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Short Poetry Collection 137 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 137 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2014....
Lyrical Ballads (1798) - William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads (1798) - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The...
Poems & Parodies - Tom KETTLE
Poems & Parodies - Tom KETTLE
- Author: Tom KETTLE
- Genre: Poetry
Tom Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. All these varied interests helped him compose beautiful and very witty poetry, until his death at the Western Front in World War I. This volume...
While Gazing on the Moon's Light - Thomas Moore
While Gazing on the Moon's Light - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of While Gazing on the Moon's Light by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for May 10th, 2009....
Billy in Bunbury - ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY
Billy in Bunbury - ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY
- Author: ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY
- Genre: Poetry / Cooking
This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Little Billy, who won't eat, is taken to the delicious kingdom Bunbury by King Hun Bun to help whet his...
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight - Vachel Lindsay
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 18th, 2007....
Wheels - The Second Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The Second Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Poetry
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, published in 1917, contains poems by the Sitwells and also Aldous Huxley, among others. - Summary by Algy Pug...
An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh - NABÍL-I-A'ZAM
An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh - NABÍL-I-A'ZAM
- Author: NABÍL-I-A'ZAM
- Genre: Poetry / Elegies & Odes / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh by Nabíl-i-A'zam (Mullá Muhammad Zarandí). This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010. Mullá Muhammad-i-Zarandí (29 July 1831 – 1892), more commonly known as...
Short Poetry Collection 184 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 184 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018....
Song: Eternity of Love Protested - Thomas CAREW
Song: Eternity of Love Protested - Thomas CAREW
- Author: Thomas CAREW
- Genre: Poetry
Thomas Carew (pronounced "Carey") (1595 - 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace....
A Book of Old English Ballads - George Wharton EDWARDS
A Book of Old English Ballads - George Wharton EDWARDS
- Author: George Wharton EDWARDS
- Genre: Poetry
In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse...
Short Poetry Collection 071 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 071 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems for the month of September 2008...
The Frost Spirit - John Greenleaf Whittier
The Frost Spirit - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 28, 2012. John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet. He is considered one of the...
Against Indifference - Charles WEBBE
Against Indifference - Charles WEBBE
- Author: Charles WEBBE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008....
The Secret - William Cosmo MONKHOUSE
The Secret - William Cosmo MONKHOUSE
- Author: William Cosmo MONKHOUSE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of The Secret by Cosmo Monkhouse. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 4th, 2007....
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas) - Clement Clarke Moore
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas) - Clement Clarke Moore
- Author: Clement Clarke Moore
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
The Keepsake - Anonymous
The Keepsake - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
"The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures For Childhood and Youth", is a collection of twenty pastoral poems published as one collection in London, 1818. The topics are moral encouragement for children, young and old alike. (Summary by Sam Stinson)...
Short Stories and Poems for Children, Original and Select - Unknown
Short Stories and Poems for Children, Original and Select - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of short stories and poems for children, filled with sweet but simple life lessons. - Summary by Campbell Schelp...
True Culture - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
True Culture - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most...
Short Poetry Collection 113 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 113 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012....
Translations & Imitations of German Ballads - Sir Walter Scott
Translations & Imitations of German Ballads - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Poetry
The narrative poems in this collection are written by Sir Walter Scott - the well-known Scottish poet and novelist. Each of these five poems are based loosely upon German ballads: rewritten in flowing English meter. * The Chase - a.k.a. The Wild...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Poetry
LibriVox readers present the ninth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in...
Short Poetry Collection 081 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 081 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009....
The Ramayan, Book 4 - Valmiki
The Ramayan, Book 4 - Valmiki
- Author: Valmiki
- Genre: Poetry / Other religions
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It is the story of Rama,...
The Culprit Fay and Other Poems - Joseph Rodman DRAKE
The Culprit Fay and Other Poems - Joseph Rodman DRAKE
- Author: Joseph Rodman DRAKE
- Genre: Poetry
A collection, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection and the patriotic "The American Flag" which was set as a cantata for two soloists,...
The Goop Directory - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Goop Directory - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Poetry
In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you aren't in this group of Naughty Ones....
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry
Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December night, with tap-tap-tapping at his chamber door. (Summary by Hugh)...
Garden Fairies - Philip Bourke MARSTON
Garden Fairies - Philip Bourke MARSTON
- Author: Philip Bourke MARSTON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 30th, 2007....
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Home Sweet Home - John Howard PAYNE
Home Sweet Home - John Howard PAYNE
- Author: John Howard PAYNE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Originally from the Opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan,' 'Home! Sweet Home!' is John Howard Payne's most famous work. Written in 1823 it has been widely quoted and referenced in other works ever since.This is the LibriVox Weekly Poetry project for the week...
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon the Tristam and Iseult legends: which were popular with contemporary readers. The poem...
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Flood-Tide Of Flowers - Henry van Dyke
Flood-Tide Of Flowers - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Flood-Tide Of Flowers by Henry Van Dyke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 5th, 2009....
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選) - Herbert Allen GILES
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選) - Herbert Allen GILES
- Author: Herbert Allen GILES
- Genre: Poetry
Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! -- that I took These snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na'er belong. Thy gems shine purer in their native bed Concealed, beyond the pry of...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - July - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - July - 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 July. - Summary by Carolin...
Parting - Charlotte Brontë
Parting - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Parting by Charlotte Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 25th, 2009....
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur - Omar Khayyám
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy / Other religions
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of Omar's rubai in any language. In...
Life’s Tragedy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life’s Tragedy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for June 21st, 2009....
The Hill - Rupert Brooke
The Hill - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War...
Short Poetry Collection 197 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 197 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2019. With a number of spooky ones for Halloween!...
