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When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd, 2010....
The Divine Companion - James Allen
The Divine Companion - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / *Non-fiction
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In the introduction Lily Allen writes: "It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any...
Sestinas - Various
Sestinas - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Strophes of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
Strophes of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám's quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner's collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls "Strophes." The collection is divided into eleven books,...
Short Poetry Collection 007 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 007: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Snowman in the Yard - Joyce KILMER
The Snowman in the Yard - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Snowman in the Yard by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 26, 2012. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor....
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry / Biography & Autobiography
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it for the rest of his life. The...
Verses on a Young Lady - Tobias Smollett
Verses on a Young Lady - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010. Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was...
Poems, 1914-1919 - Maurice Baring
Poems, 1914-1919 - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly about his travels in Russia. The other part of the collection is made up of poetry concerning World War I,...
What the Bullet Sang - Bret Harte
What the Bullet Sang - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of What the Bullet sang by Bret Harte. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 18th, 2010....
Short Poetry Collection 148 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 148 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015....
The Dried-up Fountain - Robert LEIGHTON
The Dried-up Fountain - Robert LEIGHTON
- Author: Robert LEIGHTON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. This poem is taken from A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed....
Music On Christmas Morning - Anne Brontë
Music On Christmas Morning - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Music On Christmas Morning by Anne Bronte.Published in the 1846 collection Poems By Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell under Anne's nom de plume 'Acton Bell'. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for...
Lines - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009....
Miracles - Walt Whitman
Miracles - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 4th, 2007....
Long Poems Collection 001 - Various
Long Poems Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox's Long Poems Collection 001: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake)...
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved - Thomas Moore
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry Valentine's project for February 13, 2011. Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer,...
Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Poetry / Bibles / King James Version
The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 poems "express virtually the full range of Israel's religious faith." They each have a poetic character with...
Give All To Love - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give All To Love - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 17th, 2009....
The Railway Train - Emily Dickinson
The Railway Train - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 28, 2011. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were...
Rhymes For The Young Folk - William ALLINGHAM
Rhymes For The Young Folk - William ALLINGHAM
- Author: William ALLINGHAM
- Genre: Poetry
Popular for his simple, delicate poetry for children, this Irishman wrote these verses for his three children, Gerald, Eva and Henry, and others like them. Typically, they touch on fairies and nature. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Poetry
This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and others named and unnamed provide a fast-paced, almost maniacal, romp to find the ellusive Snark. In the...
The Lovers - Emily Dickinson
The Lovers - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27, 2012. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the...
The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular, beating rhythm, the Song of Hiawatha has often been parodied, but in truth, it is a powerful, emotional...
The Toys - Coventry PATMORE
The Toys - Coventry PATMORE
- Author: Coventry PATMORE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Toys by Coventry Patmore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 25th, 2010....
Silver Filigree - Elinor Wylie
Silver Filigree - Elinor Wylie
- Author: Elinor Wylie
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Silver Filigree by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 27, 2011....
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - December - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - December - 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 December. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 002 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 22 public-domain poems....
Old Chants - Walt Whitman
Old Chants - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition...
Vitai Lampada - Sir Henry NEWBOLT
Vitai Lampada - Sir Henry NEWBOLT
- Author: Sir Henry NEWBOLT
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt. 'Vitai lampada' is a quotation from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by Lucretius and literally means 'The torch of life.' This was the Weekly Poetry...
More Goops and How Not to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
More Goops and How Not to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the...
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Last Buccaneer - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 4th, 2009....
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- Genre: Poetry
The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning...
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady...
Short Poetry Collection 105 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 105 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012....
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 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...
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Song by Aphra Behn. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 6th, 2007....
Long Poems Collection 002 - Various
Long Poems Collection 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 002: a collection of 7 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length....
Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / Epics
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is...
A Treatise of Religion - Fulke GREVILLE
A Treatise of Religion - Fulke GREVILLE
- Author: Fulke GREVILLE
- Genre: Poetry / Religion
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocrisy. (Summary by Michael Armenta)...
