Single Author Collections

Infelicia

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Adah Isaacs Menken


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

English Stornelli

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Augusta Webster


In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explo…

Stories and Pictures

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I. L. Peretz


A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…

Summer of Love

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Joyce Kilmer


Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…

Harlem Shadows

Read by Denise Ray


Claude Mckay


An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…

A Scrawl

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James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author, born in the town of Greenfield, Indiana. During his lifetime he …

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

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Carl Sandburg


Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard

The Black Panther

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John Hall Wheelock


John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and be…

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War

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Robert Laurence Binyon


This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…

A Father of Women and Other Poems

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Alice Meynell


Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Edwin Markham


Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…

The Inn of Dreams

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Olive Custance


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

Color

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Countee Cullen


Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…

Bay: A Book of Poems

Read by Bruce Kachuk


D. H. Lawrence


The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident…

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

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James Thomson


While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

Most Blessed For Ever

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Frances Ridley Havergal


LibriVox readers bring you 9 readings of Most Blessed For Ever, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for January 11 to 18, 2…

Selections from Harris's Cabinet

Read by Phil Benson


William Roscoe


In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…

The Sunny Side (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


A. A. Milne


A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of…

Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems

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Sadakichi Hartmann


Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakic…

Introducing Irony (Version 2)

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Maxwell Bodenheim


Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the …

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