Poetry

The Kraken

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 5★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the wee…

Winter

by William Shakespeare • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.4★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…

A Winter Day

by Lucy Maud Montgomery • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.3★

A Winter Day by Lucy Maud Montgomery captures the essence of winter through a reflective lens, using the season as a metaphor for the stages…

Lamentations

by King James Version • Read by Mark Penfold • 4.4★

The Book of Lamentations is a series of mournful poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah as he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah lame…

Up One Pair of Stairs

by Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.2★

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

The Lays of Ancient Rome

by Thomas Babington Macaulay • Read by Nathan • 4.4★

The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman hi…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

by Various • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3.8★

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Crossways

by William Butler Yeats • Read by Kasper • 4.2★

The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a No…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection

by William Shakespeare • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.9★

LibriVox readers present the fifth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 15…

I'm Nobody

by Emily Dickinson • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.8★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible…

The Baby's Songbook

by Walter Crane • Read by Carol Stripling • 4.6★

This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's "The Baby's Opera" and "The Baby's Bouquet" containing class…

Gawayne and the Green Knight

by The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis • Read by Betsie Bush • 4.6★

Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telli…

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson • Read by Willy • 5★

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeare…

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

by Edward Lear • Read by Adrian Praetzellis • 4.4★

A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…

Birches

by Robert Frost • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 5★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 3.4★

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…

The Apology

by Ralph Waldo Emerson • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…

Harbour Dawn

by Lucy Maud Montgomery • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4★

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 readings of Harbour Dawn by L. M. Montgomery. This was the fortnightly poem for November 23 - December 7, 2…

Best Way to Read a Book

by Edgar A. Guest • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4.9★

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…

The Masque of Anarchy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley • Read by Phil Benson • 4.5★

The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…