Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 12
The Window on the Hill - Madison Cawein
The Window on the Hill - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012. Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana...
The House Where We Were Wed - Will Carleton
The House Where We Were Wed - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The House Where We Were Wed by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009....
Home Thoughts From Abroad - Robert Browning
Home Thoughts From Abroad - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning. This was the weekly poetry project for March 29th, 2009....
Short Poetry Collection 123 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 123 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013....
The Indian Corn Planter - E. Pauline Johnson
The Indian Corn Planter - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 29, 2012. "But in the writings of one poet alone I came upon a new note—the note of the Red Man's Canada. This...
Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich - Various
Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture some wonderful poems ‘on location’ - in the churchyard of St Nicholas’, Deptford, and the Greenwich Foot...
37 American Poems - Various
37 American Poems - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed...
Poet To His Love - Maxwell Bodenheim
Poet To His Love - Maxwell Bodenheim
- Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day.(Summary by Annie Coleman)...
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z - Various
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Reference
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the English alphabet in rime--so that a child may not become a dunce! The Anti Slavery Alphabet - a book prepared...
Short Poetry Collection 053 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Adam and Eve - John Milton
Adam and Eve - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / Epics / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was...
A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose - Various
A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of Australian writing from the public domain....
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
- Author: Maria W. STEWART
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879, shortly before her...
The Littlest One - His Book - Marion St. John Webb
The Littlest One - His Book - Marion St. John Webb
- Author: Marion St. John Webb
- Genre: Poetry
A delightful collection of humorous childrens' verse, describing the life and feelings of a little boy. - Summary by Caro Davy...
Poems: Series One - Emily Dickinson
Poems: Series One - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Nature
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Miss Emily Dickinson. It is broken into four parts: Life, Love, Nature, and Time...
Through All The Years - J. W. FOLEY
Through All The Years - J. W. FOLEY
- Author: J. W. FOLEY
- Genre: Poetry
Here is a sweet little poem to touch your heart and share with your best friends. The words are heartfelt, simple and trip off the tongue in sing-song fashion. The challenge becomes, as my English teacher and the poetry pundits oft complain of, how...
The Village and The Library - George CRABBE
The Village and The Library - George CRABBE
- Author: George CRABBE
- Genre: Poetry
The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a priest and surgeon having been privy to so much of actual, rather than ideal, life. The Library is his...
Don Juan, Canto 1 - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Don Juan, Canto 1 - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Poetry
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England appeared, anonymously, in July...
Christmas Bells - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 24th, 2006....
The Dreamers and Other Poems - Theodosia GARRISON
The Dreamers and Other Poems - Theodosia GARRISON
- Author: Theodosia GARRISON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by New Jersey poet Theodosia Garrison. Ms. Garrison was a friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's, and attained a high level of popularity during her life time. - Summary by Carolin...
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell - John Keats
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 11th, 2008....
The Jingle Book - Carolyn Wells
The Jingle Book - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children....
An Old Man's Thought of School - Walt Whitman
An Old Man's Thought of School - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 12, 2012. Whitman claimed that after years of competing for "the usual rewards", he determined to...
The Call - Rupert Brooke
The Call - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Call by Rupert Brooke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013....
Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 3, September 1898 - Various
Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 3, September 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
The Miracle, and Other Poems - Virna SHEARD
The Miracle, and Other Poems - Virna SHEARD
- Author: Virna SHEARD
- Genre: Poetry
This is the only volume of poetry by Canadian author Virna Sheard. In this volume, Ms Sheard shares all kinds of different emotions, and some stories. As the Boston Globe put it, "A study of The Miracle and Other Poems shows at once that the author...
Short Poetry Collection 091 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 091 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010....
Before Edgehill Fight - Rudyard Kipling
Before Edgehill Fight - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019. ------ A real and down to earth poem about a the Battle of Edgehill. - Summary by Campbell Schelp...
Promises Like Pie-Crust - Christina ROSSETTI
Promises Like Pie-Crust - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Promises Like Pie-Crust by Christina Rossetti. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 3rd, 2008....
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to the fullest. (Summary by Jon Sindell)...
Cana - James Freeman CLARKE
Cana - James Freeman CLARKE
- Author: James Freeman CLARKE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14th, 2010. Trivia: After hearing the song "John Brown's Body", Clarke...
Short Poetry Collection 191 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 191 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2019....
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Author: Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry / Satire
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd...
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories
This is a collection of Christmas short stories and poems by Eugene Field, published in 1912. The stories beautifully evoke an old-fashioned spirit of Christmas, each presenting a different angle of this special holiday. - Summary by Carolin...
The Trenches - Frederic MANNING
The Trenches - Frederic MANNING
- Author: Frederic MANNING
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Trenches by Frederic Manning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 30, 2011 to mark this year's festivals of remembrance. Manning was an Australian poet living in England at the...
Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Nature
Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex...
Trees and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
Trees and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Poetry
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree;A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...".Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and enjoyed those famous words which begin Kilmer's...
Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2 - John Clare
Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2 - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry
John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' was published in 1820. His...
Dirge for Two Veterans - Walt Whitman
Dirge for Two Veterans - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 27th, 2007 (summary by Karen...
