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In the Seven Woods - William Butler Yeats
In the Seven Woods - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry
In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual,...
Tides - John DRINKWATER
Tides - John DRINKWATER
- Author: John DRINKWATER
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by John Drinkwater. The English poet and playwright was a close associate of, among others, Rupert Brooke, before World War I, and continued a successful career as author and playwright after the war and until his death in...
The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of later Poetry by the famous American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. - Summary by Carolin...
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English - Sappho
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English - Sappho
- Author: Sappho
- Genre: Poetry
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson This is a...
A Book of Twenty-four Sonnets - Laurens MAYNARD
A Book of Twenty-four Sonnets - Laurens MAYNARD
- Author: Laurens MAYNARD
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 24 sonnets by Laurens Maynard. This rather unknown poet brings many classical themes into this volume, with biblical figures beginning the circle and then in somewhat chronological order arriving in the poet's present day...
Miscellaneous Poe: Poems and Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
Miscellaneous Poe: Poems and Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Poetry
Come and hear some of the wonderful, magical, fantastic and macabre works of the inestimable Edgar Allan Poe. This collection contains the world famous poems Annabel Lee, The Bells, Eldorado and The Raven. Also included is his masterful short story,...
Short Poetry Collection 171 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 171 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2017....
Short Poetry Collection 101 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 101 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2011....
Short Poetry Collection 112 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 112 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2012....
The Guards Came Through and other Poems - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guards Came Through and other Poems - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. - Summary by Carolin...
North of Boston - Robert Frost
North of Boston - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Poetry
One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45) The Mountain (00:12:20) A Hundred Collars...
The Publisher - C. J. Dennis
The Publisher - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Publisher by C.J. Dennis. This was the weekly poetry project for June 28th, 2009....
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
- Author: John WILMOT
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009....
The Dawn and the Day - Henry Thayer NILES
The Dawn and the Day - Henry Thayer NILES
- Author: Henry Thayer NILES
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
The Dawn and the Day, or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part 1 is a text similar to the epic poetry of Homer or, more accurately, classic Hindu texts, such as the Baghavad-Gita. - Summary written by not.a.moose...
Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell - Anne Brontë
Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry
Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the...
Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year. A special pocket edition was even...
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
- Author: William Vaughn Moody
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2012. "I really liked this one. It reminded me of Browning's monologues. Absolutely lovely...and dark at the...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2) - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2) - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities. Good, in...
By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies - Bliss Carman
By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry
This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. - Summary by Carolin...
Later Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
Later Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is the last volume in Julia Caroline Dorr's collected poems, the Later Poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 107 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 107 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2012....
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers - Robert Williams WOOD
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers - Robert Williams WOOD
- Author: Robert Williams WOOD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining! (Summary by Andrea L.)...
In The Workhouse: Christmas Day - George R. SIMS
In The Workhouse: Christmas Day - George R. SIMS
- Author: George R. SIMS
- Genre: Poetry
George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the hypocrisy of the law. A vivid...
Rhymes for the Nursery - Ann TAYLOR
Rhymes for the Nursery - Ann TAYLOR
- Author: Ann TAYLOR
- Genre: Poetry
This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star.Also included are poems about why you shouldn't kill...
Short Poetry Collection 138 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 138 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014....
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition) - Omar Khayyám
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition) - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persian during...
The White Sail - Louise Imogen Guiney
The White Sail - Louise Imogen Guiney
- Author: Louise Imogen Guiney
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Louise Imogen Guiney. The collection is split into four parts. After the titular poem, which is its own part, this volume contains ten narrative poems concerning some well-known and some lesser known legends. The...
Long Poems Collection 005 - Various
Long Poems Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length....
My True Love - Sir Philip Sidney
My True Love - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of My True Love by Sir Philip Sidney. This was the weekly poetry project for May 24th, 2009....
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Author: Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Are The Children at Home? by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 5, 2012. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was an American poet, author, and editor. She was...
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of Snow Song by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 9th, 2007....
Short Poetry Collection 118 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 118 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013....
The Wild Swans at Coole - William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry
The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned with, amongst...
My Madonna - Robert W. Service
My Madonna - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of My Madonna by Robert W. Service. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 12th, 2007....
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never...
Poems & Songs - Richard MIDDLETON
Poems & Songs - Richard MIDDLETON
- Author: Richard MIDDLETON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by English poet Richard Middleton. While hardly known to readers anymore today, Middleton's poems, stories, and essays were all very highly regarded during his lifetime and after his untimely death, having won the...
The Road - Siegfried SASSOON
The Road - Siegfried SASSOON
- Author: Siegfried SASSOON
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the volume is relatively small, it has been reprinted many times and gained quite some popularity. - Summary by Carolin...
October (Coates version) - Florence Earle COATES
October (Coates version) - Florence Earle COATES
- Author: Florence Earle COATES
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011. Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were...
Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare - Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
- Author: Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS
- Genre: Poetry / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct way of writing poetry. This...