Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 20
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. ------ This poem was published in booklet form with illustrations in 1897. -...
Incontrovertible Facts - Anonymous
Incontrovertible Facts - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of Incontrovertible Facts by Anonymous. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 23rd, 2008. This poem is a lipogram - so constructed as to exclude all vowels except 'o'....
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works - Phillis WHEATLEY
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works - Phillis WHEATLEY
- Author: Phillis WHEATLEY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. ------ The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston,...
Another Year - Frances Ridley Havergal
Another Year - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 13 readings of Another Year, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for December 28, 2014, to January 3, 2015. - Summary by Esther ben Simonides...
Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor - James MCINTYRE
Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor - James MCINTYRE
- Author: James MCINTYRE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2013. Another poem from Canada's cheese poet, James McIntyre.(Summary by David Lawrence)...
October - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
October - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of October by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2019. ------ Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax,...
Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time. - George Pope MORRIS
Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time. - George Pope MORRIS
- Author: George Pope MORRIS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. ------ George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. He...
Knight - Errant - Madison Cawein
Knight - Errant - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight - Errant by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. ------ Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature,...
The Maid's Lament - Walter Savage Landor
The Maid's Lament - Walter Savage Landor
- Author: Walter Savage Landor
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Maid's Lament by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 25, 2109. ------ Walter Savage Landor was an English writer, poet, and activist. The critical acclaim he received...
Bell Upon Organ - George MacDonald
Bell Upon Organ - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as...
Scots Of The Riverina - Henry Lawson
Scots Of The Riverina - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. "and to run from home was a crime." The story is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. ( David Lawrence)...
The Publisher - C. J. Dennis
The Publisher - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Publisher by C.J. Dennis. This was the weekly poetry project for June 28th, 2009....
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
- Author: John WILMOT
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009....
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - Emily Dickinson
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred...
Chorus of Women - Aristophanes
Chorus of Women - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This poem is from the Thesmophoriazusae; meaning Women...
The Light of Stars - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
The Light of Stars - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Author: William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. He was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But from 1850, his chief occupation...
Woodman, Spare that Tree! - George Pope MORRIS
Woodman, Spare that Tree! - George Pope MORRIS
- Author: George Pope MORRIS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!"[10] His songs...
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
- Author: William Vaughn Moody
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2012. "I really liked this one. It reminded me of Browning's monologues. Absolutely lovely...and dark at the...
I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Thomas Moore
I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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 Summer".Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to...
My Lot - Joseph Horatio Chant
My Lot - Joseph Horatio Chant
- Author: Joseph Horatio Chant
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Joseph Horatio Chant was born at Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, England. His parents moved to Canada in 1840, and settled in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Chant attended schools in the area and upon graduation taught for two years in Cathcart, Burford...
Afternoon in School - the last lesson - D. H. Lawrence
Afternoon in School - the last lesson - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some...
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland - William Wordsworth
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence...
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
NOTES: "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a perpetual affront to his exacting...
The Twilight Hour - Susanna Moodie
The Twilight Hour - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She observed life in...
April - Virna SHEARD
April - Virna SHEARD
- Author: Virna SHEARD
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913) - Summary by David Lawrence...
My True Love - Sir Philip Sidney
My True Love - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of My True Love by Sir Philip Sidney. This was the weekly poetry project for May 24th, 2009....
A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds - Richard CRASHAW
A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds - Richard CRASHAW
- Author: Richard CRASHAW
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds by Richard Crashaw. This was the fortnightly poem for December 7 - December 21, 2014. - Ann Boulais...
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - W. S. Gilbert
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.Gilbert also wrote the Bab...
Four Winds - Sara Teasdale
Four Winds - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society"; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (inaugurated...
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Author: Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Are The Children at Home? by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 5, 2012. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was an American poet, author, and editor. She was...
The Rhodora - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of Snow Song by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 9th, 2007....
Song - Heinrich HEINE
Song - Heinrich HEINE
- Author: Heinrich HEINE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann...
The Five Senses - Arthur MACY
The Five Senses - Arthur MACY
- Author: Arthur MACY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from...
Blessings for Chanukah - Jessie E. SAMPTER
Blessings for Chanukah - Jessie E. SAMPTER
- Author: Jessie E. SAMPTER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Other religions
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Blessings for Chanukah by Jessie E. Sampter. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2018. ------ Jessie Sampter was a Jewish educator, poet, and Zionist pioneer. She was born in New York...
My Madonna - Robert W. Service
My Madonna - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of My Madonna by Robert W. Service. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 12th, 2007....
Hurrahing in Harvest - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hurrahing in Harvest - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his invention of sprung rhythm and use of imagery)...
A Canadian Summer Evening - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
A Canadian Summer Evening - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression if we gave it to be understood that all her time was passed in the writing of either poems or tales. Far from...
Comfort in the Night - Jean Ingelow
Comfort in the Night - Jean Ingelow
- Author: Jean Ingelow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia...
October (Coates version) - Florence Earle COATES
October (Coates version) - Florence Earle COATES
- Author: Florence Earle COATES
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011. Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were...