Poetry
Don Quixote
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Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a c…
The Ramayan, Book 3
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Valmiki
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). …
Bible (KJV) 19: Psalm 133
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King James Version
LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of Psalm 133, to celebrate United Nations Day. This was the weekly poetry project f…
Evangeline
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…
African-American Collection
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Various
This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are Africa…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
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Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Read by Nick Duncan
William Blake
The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…
Don Juan, Canto 1
Read by Peter Gallagher
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventua…
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Read by Kevin Steinbach
Teika No Fujiwara
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…
Love and Friendship
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Emily Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…
Holy Sonnets
Read by David Barnes
John Donne
John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, nota…
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote i…
Maude
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Christina Rossetti
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Read by Verity Kendall
William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 …
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific
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Eva March Tappan
This is the first 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 Ta…
Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
The Rape of Lucrece
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William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in …
The Power of Words
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
Our Old Nursery Rhymes
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Alfred Moffat
Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le M…
Hymn Collection 001
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Various
Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.All Glory Laud and Honor - Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans;…