Poetry

Balder Dead

by Matthew Arnold Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.5
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Cynthia Moyer 4.5
The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action …

Christmas on Old-Time Radio

4.3
Experience the magic of Christmas through the voices of Old-Time Radio. This collection features Norman Corwin's legendary Christmas verse, …

African-American Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Celebrate the rich tapestry of African American literature with this diverse anthology, curated to honor Black History Month. This collectio…

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

by Frank Gelett Burgess Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…

Poems and Prose for the Departed

by Various Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
Poems and Prose for the Departed is a thoughtful anthology that explores the profound themes of death and bereavement through a diverse coll…

How the World Works

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4.7
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…

The New Life

by Dante Alighieri Read by Mary J 4.6
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

American Poems

by Various Read by Bellona Times 4.8
American Poems is a curated anthology that showcases the rich tapestry of American poetry from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries. Thi…

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…

Hero and Leander

by Christopher Marlowe Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

Venus and Adonis

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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…

Songs of Innocence and Experience

by William Blake Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience we…

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…

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran 4.8
Language: EnglishThe Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.…

The Diary of a Dead Officer

by Arthur Graeme West Read by Ruth Golding 3.7
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 …

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

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Vintage Verse Rhapsody

by Various Read by Bob Gonzalez 4.9
A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…

Don Juan

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Peter Gallagher 4.9
These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

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