Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
The Cremation of Sam McGee - Robert W. Service
The Cremation of Sam McGee - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service....
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
- Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
- Genre: Poetry / Ancient / Life Sciences
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Epicurean philosophy to the Roman audience. Among digressions about the importance of philosophy in men's life...
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed - Amy Lowell
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914."Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed...
In Harmony with Nature - Matthew Arnold
In Harmony with Nature - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of In Harmony with Nature. by Matthew Arnold. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 8, 2012. Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 2, August 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 2, August 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...
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay....
Short Poetry Collection 149 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 149 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015....
Child Songs of Cheer - Evaleen Stein
Child Songs of Cheer - Evaleen Stein
- Author: Evaleen Stein
- Genre: Poetry
This is a little volume of children's poetry by Indiana poet Evaleen Stein. The poems in this volume concern really anything that could be fun for children, from picking flowers to learning things in school to sledding in the winter. - Summary by...
Pillow and Stone - Abram S. Isaacs
Pillow and Stone - Abram S. Isaacs
- Author: Abram S. Isaacs
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Pillow and Stone by Abram S. Isaacs. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24, 2011. Abram S. Isaacs (1851-1920) was an American rabbi, author, and professor. Isaacs received his education at the...
Aspects Of Love - An Anthology - Undefined
Aspects Of Love - An Anthology - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Erotica / Poetry
Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love - though one of the "poets" represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads off this set of erotic...
Introducing Irony - Maxwell Bodenheim
Introducing Irony - Maxwell Bodenheim
- Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
- Genre: Poetry
Subtitled 'A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems', this collection reads years ahead of its time. Set mainly in Jazz Age New York City, the poems and tales are a series of profiles of people in seedier parts of town, along with bizarre love songs...
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized...
Misrepresentative Men - Harry Graham
Misrepresentative Men - Harry Graham
- Author: Harry Graham
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Harry Graham. Graham was known for his satirical poetry, and this volume is a great example of his art. In this volume, Graham charicatures several famous historical or legendary personages, and allows himself some...
Song of the Soldiers' Wives - Thomas Hardy
Song of the Soldiers' Wives - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week starting at 5 August 2012. (Summary...
Sea Fever - John Masefield
Sea Fever - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 different recordings of Sea Fever by John Masefield. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 16th, 2007....
From Dreamland Sent - Lilian Whiting
From Dreamland Sent - Lilian Whiting
- Author: Lilian Whiting
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that are a typical example of American poetry of the end of the 19th century. - Summary by Carolin...
The Speaking Voice - Katherine Jewell Everts
The Speaking Voice - Katherine Jewell Everts
- Author: Katherine Jewell Everts
- Genre: Poetry / Literary Collections / Self-Help
From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training which is the result of a deliberate effort to simplify and condense, for general use, the principles which are...
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat", the "single most...
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Song of the Kicking Horse by Bliss Carman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 26th, 2010....
Poems of William Blake - William Blake
Poems of William Blake - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that...
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean...
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
Short Poetry Collection 172 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 172 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017....
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of The Miller's Daughter by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 13th, 2008....
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, to celebrate Halloween. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 29th, 2006....
Sonnets from the Patagonian: The Street of Little Hotels - Donald Evans
Sonnets from the Patagonian: The Street of Little Hotels - Donald Evans
- Author: Donald Evans
- Genre: Poetry
Sonnets from The Patagonian is a collection of sonnets and the first work published by the short-lived Claire Marie press. Each sonnet is a portrait of someone Evans knows from the Modernist scene just beginning to coalesce in Greenwich Village, and...
Poetic Duets - Various
Poetic Duets - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This selection of poems has many favourites from authors such as Edward Lear and Robert Browning, as well as less well known authors. We hope you enjoy the poems. Please note that sections 3 and 11 had two sources for the text of the poems; they are...
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of...
Short Poetry Collection 176 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 176 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2018...
A Reading of Life, with Other Poems - George Meredith
A Reading of Life, with Other Poems - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems. - Summary by Carolin...
From Queen's Gardens - Adelaide Anne Procter
From Queen's Gardens - Adelaide Anne Procter
- Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
- Genre: Poetry
This is the third part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 29 poems by Adelaide Anne Procter. - Summary by Carolin...
A Noiseless Patient Spider - Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
A Few More Verses - Susan Coolidge
A Few More Verses - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Poetry
Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the second of three volumes of her verse. (Summary by Rachel)...
Selection from The Temple - George Herbert
Selection from The Temple - George Herbert
- Author: George Herbert
- Genre: Poetry
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems characterized by a precision of language, a metrical versatility, and an ingenious use of imagery or conceits that was...
Heroides - Publius
Heroides - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epistolary Fiction / Poetry
The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, not only for their interesting subject - letters by famous mythological characters addressed to their beloved...
Poems - Hattie Howard
Poems - Hattie Howard
- Author: Hattie Howard
- Genre: Poetry
"This poet's ear is so attuned to metric harmony that she must have been born within sound of some osier-fringed brook leaping and hurrying over its pebbly bed. There is a variety of subject and treatment, sufficient for all tastes, and these are...
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for...
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013....
Short Poetry Collection 061 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 061: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Short Poetry Collection 183 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 183 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2018....
