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by Alfred Castner King Read by Alan Mapstone 5
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

To Delia by Samuel Daniel

by Samuel Daniel Read by Craig Franklin 4.6
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

Introductory Note

by Robert Ernest Vernède Read by KevinS 4
In War poems and other verses
Vernède enlisted with the British Army as a second lieutenant at the start of World War I, even though he was over the maximum age of…

To You Who Read My Book

by Countee Cullen Read by Michael MacTaggert 2.8
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…

Wouter Van Twiller

by Washington Irving Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan 4.2
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful anthology that brings together a rich collection of 53 short stories and poems from 44 diverse …

Author's Preface

by Harry Graham Read by mleigh 5
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…

Pomarrosal

by Muna Lee Read by Newgatenovelist 2.5
In Sea-change
Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summa…

Winter at Delphi

by Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather Read by Alan Mapstone 5
In April Twilights and Other Poems
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)

To L—

by Lord Alfred Douglas Read by Andrew Gaunce
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …

Translation

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Inkell
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…

Selected excerpts

by Johann Jakob Bodmer Read by Craig Campbell 4.2
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Pinkle Purr

by A. A. Milne Read by Winnifred Assmann 5
In Now We Are Six
Milne's second book of children's poetry: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and no…

Friends in San Rosario

by O. Henry (1862-1910) and O. Henry Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.3
In Short Story Collection Vol. 049
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 049: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.'H…

Blest

by Julia Caroline Dorr Read by Julia Niedermaier
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin

Marion

by Paul Heyse Read by Victor Dorff
In Four Phases of Love
Paul Heyse was selected as the 1910 Nobel Laureate in Literature in recognition of " ... his long productive career as a lyric poet, dr…

Vistas by Odell Shepard

by William Stanley Braithwaite Read by Robert Gordon
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…

A RETRIEVED REFORMATION

by O. Henry Read by Scott Foster 4.7
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid

Romance

by Henry Herbert Knibbs Read by Darby 5
In Riders of the Stars: A Book of Western Verse
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 Latest Decalogue

by Arthur Hugh Clough Read by Newgatenovelist
In Selected Poems
During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social in…

Memorial Tablet

by Siegfried Sassoon Read by Bruce Kachuk
In Selected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of …

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