Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 14
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011. Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic...
Short Poetry Collection 180 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 180 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018....
Songs of a Sourdough - Robert W. Service
Songs of a Sourdough - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry
Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston,...
The Faerie Queene Book 1 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 1 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse".The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser...
Andromeda, and Other Poems - Charles Kingsley
Andromeda, and Other Poems - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of the most famous poems of Charles Kingsley. Kingsley was an extremely versatile man, Wikipedia lists him as "broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is...
From Queen's Gardens - Christina ROSSETTI
From Queen's Gardens - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry
This is the fourth part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 47 poems by Christina Rossetti. - Summary by Carolin...
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
- Author: Robert COPLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Introduction - This is a collection of ten comic pieces from the 16th century and earlier, as compiled and edited by Frederick Furnivall for private circulation in 1871. Only the first is by Copland. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)...
IF - Rudyard Kipling
IF - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Poetry
This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throughout life, and the poem has garnered much attention in popular culture. The 4 stanzas each deal with...
Short Poetry Collection 167 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 167 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017....
Yesterdays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Yesterdays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of early poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. As much of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poetry, this volume also conveys a number of different emotions in the different poems. Ms Wilcox herself suggests the alternative title "Ghosts of old dreams"...
Love in a Cottage - Nathaniel Parker Willis
Love in a Cottage - Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 24th, 2010....
Suffrage Songs and Verses - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Suffrage Songs and Verses - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Poetry
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most prominent American suffragists, was not only known as an accomplished author of fiction and non-fiction, but also her poetry remains worth reading until today. - Summary by Carolin...
My Heart and Lute - Thomas Moore
My Heart and Lute - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 2010 "My Heart and Lute" is a song/poem by Thomas Moore.In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice...
A Parting Guest - James Whitcomb Riley
A Parting Guest - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known...
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011. Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to...
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
- Author: Anne Wales ABBOT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be...
Short Poetry Collection 093 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 093 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of December 2010....
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
- Author: Billy MORTIMER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Music
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by TriciaG)...
The Dixie Book of Days - Page ANDREWS
The Dixie Book of Days - Page ANDREWS
- Author: Page ANDREWS
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for their own enjoyment or peace of mind, not necessarily for publication. (Summary by Bill Boerst)...
Travels by the Fireside - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Travels by the Fireside - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric...
Life (Raleigh Version) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
Life (Raleigh Version) - Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Author: Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Life by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25th, 2010....
The Sunlit Hours - Emile VERHAEREN
The Sunlit Hours - Emile VERHAEREN
- Author: Emile VERHAEREN
- Genre: Poetry
The Sunlit Hours [Les Heures Claires] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of love. - Summary by Carolin...
The Kingdom of Love - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Kingdom of Love - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. - Summary by Carolin...
Rebel Verses - Bernard GILBERT
Rebel Verses - Bernard GILBERT
- Author: Bernard GILBERT
- Genre: Poetry
Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful place among our foremost...
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
- Author: Fay Inchfawn
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her inspiration for the bright promise of...
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Oscar Wilde, containing some of his rather famous longer poetry in the first part, and a section of sonnets in the second part of the book. - Summary by Carolin...
By the Sea, and Other Verses - Hannah Lavinia BAILY
By the Sea, and Other Verses - Hannah Lavinia BAILY
- Author: Hannah Lavinia BAILY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poetry by Hannah Lavinia Baily. They describe a number of different settings, prominently the sea in the titular poem, and bring in contemporary as well as mythical themes. - Summary by Carolin...
From Distant Shores - Mary Electa ADAMS
From Distant Shores - Mary Electa ADAMS
- Author: Mary Electa ADAMS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women's rights activist and educator Mary Adams. - Summary by Carolin...
Maude - Christina ROSSETTI
Maude - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Religious Fiction
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores...
Short Poetry Collection 182 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 182 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2018....
Armistice - Sophie JEWETT
Armistice - Sophie JEWETT
- Author: Sophie JEWETT
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Armistice by Sophie Jewett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 1st, 2008....
Short Poetry Collection 069 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 069 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 069: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers....
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia....
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird...
Short Poetry Collection 108 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 108 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012....
Metamorphoses - Publius
Metamorphoses - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythological...
Suppressed Poems - Friedrich Schiller
Suppressed Poems - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by German classical poet Friedrich Schiller. These poems have all been suppressed in the past for different reasons. Some of these reasons are evident, others less so. All of the poems are very interesting to read and...
Short Poetry Collection 087 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 087 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2010....
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)...
