Lyric - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella - Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella - Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Genre: Anthologies / Lyric / Sonnets
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance. Campanella was a philosopher,...
Poems - Mary Coleridge
Poems - Mary Coleridge
- Author: Mary Coleridge
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist)...
Some Verses - Theodore Wratislaw
Some Verses - Theodore Wratislaw
- Author: Theodore Wratislaw
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection of verse was first published in 1892....
Selected Poems - Elizabeth SIDDAL
Selected Poems - Elizabeth SIDDAL
- Author: Elizabeth SIDDAL
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Elizabeth Siddal was a British poet, artist and model. Her poems were not published in a single volume in her lifetime; this collection brings together fifteen of her verses on themes such as loss and relationships. Summary by Newgatenovelist...
English Stornelli - Augusta WEBSTER
English Stornelli - Augusta WEBSTER
- Author: Augusta WEBSTER
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explore the cyclical stages of life from youth, courtship and parenthood through age and loss. Summary by...
Canzoniere - Dante ALIGHIERI
Canzoniere - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Le Rime (in English, The Rhymes) are the collection of lyric poems written by Dante Alighieri throughout his life. While the rest of Dante's works were prepared by himself for publication, these poems were written by him in letters, as parts of...
Eros and Psyche - Robert Bridges
Eros and Psyche - Robert Bridges
- Author: Robert Bridges
- Genre: Lyric
Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass.The poem is divided into twelve cantos - one for each of the twelve months of the year - which gives the poem a certain,...
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
- Author: Theodore Wratislaw
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection of verse was first published in 1896. (Newgatenovelist)...
A Health - Edward Coote PINKNEY
A Health - Edward Coote PINKNEY
- Author: Edward Coote PINKNEY
- Genre: Poetry / Lyric / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 2012. Edward Coote Pinkney was an American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor. Born in London in 1802,...
The Reaper And The Flowers - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Reaper And The Flowers - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Lyric / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 8, 2012. Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and...
The Crescent Moon - Rabindranath Tagore
The Crescent Moon - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanjali shot him to fame in the west. Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into...
The Convivio - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Convivio - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Lyric / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Medieval
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or "books": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a...
The Wind Among the Reeds - William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Lyric
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. One of his works, 'The wind among the...
Lyrics from the Chinese - Helen WADDELL
Lyrics from the Chinese - Helen WADDELL
- Author: Helen WADDELL
- Genre: Lyric
Thirty-six short Chinese poems from the 12th to the 7th Century B.C. are translated into English by Irish Poet Helen Waddell. Summary by MaryAnn....
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity...
Twenty - Stella Benson
Twenty - Stella Benson
- Author: Stella Benson
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Twenty, Stella Benson’s first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First World War and London’s landscape. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Poems - Elinor Jenkins
Poems - Elinor Jenkins
- Author: Elinor Jenkins
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection published in 1915, incorporates 16 later poems and was published posthumously in 1921. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as the natural world. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences - John Mason Neale
Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences - John Mason Neale
- Author: John Mason Neale
- Genre: Lyric / Christianity - Other
This book is a collection of English translations of medieval Latin hymns. It contains interesting historical and/or liguistic facts about each hymn, some of which are still used in one form or other in the modern Christian church. Note: An asterisk...
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
- Author: Tom Maguire
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Narratives
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was published posthumously in 1895 and includes prefatory commemorative remarks by Keir Hardie and John Bruce Glasier....
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Erotica / Single author / Lyric
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This collection, her first, was originally published in 1901. (summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heavenly" counterparts much later, in response to the dissatisfaction that one of the author's patrons expressed...
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal relationships. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
A Happy New Year and Other Verses - Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
A Happy New Year and Other Verses - Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
- Author: Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
This is a collection of 27 poems, some seasonal to New Years and Christmas, but others on themes of religion, nature and home. (Summary by Larry Wilson)...
The Black Panther - John Hall Wheelock
The Black Panther - John Hall Wheelock
- Author: John Hall Wheelock
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and began to publish his first poems. He later worked for publisher Charles Sribner and Sons finally becoming...
The Voices of the Rivers - Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
The Voices of the Rivers - Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
- Author: Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Nina Salaman was a noted scholar, translator and columnist. As well as translating medieval Hebrew poetry, she was a poet in her own right. This collection, first published in 1910, shows her remarkable grace. ( Newgatenovelist)...
The Lilt of Life - Zora Cross
The Lilt of Life - Zora Cross
- Author: Zora Cross
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Sonnets
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused on her experiences of love, erotic entanglements (notably from a woman’s point of view), and motherhood. Many...
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets - William Stanley Braithwaite
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets - William Stanley Braithwaite
- Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
- Genre: Anthologies / Lyric
Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from Massachusetts, including many from women. The poems range from lytic poems of nature to those of more...
The Hoofs of Pegasus - Maria Letitia Stockett
The Hoofs of Pegasus - Maria Letitia Stockett
- Author: Maria Letitia Stockett
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her poetry she wrote Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History in 1928, and America, First, Fast & Furious . This...
On a Grey Thread - Elsa Gidlow
On a Grey Thread - Elsa Gidlow
- Author: Elsa Gidlow
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her early verse is concise and highly original. (Newgatenovelist)...
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
- Author: Katherine Hale
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections with the background of World War I as a theme, but full of faith and hope. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Love Songs (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
Love Songs (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading writers in the new Romanticism movement. The book of poems, originally published in 1917, saw five additional...
Poesies from Abroad - Florence Henniker
Poesies from Abroad - Florence Henniker
- Author: Florence Henniker
- Genre: Lyric
Florence Henniker was a British poet and novelist whose ‘Poesies from Abroad’ was first published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in September 1889. This collection also includes ‘An Autumn Lyric’, which was first published in May 1889 in the same...
