Poetry
Six Poèmes
Les 6 poèmes lus ici constituent l’intégralité de l’œuvre poétique de Catherine Pozzi. Ces textes éblouis…
A Thrush Before Dawn
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of A Thrush Before Dawn by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…
Heaven
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Heaven by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 16th, 2008…
The Beecher Beached
Father John Banister Tabb was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English. Father Tabb (as he was commonly known) was …
The Cuisine
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, who was considered a popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she express…
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…
The Charm
To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — &…
Ballad
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…
The Flood
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countrys…
The Willows
The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe.Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short f…
Lyrics of Earth
This is a volume of nature poetry by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. Lampman is considered one of the most distinguished poets of his time,…
Erie Waters
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nati…
Flower of Youth
This is a volume of poetry by Irish poet and writer Kathrine Tynan about World War I. Published in 1917, the poems translate the general atm…
Christmas Fancies
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…
The Brother Avenged
This is a series of ten narrative poems by George Borrow. They capture the spirit of epic poetry perfectly, set in medieval times and tellin…
By the Sea
This is a collection of poetry by Hannah Lavinia Baily. They describe a number of different settings, prominently the sea in the titular poe…
A Canadian Summer Evening
From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression …
You Never Can Tell
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…
The Cheery Way
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…
The Cheery Way
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…