Poetry
The Faerie Queene
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…
Poems of William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and pain…
A Prairie Sunset
A Prairie Sunset is a reflective poem by Walt Whitman that captures the beauty and vastness of the American landscape. Through vivid imagery…
Best Way to Read a Book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…
Psalms
To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible. This was the w…
Vintage Verse Rhapsody
A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
Poems and Prose for the Departed
Poems and Prose for the Departed is a thoughtful anthology that explores the profound themes of death and bereavement through a diverse coll…
Birches
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
Cathay
The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks wr…
The Diary of a Dead Officer
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 …
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
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…
Balder Dead
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…
Psalms of David
Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…
My November Guest
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of My November Guest by Robert Frost. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 16th …
Fire and Ice
LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…
Poems
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first instal…