Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
Sea Fever - John Masefield
Sea Fever - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 different recordings of Sea Fever by John Masefield. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 16th, 2007....
To the River - Edgar Allan Poe
To the River - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of To the River by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2019. ------ This Weekly Poem is taken from the Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1883)...
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat", the "single most...
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Song of the Kicking Horse by Bliss Carman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 26th, 2010....
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
Coyote - Bret Harte
Coyote - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner, school-teacher, express messenger,...
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now, real beauty is inside. This was...
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of The Miller's Daughter by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 13th, 2008....
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of...
My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you eleven readings of My Doves, by Louisa May Alcott. This was the fortnightly poem for December 21, 2014 - January 4, 2015 - Summary by Rachel...
The Army of Death - Charles Hamilton Sorley
The Army of Death - Charles Hamilton Sorley
- Author: Charles Hamilton Sorley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Captain Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. The inscription was written by Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." This is regarded as one of...
Mountain Song - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Mountain Song - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine recordings of "Mountain Song” by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The Weekly Poem for August 31, 2014 takes us up to the mountain heights of Norway. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
The Priest's Brother - Dora Sigerson Shorter
The Priest's Brother - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (née Varian),...
A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day - John Donne
A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day by John Donne. This was the fortnightly poetry project for winter solstice 2008....
The Garden of Love - William Blake
The Garden of Love - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.He was considered mad by contemporaries...
The Willows - Bret Harte
The Willows - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe. Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career...
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013....
To The Fighting Weak - Margaret Steele Anderson
To The Fighting Weak - Margaret Steele Anderson
- Author: Margaret Steele Anderson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses at Wellesley College. From 1901 Miss Anderson was Literary Editor of the `Evening Post' of Louisville,...
The Homing Bee - E. Pauline Johnson
The Homing Bee - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by...
Christy and The Pipers - Jean McKishnie Blewett
Christy and The Pipers - Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Author: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. ------ This poem, set in Scotland, tells of a woman's reaction to the Pipes . ( David...
When Your Pants Begin To Go - Henry Lawson
When Your Pants Begin To Go - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest...
Red Maples - Sara Teasdale
Red Maples - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion ....
The Wine - Sara Teasdale
The Wine - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same...
To His Mistress Going to Bed - John Donne
To His Mistress Going to Bed - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin...
Leaves - Sara Teasdale
Leaves - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the arrival of night becomes...
War Is Kind - Stephen Crane
War Is Kind - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the human costs of war, both the...
The Shame of Going Back - Henry Lawson
The Shame of Going Back - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest...
The Waste Land (version 2) - T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land (version 2) - T. S. Eliot
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot....
The First Snow-Fall - James Russell Lowell
The First Snow-Fall - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of The First Snow Fall by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 16th, 2007. Read by Caitlin Teresa, Carolyn Frances, Clarica, Esther, Jc Guan, Katie...
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led...
The Ruined Maid - Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The...
Men of Harlech - Talhaiarn
Men of Harlech - Talhaiarn
- Author: Talhaiarn
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. "Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a song and military march which is traditionally said to...
The Jabberwocky of Authors - Harry Persons Taber
The Jabberwocky of Authors - Harry Persons Taber
- Author: Harry Persons Taber
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of The Jabberwocky of Authors by Harry Persons Taber. This parody of Carroll's Jabberwocky consists almost entirely of authors' names. See how many you can spot! This was the weekly poetry...
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 different recordings of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 18th, 2008....
Beauty Making - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty Making - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state...
The Beecher Beached - John B. Tabb
The Beecher Beached - John B. Tabb
- Author: John B. Tabb
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Father John Banister Tabb was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English. Father Tabb (as he was commonly known) was widely published in popular and prestigious magazines of the day, including Harper's Monthly, The Atlantic...
To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World - William Cavendish
To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World - William Cavendish
- Author: William Cavendish
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World by William Cavendish. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 11, 2018. ------ Margaret Cavendish's book, "Blazing World" (in the LV...
What The Pine Trees Said - Edith M. Thomas
What The Pine Trees Said - Edith M. Thomas
- Author: Edith M. Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city. (Wikipedia)...
Winter (Stevenson) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Winter (Stevenson) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Nature
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22nd, 2009....
Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare
Where the Bee Sucks - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2012. Where the Bee Sucks is a song performed by Ariel, an airy spirit, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The...
