Single Author Collections

Infelicia

by Adah Isaacs Menken Read by Newgatenovelist
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous a…

Jonah

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of…

Goblins and Pagodas

by John Gould Fletcher Read by Nemo
John Gould Fletcher (1886 – 1950) is considered by many literary scholars to be among the most innovative twentieth-century poets. He enjoye…

The Apple-Tree Table

by Herman Melville Read by ShrimpPhish 3.7
A collection of short stories by Herman Melville, including the title story The Apple-Tree Table, I and My Chimney, The Happy Failure, and s…

Selected Poems

by Edythe Mae Gordon Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Edythe Mae Gordon was a poet and short story author who published in The Saturday Evening Quill. These poems were published in 1929. (Summar…

Rain and Roses

by Jeannette Fraser Henshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers
One reviewer describes these poems as "dainty." Each reflect a delicacy of feeling and sentiment of home, love and nature. Jeanne…

Four Phases of Love

by Paul Heyse Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Paul Heyse was selected as the 1910 Nobel Laureate in Literature in recognition of " ... his long productive career as a lyric poet, dr…

Otherworld: Cadences

by F. S. Flint Read by Nemo 5
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…

The Hotel D'Angleterre

by Mary Elizabeth Hawker Read by David Wales 3.8
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…

Last Poems

by A. E. Housman Read by Foon 4
"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer…

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

by Robert W. Service Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…

Rhyme? And Reason?

by Lewis Carroll Read by MichaelMaggs 4.5
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …

War's Embers

by Ivor Gurney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…

The Poems of Madison Cawein

by Madison Cawein Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton

The Wind Among the Reeds

by William Butler Yeats Read by Newgatenovelist 5
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…

A Lover's Diary

by Gilbert Parker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…

The Inn of Dreams

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 3.5
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Butler Yeats Read by Peter Tucker 4.2
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…

Songs by the Sea

by Rebecca Ruter Springer Read by Larry Wilson
Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

December Tales

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Ben Tucker 2.8
December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…

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