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In The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

Read by Matthew Datcher


Frederick Douglass


From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…

Go Plant A Tree - Read by MSD

In Go Plant A Tree

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…

Middle Age Enthusiasms - Read by MSD

In Middle Age Enthusiasms

Read by Matthew Datcher


Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novel…

The Dolls - Read by MSD

In The Dolls

Read by Matthew Datcher


William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British li…

A Late Good Night - Read by MSD

In A Late Good Night

Read by Matthew Datcher


Robert F. Murray


Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and anothe…

A Fairy Glee - Read by MSD

In A Fairy Glee

Read by Matthew Datcher


Eugene Field


This poem is taken from Volume X, A Library of American Literature:An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Repu…

At the Piano - Read by MSD

In At the Piano

Read by Matthew Datcher


Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished h…

Christmas Fancies - Read by MSD

In Christmas Fancies

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…

Christmas Conversion - Read by MSD

In Christmas Conversion

Read by Matthew Datcher


Jean McKishnie Blewett and Jean Mckishnie Blewett


Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in…

The Ship of Earth - Read by MSD

In The Ship of Earth

Read by Matthew Datcher


Sidney Lanier


But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight agai…

At Sunrise - Read by MSD

In At Sunrise

Read by Matthew Datcher


Bliss Carman


Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them a…

October - A Sonnet - Read by MSD

In October - A Sonnet

Read by Matthew Datcher


William Cullen Bryant


William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very s…

In The Trenches - Read by MSD

In In The Trenches

Read by Matthew Datcher


Thomas O'Hagan


Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that "every…

The Twilight Hour - Read by MSD

In The Twilight Hour

Read by Matthew Datcher


Susanna Moodie


Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the…

To The Fighting Weak - Read by MSD

In To The Fighting Weak

Read by Matthew Datcher


Margaret Steele Anderson


Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses …

I Am The World - Read by MSD

In I Am The World

Read by Matthew Datcher


Dora Sigerson Shorter


Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She …

To The Women of Australia - Read by MSD

In To The Women of Australia

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…

The Men Who Live It Down - Read by MSD

In The Men Who Live It Down

Read by Matthew Datcher


Henry Lawson


MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town …

Comfort in the Night - Read by MSD

In Comfort in the Night

Read by Matthew Datcher


Jean Ingelow


Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

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