Single Author Collections
Bib Ballads
Read by Jack Thro
Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little so…
Familie en kennissen
Read by Marcel Coenders
Piet Paaltjens
De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought
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Elizabeth Porter Gould
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary b…
A Song of the Guns
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Gilbert Frankau
"A Song of the Guns was written under what are probably the most remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The auth…
Verses Popular And Humorous
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Henry Lawson
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
Rhyme? And Reason?
Read by MichaelMaggs
Lewis Carroll
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 …
Over Here and Over There
Read by MaryAnn
Harry Zody
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …
A Child's Garden of Verses
Read by MichaelMaggs
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…
Cottage Poems
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Patrick Brontë
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and tea…
Orpheus in Mayfair
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Maurice Baring
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
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 Sonnets of John Keats
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Keats
The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonne…
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 City of Dreadful Night
Read by MoonLylith
James Thomson
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…
Enough Rope
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Dorothy Parker
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…
Song of Myself
Read by Phil Benson
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…
The Tales of Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Here are 25 stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov, beautifully translated by Constance Garnett, each showcasing Chekhov's intimate knowled…
The Sirens Three
Read by Noel Badrian
Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them "The Happy Prince and Other Stories&…
English Stornelli
Read by Newgatenovelist
Augusta Webster
In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explo…