Poetry
Short Poetry Collection 123
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Various
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013.
The Sad Years
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Dora Sigerson Shorter
This is a collection of poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter, whose subject are the Sad Years 1914-1918. - Summary by Carolin
In Flanders Fields (version 2)
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John Mccrae
LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen readings of In Flanders Fields, one of the more famous poems written during the First World War. John …
The Death-bed
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Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wr…
Short Poetry Collection 146
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Various
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015.
Main Street, and Other Poems
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Joyce Kilmer
This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself…
The Kingdom of Love
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. - Summary by Carolin
The Homing Bee
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E. Pauline Johnson
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she wa…
Short Poetry Collection 160
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Various
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016.
Among the Trees Again
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Evaleen Stein
This is a volume of poetry by Evaleen Stein. Special about this volume is, among other things, that many of the poems point to certain seaso…
Songs of Cheer
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John Kendrick Bangs
This is a volume of poetry by John Kendrick Bangs. All the poems in this volume share the very positive tone, they discuss happiness, love, …
At Sunrise
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Bliss Carman
Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them a…
On Hearing the Messiah
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William Lisle Bowles
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father Willia…
Contrasted Songs
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Marian Longfellow
This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, "A…
Ardours and Endurances
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Robert Nichols
This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: "On 11 November 1985, Nichols was amo…
To The Moon
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Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor…
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland
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William Wordsworth
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence
Ballads of Peace in War
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Michael Earls
This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concer…
Refuge
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Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding expo…
Thanksgiving
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Kate Seymour MacLean
A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881) - Summary by David Lawrence