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The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
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Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World W…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2
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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
Selected Poems
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Robert Frost
These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston"…
The Reign of King Oberon
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Walter Jerrold
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
Selections from Harris's Cabinet
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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…
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 Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)
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William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
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Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
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…
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…
Записки охотника (Zapiski Okhotnika)
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Ivan Turgenev
Написанные и впервые вышедшие в свет в середине XIX века, "Записки Охотника" Ивана Сергеевича Тургенева открывают перед нами мир п…
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 …
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems
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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 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…
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…
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 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 …
Bay: A Book of Poems
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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 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…