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AFTER THE SEA-SHIP

In Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass

Read by Alan Mapstone


Walt Whitman


Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…

The Baker

In A Rough Shaking

Read by Alan Schulte


George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los - Read by AAM

In The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los

Read by Alan Mapstone


William Blake


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los by William Blake.This was the Weekly Poe…

Grace Darling

In Canada and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Frederick Young


From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…

The Send-off

In Poems (Version 2)

Read by Alan Mapstone


Wilfred Owen


The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…

Acrostic to Warden and Mrs. E. G. Coffin by H. P. McKnight

In Prison Poetry

Read by Alan Mapstone


Various


A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh

Chapter 8: Bishop Hall and George Sandys

In England's Antiphon

Read by Alan Mapstone


George MacDonald


"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…

Connecticut

In The Poetical Works

Read by Alan Mapstone


Fitz-Greene Halleck


Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in the old Connecticut coastal town of Guildford. At age 21 he moved to New York where he worked for nearly 4 d…

Part 2 Scene 6

In Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

Point Iroquois

In Echoes of the Forest

Read by Alan Mapstone


William Edgar Brown


Twenty-six stories of first nations' origin rendered in English in verse. The author's dedication claims the stories "help us to unders…

Part 4. Mohammed (Mahomet) and the Caliphate

In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History

Read by Alan Mapstone


Karl Ploetz


The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …

The Talisman

In Short Poetry Collection 251

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


This is a collection of 39 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during April 2024.

Sonnets 46-50

In Modern Love

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Meredith


This is a 50-poem sequence of 16-line sonnets, divided into 10 sections. It has been called "a novelette in sonnet form". The auth…

'Bobs'

In Barrack-Room Ballads

Read by Alan Mapstone


Rudyard Kipling


Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…

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