Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
The Song of the Chattahoochee - Sidney Lanier
The Song of the Chattahoochee - Sidney Lanier
- Author: Sidney Lanier
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave...
Up The Line - Will Carleton
Up The Line - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010....
The Widow's House - Sarah Orne Jewett
The Widow's House - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Widows' House by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 11, 2012. Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color...
A Valentine - Lewis Carroll
A Valentine - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)...
Beautiful Soup - Lewis Carroll
Beautiful Soup - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 1st, 2007....
Insects - John Clare
Insects - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / 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...
The Wishing Bridge - John Greenleaf Whittier
The Wishing Bridge - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------ John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of...
The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Thomas Hood
The Poacher, A Serious Ballad - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little...
At Home From Church - Sarah Orne Jewett
At Home From Church - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At Home From Church by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 19, 2011. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called "an uncommon feeling for...
The Camper - E. Pauline Johnson
The Camper - 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...
Conversion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Conversion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated "the grand passion"—love. A few of those are of an extremely fiery character....
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of When Stars Are in the Quiet Sky by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 16th, 2008....
Jazz Fantasia - Carl Sandburg
Jazz Fantasia - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is central, but not so clearly defined, so we had to play around and improvise. Every reading is unique! (Summary by...
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending - Emily Brontë
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending by Emily Brontë. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 6th, 2008....
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler - Christopher SMART
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler - Christopher SMART
- Author: Christopher SMART
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Epistle to Mrs. Tyler by Christopher Smart. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 25, 2012. Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771), also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack...
A Boy's Song - James HOGG
A Boy's Song - James HOGG
- Author: James HOGG
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Boy's Song by James Hogg. This was the weekly poetry project for April 26th, 2009....
At Sunrise - Bliss Carman
At Sunrise - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them all—his place (and time cannot but confirm and justify the assertion) is among those men whose poetry is the...
The Disagreeable Man - W. S. Gilbert
The Disagreeable Man - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 10, 2012. The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic...
On Hearing the Messiah - William Lisle BOWLES
On Hearing the Messiah - William Lisle BOWLES
- Author: William Lisle BOWLES
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen...
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
- Author: Samuel Francis SMITH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of America by Samuel Francis Smith. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 4th, 2010....
The Taxi - Amy Lowell
The Taxi - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
Day and NIght - Rupert Brooke
Day and NIght - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was "vivid". This vitality, though manifold in...
Simple Gifts - Joseph BRACKETT
Simple Gifts - Joseph BRACKETT
- Author: Joseph BRACKETT
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010. Several Shaker manuscripts indicate that this is a "Dancing Song" or a "Quick Dance." The references to "turning"...
A Gift - Amy Lowell
A Gift - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Though she sometimes wrote sonnets, Lowell was an early adherent to the "free verse" method of...
Love is enough - William Morris
Love is enough - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013. William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the...
The Flag and the Faithful - William J. LAMPTON
The Flag and the Faithful - William J. LAMPTON
- Author: William J. LAMPTON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013. William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of...
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012. This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems...
After Long Grief - Madison Cawein
After Long Grief - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus...
He’d Nothing but His Violin - Mary Kyle DALLAS
He’d Nothing but His Violin - Mary Kyle DALLAS
- Author: Mary Kyle DALLAS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of He'd Nothing but His Violin by Mary Kyle Dallas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 10, 2013. According to an article in the New York Times, Mary Kyle Dallas was born in Philadelphia, PA and...
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 29th, 2007....
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
- Author: Marietta Holley
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! - Summary by Rachel...
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Author: John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Genre: Poetry / Sonnets / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Sonnet on a Wet Summer" by John Codrington Bampfield. This was the weekly poem for the week of July 1, 2012....
The Stone - Ivan Turgenev
The Stone - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.This taken from his DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946) She...
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
Winter Stars - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. - Summary by David Lawrence...
For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons - E. Nesbit
For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013. Edith Nesbit reminds us of the magic - and brevity - of childhood....
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006....
Sunset in the Tropics - James Weldon Johnson
Sunset in the Tropics - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of "Sunset in the Tropics." This is the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 10, 2014. The author of this poem, James Weldon Johnson, served as U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, was an early leader...
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. Dr. Henry van Dyke was an American author, lecturer, ambassador and pastor. He was in charge of the committee...
The Road Builders - Voltairine de Cleyre
The Road Builders - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 29th, 2008....
Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009....