Poetry
Maude
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
The New Life
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Psalms and Odes of Solomon
One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) that are not part of any scriptura…
Morning and Evening Thoughts
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. Alle…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
Rainer Maria Rilke
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 17…
Selected Poems of John Clare
John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature po…
Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose
The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …
All Is Beautiful
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…
Robert Browning Collection
Celebrate the legacy of Robert Browning with this curated collection of his poetry and prose, brought to life by LibriVox volunteers. This a…
On the Nature of Things
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
The Faerie Queene
"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…
From The Temple
George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…
Short Poetry Collection
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.
Poetics
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…
American Civil War Collection
Explore the profound impact of the American Civil War through a curated collection of poems and short literary works. This anthology brings …