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Autumn Fires - Read by JM

In Autumn Fires

Read by J. McDougall


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires, from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses. This was the we…

The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece - Read by JM

In The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

Read by J. McDougall


Sam Walter Foss


Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American ("Bring me men to m…

Don Quixote - Read by JM

In Don Quixote

Read by J. McDougall


Madison Cawein


Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a c…

The Belfry Pigeon - Read by JM

In The Belfry Pigeon

Read by J. McDougall


Nathaniel Parker Willis


Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writer…

September - Read by JM

In September

Read by J. McDougall


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 …

Scenes of the Mind

In The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Read by J. McDougall


Aldous Huxley


Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…

Spring - Read by JM

In Spring (Barber version 2)

Read by J. McDougall


Margaret Fairless Barber


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

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…

Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth - Read by JM

In Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Read by J. McDougall


Arthur Hugh Clough


Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…

Beauty Making - Read by JM

In Beauty Making

Read by J. McDougall


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…

On A Shadow In A Glass - Read by JM

In On A Shadow In A Glass

Read by J. McDougall


Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who …

Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido) - Read by JM

In Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

Read by J. McDougall


James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…

Spring Song of the Swallow - Read by JM

In Spring Song of the Swallow

Read by J. McDougall


Marietta Holley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wi…

A Song of Autumn - Read by JM

In A Song of Autumn

Read by J. McDougall


Adam Lindsay Gordon


Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. - Summary by Wikipedia

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…

Lights - Read by JM

In Lights

Read by J. McDougall


Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. He…

Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own - Read by JM

In Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Read by J. McDougall


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 Autumn Grass - read by JM

In In the Autumn Grass

Read by J. McDougall


Hamlin Garland


LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is…

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. …