Poetry

One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

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Teika No Fujiwara


In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…

Selected Ghazals of Ghalib

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Mirza Ghalib


Mirza Ghalib, full name Mirza Asadullah Khan Beig, pen name ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) was a famous Urdu- and Persian-language poet of India. He i…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 01

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William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote i…

唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

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Various


Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

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William Wordsworth


Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 …

Maude

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Christina Rossetti


Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…

Demain dès l’aube (Hommage)

Read by Gilles-Claude Thériault


Victor Hugo


Il y a un an, en février 2009, s’éteignait Romy Riaud. La lecture de ce poème de Victor Hugo, tel un voyage vers le sou…

The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

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Eva March Tappan


This is the first 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 Ta…

Paradise Regain'd (version 2)

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John Milton


Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…

The Rape of Lucrece

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William Shakespeare


The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in …

Our Old Nursery Rhymes

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Alfred Moffat


Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le M…

The Power of Words

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon


Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.

Os Sonetos Completos

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Antero De Quental


Antero de Quental foi a figura central da Geração de 70, responsável pelo início da poesia moderna, a partir da …

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

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Emily Dickinson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…

Hymn Collection 001

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Various


Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.All Glory Laud and Honor - Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans;…

Heroides

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso


The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, …

I'm Nobody

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Emily Dickinson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible…

The Bells

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Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox readers bring you 18 recordings of "The Bells." This was the Fortnightly Poetry selection for January 30 to February 13, …

Love is enough

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William Morris


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013.Wi…

Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion

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Chrétien De Troyes


Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, …

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