Poetry
The Glugs of Gosh
Read by Chris Goringe
C. J. Dennis
First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…
The Jingle Book
Read by Betsie Bush
Carolyn Wells
A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.
The Consolation
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Anne Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.
Love-Songs of Childhood
Read by Squid Varilekova
Eugene Field
This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008.
Growing Old
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Matthew Arnold
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011.Mat…
The Wright Brothers
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Fred Kelly
This is a biography of the Wright Brothers as told by the American humorist and newspaperman Fred Kelly, a personal friend of the Wrights. I…
Tristram and Iseult
Read by Nathan
Matthew Arnold
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. Th…
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…
A Flying Trip Around the World
Read by Holly Jenson
Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charles Dickens and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.
The Presence of Love
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyám
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish scholar, author and nationalist politician. In 1889 his prose translations of 466 quatrain…
Metamorphoses
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…
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand?
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry p…
Short Poetry Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for M…
A Child's Garden of Verses
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern…
Cornhuskers
Read by Betsie Bush
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.