Poetry

Ring Out, Wild Bells

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson



LibriVox volunteers ring in the new year with nineteen recordings of Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poe…

Early Rising

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John Godfrey Saxe



LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2…

The Slave In The Dismal Swamp

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and r…

The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgivi…

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Ada M. Skinner



From the Introduction: "Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest …

The Wind

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Robert Louis Stevenson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…

The Last Buccaneer

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Thomas Babington Macaulay



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …

I Stepped from Plank to Plank

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Emily Dickinson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Augu…

Robinson Crusoe's Story

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Charles Edward Carryl



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of Robinson Crusoe's Story by Charles Edward Carryl, published in "Modern America…

Leonorenlieder

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Johann Christian Günther



Dies ist eine Sammlung von Liebesgedichten des deutschen Dichters Johann Christian Günther. Obwohl seine Lebensdaten in das barocke Zei…

Poetry of Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore



The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Me…

The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings

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Harriet Beecher Stowe



Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati…

Sympathy

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Paul Laurence Dunbar



LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners wil…

Poems of Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore



In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore…

Pippa Passes

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Robert Browning



Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegra…

A Rubaiyat Miscellany

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Omar Khayyám



The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian po…

The Kitten's Garden of Verses

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Oliver Herford



The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the p…

Winter (Stevenson)

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Robert Louis Stevenson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22nd, 2009.

Up The Line

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Will Carleton



LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.

The Legend of Heinz von Stein

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Charles Godfrey Leland



LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Legend of Heinz von Stein by Charles Godfrey Leland. This was the Weekly Poetry project f…

A Century of Roundels

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Algernon Charles Swinburne



A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (183…

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