Poetry

Expositions on the Book of Psalms

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These sermons on the Psalms of the Holy Prophet and King David are as poetic as the Psalms themselves. They are well-suited for inspirationa…

Lamentations

by American Standard Version Read by Sam Stinson 4.9
Lamentations is a profound exploration of grief and loss, capturing the sorrow of a people devastated by destruction. Traditionally read dur…

Lamentations

by King James Version Read by Mark Penfold 4.4
The Book of Lamentations is a series of mournful poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah as he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah lame…

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stori…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…

Robert Burns

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Robert Burns, the national bard (poet) of Scotland was born on the 25th January, 1759. Scotland and all Burns fans the world over, including…

Drum-Taps

by Walt Whitman Read by Expatriate 4.6
Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response …

Satires

by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …

Best Way to Read a Book

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
LibriVox readers present the third collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Containing 20 parts. - William Shakespeare (April 26, …

The World's Best Poetry

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…

Metamorphoses

by Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…

The Recluse

by William Wordsworth Read by Audio Andrea 4.8
In the prefatory advertisement to the First Edition of the Prelude, 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to the…

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

by Herman Melville Read by Clark University 4.7
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…

Birches

by Robert Frost Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.

Short Poetry Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 22 public-domain poems.

Don Juan

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Peter Gallagher 4.9
Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…

Songs of a Sourdough

by Robert W. Service Read by Phil Benson 4.7
Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…

Long Poems Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 006: a collection of 17 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens

by Wallace Stevens Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) 4.7
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…

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