Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 10
Wedding Poems - Various
Wedding Poems - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!...
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry
This book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Grimm Tales Made Gay - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)...
Short Poetry Collection 114 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 114 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012....
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Poetry / Tragedy
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe. As one of...
Poems of West and East - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
Poems of West and East - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Author: Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Genre: Poetry
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in...
The Star - Jane TAYLOR
The Star - Jane TAYLOR
- Author: Jane TAYLOR
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013....
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued on Dickens' birthday, February 7th 2012, and...
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
- Author: BHARTṚHARI
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy / Ancient
Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires again. It concludes saying how...
Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
Barbara Frietchie - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Poetry
This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)...
Short Poetry Collection 116 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 116 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2013....
Tact - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tact - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the...
Short Poetry Collection 129 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 129 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014....
Short Poetry Collection 186 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 186 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 34 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2018....
The Real Mother Goose - Anonymous
The Real Mother Goose - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
A heartwarming collection of nursery rhymes that will take you back to your childhood! (Summary by Allyson Hester)...
Short Poetry Collection 073 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 073 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008....
Wheels - The First Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The First Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Poetry
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, the poets represented in the series include Nancy Cunard, whose family founded the...
Short Poetry Collection 165 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 165 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2017....
The Song My Paddle Sings - E. Pauline Johnson
The Song My Paddle Sings - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the collection Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson. E. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, was born to the...
The Apology - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Apology - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 2, 2007....
The Siege of Belgrade - Alaric Alexander WATTS
The Siege of Belgrade - Alaric Alexander WATTS
- Author: Alaric Alexander WATTS
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of The Siege of Belgrade by Alaric Alexander Watts, an abecedarian poem that begins each line with the next letter of the alphabet. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 25th,...
Short Poetry Collection 050 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 050 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 050: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
An Apology for Sadness - Anne Lynch BOTTA
An Apology for Sadness - Anne Lynch BOTTA
- Author: Anne Lynch BOTTA
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of An Apology for Sadness by Anne Lynch Botta. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 13, 2011. Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the...
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science) - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful...
To a Dog - John Jay CHAPMAN
To a Dog - John Jay CHAPMAN
- Author: John Jay CHAPMAN
- Genre: Poetry / Elegies & Odes / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To a Dog by John Jay Chapman, published in 1917. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 6th, 2011 to mark this year's festivals of remembrance. Chapman's son Victor was the first American pilot...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - August - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - August - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of August. - Summary by Carolin...
Easter Carols - Louisa Parsons Stone HOPKINS
Easter Carols - Louisa Parsons Stone HOPKINS
- Author: Louisa Parsons Stone HOPKINS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Easter poems by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins. The poems all center around the Easter holiday, in both a religious as well as a more generally festive tone. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 068 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 068 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 068: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers....
Going down Hill on a Bicycle - Henry Charles BEECHING
Going down Hill on a Bicycle - Henry Charles BEECHING
- Author: Henry Charles BEECHING
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers offer you 9 different recordings of Going down Hill on a Bicycle by Henry Charles Beeching. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 25th, 2010....
A Dream within a Dream - Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream within a Dream - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 15th, 2007....
Nocturne - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nocturne - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011. Aldrich attended school in Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his...
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006....
Poems - Frances E. W. HARPER
Poems - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Poetry
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an influential female African American poet. Her poetry often deals with themes of freedom, discrimination, hatred, and injustice. Her poetry remains relevant to this day, and is still widely read. - Summary by...
Little Homer's Slate - Eugene Field
Little Homer's Slate - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Little Homer's Slate by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 6th, 2010....
A Lover's Litanies - Eric MACKAY
A Lover's Litanies - Eric MACKAY
- Author: Eric MACKAY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of ten special love poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Hymns of the Early Church - John BROWNLIE
Hymns of the Early Church - John BROWNLIE
- Author: John BROWNLIE
- Genre: Poetry / Christianity - Other
This collection of hymns have been translated from the poetry to the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year. "This volume is intended for hours of devotion, and the vast storehouse of sacred poetry of the Latin Church has been put...
Summer Morning - John Clare
Summer Morning - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Summer Morning by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9th, 2009....
Vigils - Aline KILMER
Vigils - Aline KILMER
- Author: Aline KILMER
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American poet Aline Murray Kilmer, widow of the poet Joyce Kilmer. These poems have been published several years after Joyce Kilmer's death in 1918 while he was deployed in France, and their daughter Rose's death in...
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
- Author: Apollonius RHODIUS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C.. It is not only the oldest full version of the...
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word "first".The book takes its...
