Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 11
One and Two - Will Carleton
One and Two - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013.Read in English by Alan Weyman; CaprishaPage; Drew Johnson; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garrett Fitzgerald; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia Niedermaier; John Sercel; Jacob Paul Starr;...
Not Yet my Soul - Robert Louis Stevenson
Not Yet my Soul - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet,...
Summer Evening - John Clare
Summer Evening - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Summer Evening by John Clare. This was the weekly poetry project for July 26th, 2009....
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 4th, 2009....
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In honor of Winter Solstice 2014, LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen readings of Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale. This is the weekly poetry reading for December 21, 2014....
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing - Walt Whitman
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2013. This poem is taken from Book 4 of Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which Whitman would...
Twilight Voices - William ALLINGHAM
Twilight Voices - William ALLINGHAM
- Author: William ALLINGHAM
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. (Summary by David Lawrence)...
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Song by Aphra Behn. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 6th, 2007....
The Retired Cat - William Cowper
The Retired Cat - William Cowper
- Author: William Cowper
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of...
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011. Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic...
The Whale - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Whale - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F....
BOOH - Eugene Field
BOOH - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays....
Uphill - Christina ROSSETTI
Uphill - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the Bible, folk tales and the lives of...
The Dead Joke and The Funny Man - James Whitcomb Riley
The Dead Joke and The Funny Man - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. As a poet, Riley achieved an...
A Thunder-Storm - Emily Dickinson
A Thunder-Storm - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Thunder-Storm by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2019. ------ A tribute to autumn storms. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Cheese Curd for Bait - James MCINTYRE
Cheese Curd for Bait - James MCINTYRE
- Author: James MCINTYRE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Cheese Curd for Bait by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 23, 2012. James McIntyre, born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1841. He finally settled in Ingersoll (a town in...
Nocturne: In Anjou - Bliss Carman
Nocturne: In Anjou - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Nocturne: In Anjou by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 10, 2019. ------ Richard Hovey collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of...
The Ship of Earth - Sidney Lanier
The Ship of Earth - Sidney Lanier
- Author: Sidney Lanier
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and sweet, and most sympathetic...
Christmas Fancies - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christmas Fancies - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander...
A Thunderstorm at Night - Eric MACKAY
A Thunderstorm at Night - Eric MACKAY
- Author: Eric MACKAY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
George Eric Mackay was an English minor poet, now remembered as the sponging half-brother of Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist. Mackay and Corelli, born Mary Mackay, were the children of Charles Mackay, by different mothers.As a poet he is...
God Bless Us Everyone - James Whitcomb Riley
God Bless Us Everyone - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or...
Love in a Cottage - Nathaniel Parker Willis
Love in a Cottage - Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 24th, 2010....
My Heart and Lute - Thomas Moore
My Heart and Lute - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 2010 "My Heart and Lute" is a song/poem by Thomas Moore.In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice...
A Parting Guest - James Whitcomb Riley
A Parting Guest - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known...
Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings - Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings - Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
- Author: Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings by Beatrice Bradshaw Brown. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 20, 2019. ------ A poetic summary of a day in the life of two children in Paris. (D Lawrence)...
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011. Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to...
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
- Author: Billy MORTIMER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Music
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by TriciaG)...
A Christmas Carmen - John Greenleaf Whittier
A Christmas Carmen - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, Whittier was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. - Summary by Wikipedia...
At the Club - Richard HOVEY
At the Club - Richard HOVEY
- Author: Richard HOVEY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At the Club by Richard Hovey. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 3, 2013. Richard Hovey was an American poet. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1885, he is known in part for penning the...
Travels by the Fireside - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Travels by the Fireside - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric...
Life (Raleigh Version) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
Life (Raleigh Version) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Author: Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Life by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25th, 2010....
The Workman's Dream - Edgar A. GUEST
The Workman's Dream - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's...
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
- Author: Fay Inchfawn
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her inspiration for the bright promise of...
The Flood - John Clare
The Flood - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th...
Armistice - Sophie JEWETT
Armistice - Sophie JEWETT
- Author: Sophie JEWETT
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Armistice by Sophie Jewett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 1st, 2008....
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia....
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird...
Winter Sport - Unknown
Winter Sport - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 13 readings of Winter Sport, by an unknown author. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 23 - 30, 2014. - Summary by Rachel...
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 18 recordings of "The Bells." This was the Fortnightly Poetry selection for January 30 to February 13, 2011. "The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in...