla Khan

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Omar Khayyám • Read by Michael Armenta • 4.7★

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a celebrated collection of quatrains that explores the profound themes of existence, love, …

The Ramayan

by Valmiki • Read by Solo • 4.8★

The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …

The Lays of Ancient Rome

by Thomas Babington Macaulay • Read by Nathan • 4.4★

The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman hi…

Samson Agonistes

by John Milton • Read by Martin Geeson • 4.4★

“The Sun to me is darkAnd silent as the Moon,When she deserts the nightHid in her vacant interlunar cave.”Milton composes his last extended …

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.6★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran • Read by Adam Santoni • 4.7★

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally…

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3.9★

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

A Ballade of Suicide

by G. K. Chesterton • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.2★

A Ballade of Suicide is a thought-provoking poem by G. K. Chesterton that delves into the complexities of life and death with a unique blend…