Single Author Collections

When Day is Done

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

Selected Poems

by Effie Lee Newsome Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Effie Lee Newsome was a poet from Philadelphia who was also the editor of ‘The Little Page’, a column for children in The Crisis. These poem…

Over The Brazier

by Robert Graves Read by Cavaet 4.9
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time …

The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

by Thomas Lovell Beddoes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at…

Poems for my Children

by Ann Hawkshaw Read by Phil Benson
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…

Canada and Other Poems

by Thomas Frederick Young Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 Garden of Kama

by Laurence Hope Read by Newgatenovelist 4
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…

The Five Nations

by Rudyard Kipling Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…

Emily Brontë

by Emily Brontë Read by Bruce Kachuk 5
The inspirational and visionary poetry of Emily Brontë will live forever in the annals of great works of creative art. Renowned as the …

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)

A Selection from the Lyrical Poems

by Robert Herrick Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…

Foliage

by William Henry Davies Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …

Selected Poems

by Rubén Darío Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…

Rainbows

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 2.8
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …

Leda

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…

Opals

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 3
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …

Day Dreams

by Rudolph Valentino Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…

Fine Clothes to the Jew

by Langston Hughes Read by Dar'Keith Lofton 5
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes. The collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press,…

Selected Works

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Selected Works presents a collection of writings by Voltairine De Cleyre, a prominent American anarchist and a pioneering voice in the early…

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