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Entrapped
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Alice Mangold Diehl
The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Z…
Light on the Path
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Mabel Collins
When Light on the Path was first published in 1885, it became an important work for Theosophists and has remained so ever since. It offers a…
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…
Dr Paull's Theory
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Alice Mangold Diehl
Hugh Paull's training in a London hospital is nearly complete, and he will soon be qualified as a doctor. But what fate is in store for him?…
Mother and Daughter
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Augusta Webster
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…
Sonnets
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Constance Naden
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…
The Young Diana
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Marie Corelli
Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems …
Selected Poems
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Arthur Hugh Clough
During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social in…
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…
Verse
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Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and e…
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)
Some Verses
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Theodore Wratislaw
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Orchids
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Theodore Wratislaw
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
The History of Mary Prince
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Mary Prince
Mary Prince was born into slavery in the West Indies. As a free woman in England she wrote her memoirs, which sold well and supported and pu…
Poems
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Mary Coleridge
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously me…
Selected Poems
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Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal was a British poet, artist and model. Her poems were not published in a single volume in her lifetime; this collection brin…
Beauty's Hour
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Olivia Shakespear
The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But…
The Voices of the Rivers
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Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
Nina Salaman was a noted scholar, translator and columnist. As well as translating medieval Hebrew poetry, she was a poet in her own right. …
A Calendar of Sonnets (Version 3)
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote poetry, nonfiction and fiction and was a popular author in her own time. This sonnet sequence reviews the months of…
On a Grey Thread
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Elsa Gidlow
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her…
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…
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
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Ellen Craft
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
The Diwan
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Zeb-Un-Nissa
Zeb-un-Nissa was a poet and Mughal princess. This collection includes 50 of her compositions and a dedicatory poem by the translator and was…
The Garden of Kama
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Laurence Hope
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Sonnets
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Cordelia Ray
Cordelia Ray was a Black author and teacher. This volume contains 12 of her poems and was first published in 1893. - Summary by Newgatenovel…
The Last Lords of Gardonal
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William Gilbert
Two brothers, born into money and power, are as cruel as the feudal age in which they live. But when the oppressed villagers seek help from …
Twenty
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Stella Benson
Twenty, Stella Benson’s first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First …
Horror Stories
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Ada Buisson
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …
The Dhammapada (Version 3)
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Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller
The Dhammapada collects sayings of the Buddha, offering advice on how to live a full and thoughtful life. The translation used for this reco…
For Eager Lovers
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1922 and deals with topics such as pe…
Hawaiian Hilltop
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1923 and deals with topics such as pe…
Stars of the Desert
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Laurence Hope
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Chants for Socialists
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William Morris
As well as being influential in the Arts and Crafts Movement and writing numerous poems and novels, William Morris was deeply involved in po…
Poems
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Elinor Jenkins
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection publishe…
Pearl (Weston translation)
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The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston
Pearl is a structurally complex mediaeval poem that combines narrative, allegory, dream vision, elegy, affirmation of Christian faith and me…
Machine-Room Chants
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Tom Maguire
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Poesies from Abroad
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Florence Henniker
Florence Henniker was a British poet and novelist whose ‘Poesies from Abroad’ was first published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in Septe…
Later Poems
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as t…
Two Supernatural Stories
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Perceval Landon
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
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Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor was a Black nurse in the 33rd United States Colored Troops in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and …
Love Poems
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F. W. Harvey
F. W. Harvey was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor. These poems, taken from his 1921 collection Farewell, embody his love of nature…
Valley and Mesa
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Lucy Eddy
Lucy Eddy was an American poet. These poems were published in Poetry in February 1918 and celebrate the Californian landscape and the joys o…
The Gardener and The Burden
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Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
Poems of Puncture
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Amanda McKittrick Ros and Amanda Mckittrick Ros
Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poetry and prose have earned notoriety for their highly individual syntax, creative punctuation, unique diction, and…
