Poetry
Poems
In this collection, Emily Dickinson invites listeners into her introspective world, where the profound themes of life, love, and death are e…
Five Minute Stories
Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. So…
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism is a foundational work of literary criticism by Alexander Pope, blending poetry and philosophical reflection. Written …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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…
The Courtship of Miles Standish
During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection
A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.
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…
The Raven and Other Poems
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded,…
Gitanjali
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very fam…
Maude
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…
Psalms of David
Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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…
Paradise Regain'd
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
Short Poetry Collection
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 22 public-domain poems.
Miscellaneous Poe
Come and hear some of the wonderful, magical, fantastic and macabre works of the inestimable Edgar Allan Poe. This collection contains the w…
Heroides
The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, …
The Freedmen's Book
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
Shakespeare Monologues Collection
LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Containing 20 parts. - William Shakespeare (April 26, …
Paradise Regained
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more…
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…