Poetry
The Glugs of Gosh
Read by Chris Goringe
C. J. Dennis
First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…
The Jingle Book
Read by Betsie Bush
Carolyn Wells
The Jingle Book by Carolyn Wells invites young listeners into a whimsical world filled with playful poetry and delightful limericks. This ch…
Christmas Short Works Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This year's Christmas feast of short stories, essays and poetry is mostly English cuisine, with a little dash of French and Middle English s…
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Compiled around 1763, ‘Three Hundred Tang Poems’ is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Poems in Vol…
The Consolation
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Anne Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.
Love-Songs of Childhood
Read by Squid Varilekova
Eugene Field
This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008.
Adventskalender
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Various
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1.-24. Dezember einen Text oder ein Gedicht. Viele haben eine…
Growing Old
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Matthew Arnold
Growing Old is a reflective exploration of the passage of time and the inevitability of aging, penned by the esteemed British poet and cultu…
The Wright Brothers
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Fred Kelly
This is a biography of the Wright Brothers as told by the American humorist and newspaperman Fred Kelly, a personal friend of the Wrights. I…
Tristram and Iseult
Read by Nathan
Matthew Arnold
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. Th…
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…
A Flying Trip Around the World
Read by Holly Jenson
Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charles Dickens and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.
The Presence of Love
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
Metamorphoses
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrain…