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The First Jasmines - Read by JM

In The First Jasmines

Read by J. McDougall


Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…

The Priest's Brother - Read by JM

In The Priest's Brother

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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 wa…

On the Sight of a Skull - Read by JM

In On the Sight of a Skull

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Mary Mollineux


Mary Mollineux (born Mary Southworth) was probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, differed from many of her Qu…

September - Read by JM

In September

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Michael Field


Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her …

The Workman's Dream - Read by JM

In The Workman's Dream

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Edgar A. Guest


Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific English-bor…

The Wasted Day - Read by JM

In The Wasted Day

Read by J. McDougall


R. F. Murray and Robert F. Murray


Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most not…

Thomas Moore

In Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems

Read by J. McDougall


Julia Caroline Dorr


This is a collection of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin

Canadian Boat-Song - Read by JM

In Canadian Boat-Song

Read by J. McDougall


Unknown


Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829:"The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished memb…

Spring - Read by JM

In Spring (Barber version 2)

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Margaret Fairless Barber


Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (…

Song of the Broad-Axe, 4th stanza - Read by JM

In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

Read by J. McDougall


Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

Book VIII - Chapter 7

In Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Read by J. McDougall


Xenophon


The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

The Lake - Read by JM

In The Lake

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Matthew Arnold


Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sag…

Harmonics - Read by JM

In Harmonics

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William Vaughn Moody


William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at …

1.7.IV. The Menads.

In The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille

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Thomas Carlyle


The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, fir…

I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Read by JM

In I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

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Thomas Moore


Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and …

In The Dark - Read by JM

In In The Dark

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James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet"…

Beauty Making - Read by JM

In Beauty Making

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved no…

The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Read by JM

In The Poacher, A Serious Ballad

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Thomas Hood


There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health…

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