Single Author Collections

Hope

by Emily Dickinson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
LibriVox readers bring you 16 versions of Hope, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry selection for the week of November 18, 2013.

The Garden of Dreams

by Madison Cawein Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson

The Crescent Moon

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by Anusha Iyer 4.7
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanj…

The Burning Wheel

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.5
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …

The Passionate Pilgrim

by William Shakespeare Read by Caliban 4.3
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only i…

The Human Boy And The War

by Eden Phillpotts Read by David Wales 4.2
Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fic…

Chicago Poems

by Carl Sandburg Read by KevinS 5
"Chicago Poems" was Carl Sandburg's first collection published by a mainstream publishing house. This slender volume contains at l…

Star Dust

by Jeannette Fraser Henshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is a companion volume to Henshall's book "Rain and Roses." These are short poems of sentiment, romance and spirituality. - S…

Riders of the Stars

by Henry Herbert Knibbs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A collection of poems by novelist, short story writer and poet Henry Herbert Knibbs. Another of his books of verse, "Songs of the Outla…

The Tower

by William Butler Yeats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

A Tree with a Bird in it

by Margaret Widdemer Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…

The Poems of Madison Cawein

by Madison Cawein Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…

Opals

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 3
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 Farmer's Bride

by Charlotte Mew Read by MichaelMaggs 5
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminari…

Amoretti and Epithalamion

by Edmund Spenser Read by Thomas A. Copeland 5
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

A Thief in the Night

by E. W. Hornung Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was …

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…

Rainbows

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 2.8
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …

Fine Clothes to the Jew

by Langston Hughes Read by Dar'Keith Lofton 5
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes. The collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press,…

When Day is Done

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

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