Poetry
Simple Gifts
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Joseph Brackett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.Several…
Long Poems Collection 004
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Various
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
Love's Young Dream
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 201…
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
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Walter Savage Landor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
There's a certain slant of light
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Emily Dickinson
In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence
Autumn's Gold
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the…
Solitude (Wilcox)
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enou…
Oxford Poetry 1915
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Various
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
The Forest
Read by Sheldon Greaves
Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
Short Poetry Collection 119
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Walt Whitman
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.
The Little Star
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Unknown
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star, author unknown, which parodies the previous week's children's favourite The …
Men I'm Not Married To (Poem)
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Dorothy Parker
A saucy little poem commenting upon all men that Ms. Parker didn't marry, perhaps implying (it's a bit ambiguous) that upon marrying, the hu…
The Explanation
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 1st, 2009…
A Burnt Ship
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.
The First Jasmines
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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 World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
Poetry Miscellany 01
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Various
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…
The Hillside Thaw
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.
Songs of Sea and Sail
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Thomas Fleming Day
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…