Single Author Collections
My Little Book of Prayer
Read by KevinS
Muriel Strode
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS
Enoch Arden
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the poem "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic narrative of the enduring power of love in the face of insurmountable odds, is found a …
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Paul Bewsher
Paul Bewsher writes poems of a wartime aviator from his heart and soul. His heart longs for an end to the perils of war and the forced destr…
Color
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
An Isle in the Water
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Katharine Tynan Hinkson
'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist. An Isle in the Water is a collection of fifteen w…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
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Bliss Carman
In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great…
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse
Read by InTheDesert
Philip Doddridge
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Alba…
If I May (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2
Read by ShrimpPhish
E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
Infelicia
Read by Newgatenovelist
Adah Isaacs Menken
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous a…
Stories and Pictures
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I. L. Peretz
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
Verses
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Hilaire Belloc
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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John Kendrick Bangs
This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted…
Harlem Shadows
Read by Denise Ray
Claude Mckay
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
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Richard Connell
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Golden Windmill and Other Stories
Read by MichaelMaggs
Stacy Aumonier
In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English stor…
Mother and Daughter
Read by Newgatenovelist
Augusta Webster
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)
Read by Newgatenovelist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)
In the Net of the Stars
Read by Nemo
F. S. Flint
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…