Selected Poems
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Elfrida De Renne Barrow
Elfrida De Renne Barrow was an American poet and a curator of the Georgia Historical Society. These poems were published between 1922 and 19…
Last Poems
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Laurence Hope
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Three Supernatural Stories
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Wilhelmina Fitzclarence
Wilhemina Fitzclarence was a Scottish novelist and short story author and a descendant of King William IV. In these stories published in 189…
Selected Poems
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Pauline B. Barrington
Pauline B. Barrington was an American poet and playwright. These poems were published between 1916 and 1918 and take for their inspiration t…
Hymns to the Night, version 2
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Novalis
Written after a bereavement, ‘Hymns to the Night’ considers hope, faith and spirituality in the face of loss. This recording is of George Ma…
Selected Poems
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Iris Barry
Iris Barry was a British and American poet, novelist, film critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. These poems were…
Holy Sonnets (Version 3)
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John Donne
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …
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Susan Boogher
Susan M. Boogher was twentieth-century poet. These poems were published in Poetry, The Century, Harper's Magazine and The Midland from 1918 …
The Indians in the Woods
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Janet Lewis
Janet Lewis was an American poet and novelist who studied at the University of Chicago. The Indians in the Woods – ‘Imagistic in technique’,…
Selected Poems
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Marion Cummings
Marion Cummings was an American poet and academic. Born in San Jose, she graduated from the University of California and taught at the Unive…
Selected Poems
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Thomas Parker Sanborn
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…
The Irtonwood Ghost
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Elinor Glyn
Esther Charters is travelling to Irtonwood Manor to stay over Christmas with friends. But what connection could Irtonwood – and its ghost – …
Selected Poems
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Mary Willis Shuey
Mary Willis Shuey lived in New Orleans and was ‘an authority and prolific writer on things Southern’. These poems were published between 191…
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Marion Strobel
Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…
The Pale Woman
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Sara Bard Field
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
Selected Poems
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Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…
Selected Poems
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Luis Muñoz Marín
Luis Muñoz Marín was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico as well as a poet. This collection includes poems published fro…
Selected Poems
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José Santos Chocano
José Santos Chocano was a Peruvian poet and diplomat. These poems were originally published from 1916 to 1925 and were translated by …
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Rafael Cabrera
Rafael Cabrera was a Mexican poet and diplomat who also studied medicine. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell and were publ…
Selected Poems
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a pre-eminent poet of the Victorian period in the United Kingdom. This selection of poems includes some of he…
Selected Poems
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Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was a poet, educator, Nobel Prize laureate and diplomat from Chile. These poems were translated by Muna Lee, Alice Stone Bl…
A Mystery of the Campagna
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Anne Crawford
A group of artists are busy pursuing their calling in Rome when one of them decides to seek a remote villa to work alone. But when his frien…
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José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet and exponent of the modernismo literary movement. These poems were translated by Muna…
Three Hills
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Everard Owen
In this short collection of poetry published in 1916, the Reverend Everard Owen explores the sacrifices of the First World War from an Engli…
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Julio Herrera y Reissig and Julio Herrera Y Reissig
Julio Herrera y Reissig was a poet and essayist from Uruguay who wrote Romantic, Modernist and Surrealist verses. These poems were translate…
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Rufino Blanco Fombona
Rufino Blanco Fombona was a Venezuelan poet who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. These poems were translated by Muna Lee and…
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Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones was a poet, short story author, novelist and biographer from Argentina. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwel…
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a nun, poet, dramatist and composer from Mexico. These poems were translated by Muna Lee, Peter H. Gold…
A Marigold Miscellany
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Arthur William Fisher, Franklin H. Mackey, Mary Pettus Thomas, Harvey Maitland Watts, Catherine Wheeler, George Wither and Susan Augusta Woodbridge
This collection celebrates the marigold in verse from the 17th through the 20th centuries. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
Selected Poems - Urbina
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Luis Urbina
Luis Urbina was a Mexican poet and the director of the National Library of Mexico. These poems were originally published from 1916 to 1925 a…
Selected Poems - Martinez
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Rafael Arévalo Martínez
Rafael Arévalo Martínez was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, short story author and directory of the National Library in Guatemala…
Selected Poems - Casal
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José Julián del Casal and José Julián Del Casal
Julián del Casal was a Cuban poet and exponent of the modernismo literary movement. These poems were translated by Thomas Walsh, Jorg…
Selected Poems - Manzano
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Juan Francisco Manzano
Juan Francisco Manzano was a poet who was born into slavery in Cuba. This collection was translated by the Irish abolitionist Richard Robert…
Sea-change
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Muna Lee
Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summa…
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Amado Nervo
Amado Nervo was a Mexican poet, novelist and diplomat. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell, Thomas Walsh and Ernest F. Luca…