Poetry
Max und Moritz
Read by Mikki Starzmann-Kassi
Wilhelm Busch
Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen (Erstveröffentlichung 4. April 1865) ist das wohl bekannteste Werk von Wilhel…
Beowulf
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere, Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Unknowntranslated By Francis Barton Gummere
This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…
Spirits in Bondage
Read by Robert Garrison
C. S. Lewis
Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 unde…
The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…
Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…
Edgar Allan Poe Poems
Read by Shurtagal
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) is widely famed as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is best known for his works of horror, such as …
Поэмы (Poems)
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Alexander Pushkin
Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин (1799 - 1837) — русский поэт , драматург и прозаик . Александр Сергеевич Пушкин имеет репутацию великого или в…
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
Read by Becky Miller
Robert Frost
Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…
Paradise Lost (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…
The Age of Innocence
Read by Brenda Dayne
Edith Wharton
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolut…
Le Cid
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Pierre Corneille
Des deux prétendants de Chimène, son favori semble être agréé par son père. Ce digne fils d'un viei…
The Waste Land
Read by Basil Munroe Godevenos
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poe…
La Divina Commedia
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Dante Alighieri
La Divina Commedia, originalmente Commedìa, è un poema di Dante Alighieri, capolavoro del poeta fiorentino, considerata la pi&…
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)
Read by TimSC
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …
Metamorphoses
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…
To the Old Pagan Religion
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H. P. Lovecraft
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft. This was the fortnightly poetry project for Feb…
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Read by Becky Miller
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet an…
Der Struwwelpeter
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Heinrich Hoffmann
Der Struwwelpeter, zuerst erschienen als “Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3…
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