Poetry
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008.
Adventskalender
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Various
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1.-24. Dezember einen Text oder ein Gedicht. Viele haben eine…
Growing Old
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Matthew Arnold
Growing Old is a reflective exploration of the passage of time and the inevitability of aging, penned by the esteemed British poet and cultu…
The Wright Brothers
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Fred Kelly
This is a biography of the Wright Brothers as told by the American humorist and newspaperman Fred Kelly, a personal friend of the Wrights. I…
Tristram and Iseult
Read by Nathan
Matthew Arnold
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. Th…
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…
A Flying Trip Around the World
Read by Holly Jenson
Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…
Metamorphoses
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Short Poetry Collection
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Charles Dickens and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.
The Presence of Love
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrain…
A Child's Garden of Verses
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern…
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand?
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry p…
Short Poetry Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
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Emily Dickinson
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers invites listeners into the introspective world of Emily Dickinson, where themes of death, immortality, and …
Totum revolutum
Read by KendalRigans
Teodoro Guerrero Pallarés
En este libro se reúnen diversos poemas satíricos sobre diferentes circunstancias de la vida, tales como el matrimonio, la mue…
Cornhuskers
Read by Betsie Bush
Carl Sandburg
Cornhuskers is a celebrated collection of 103 poems by Carl Sandburg, capturing the essence of American life in the early 20th century. Thro…