Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood - Thomas Hood
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as his weird and fantastic poems. As William Michael Rossetti writes in his biographical sketch of Hood, "A man of...
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "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...
Life Waves - Frances Cook Steen
Life Waves - Frances Cook Steen
- Author: Frances Cook Steen
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American author Frances Cook Steen, published in 1922. These poems reflect with clarity on the preceding decade, including the war and all the other personal and historical events which Ms Steen lived through and...
Rivers to the Sea (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
Rivers to the Sea (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry
Sara Teasdale never disappoints. This lovely book of lyrical poems reminds us of the eternal verities of love, loss and life. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker...
From Queen's Gardens - Jean Ingelow
From Queen's Gardens - Jean Ingelow
- Author: Jean Ingelow
- Genre: Poetry
This is the second part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 30 poems by Jean Ingelow. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 194 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 194 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2019....
Short Poetry Collection 010 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Poems 1817 - John Keats
Poems 1817 - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Poetry
Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, especially Spenser, into whose chivalric world he boldly ventures; and also for Milton, and the classic poets....
Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day
Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day
- Author: Thomas Fleming Day
- Genre: Poetry
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so well-known today is the fact that...
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: Poetry
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. It was in 1784, in debtor's prison...
The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes
The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes
- Author: William Theodore Parkes
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. "Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as...
Short Poetry Collection 188 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 188 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2019....
Poems from the Inner Life - Lizzie Doten
Poems from the Inner Life - Lizzie Doten
- Author: Lizzie Doten
- Genre: Poetry
Collection of reflective poetry by celebrated medium and clairvoyant, Lizzie Doten. She claims these poems were sent by her 'inner heaven', often while she was in a trance. She credits some of the poems to the spirits of Poe, Burns and Sprague, with...
To...With all my soul - Thomas Moore
To...With all my soul - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To...:"With all my soul, then, let us part" by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 16th, 2010....
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World - William Ross Wallace
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World - William Ross Wallace
- Author: William Ross Wallace
- Genre: Poetry
For Mother’s Day 2006, we’ve recorded five versions of this tribute to Mothers and their role in shaping the future. The title is very famous out of its context, but now you can hear how it was originally intended....
1914, and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke
1914, and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote...
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
'The Sixth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of S, Calidore or of Cvrtesie.' Apart from Books 1-6, the only surviving section of the Faerie Queene is a short isolated fragment known as the Mutabilitie Cantos (traditionally numbered...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin...
The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
- Author: Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in "the Kings and Queens of England". This volume also contains a number of her other poems, especially acrostics, many of which are dedicated to friends...
Maurine and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Maurine and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of earlier poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Title poem, Maurine, is a narrative poem about the tragedy and happiness of the life of Maurine. Besides that long narrative poem, this collection also includes a number of Ella Wheeler...
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012. Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is most famous for his witty, satirical...
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the Jews. Although a learned rabbi,...
The Youth's Coronal - Hannah Flagg Gould
The Youth's Coronal - Hannah Flagg Gould
- Author: Hannah Flagg Gould
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry for children by Hannah Flagg Gould, containing several fables and other verses with a little moral. "Accept, then, my young Friends, this new CORONAL of the little flowers of poesy which I have woven for you. When you...
Fires of Driftwood - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Fires of Driftwood - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Author: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poetry by Canadian poet and playwright Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. Though Ms. Mackay's poetry was popular and widely published during her lifetime, her poetry is today not very well-known. Her poetry is, however, of an enduring...
Afternoon Songs - Julia Caroline Dorr
Afternoon Songs - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Past Days - Anne Brontë
Past Days - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010 Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote a volume...
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Poetry
The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the poems in this book are intended for kittens rather than children! (Summary by Rachel)...
Short Poetry Collection 195 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 195 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2019....
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The Fovrth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser...
How Betsey and I Made Up - Will Carleton
How Betsey and I Made Up - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009....
Ballads and Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
Ballads and Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. This volume contains seven of Ms. Shorter's Ballads, a series of miscellaneous poems, and finally two narrative poems. While the topics of the poems and ballads are all unique, many of them share...
The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories
Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the time, and 7 religious poems. Stowe...
Long Poems Collection 004 - Various
Long Poems Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length....
Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 20th, 2009....
A Pinch of Salt - Robert Graves
A Pinch of Salt - Robert Graves
- Author: Robert Graves
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves. Perhaps now best known as the author whose book of the same name inspired the Masterpiece Theater series I, Claudius, Robert Graves wrote prolifically...
The Fisher's Boy - Henry David Thoreau
The Fisher's Boy - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 13th, 2007....
Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie
Nets to Catch the Wind - Elinor Wylie
- Author: Elinor Wylie
- Genre: Poetry
This is the first volume of Poems by American poet and novelist Elinor Wylie, published in 1921. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 042 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 042 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 042: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Defence of the Bride and Other Poems - Anna Katharine Green
The Defence of the Bride and Other Poems - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Poetry
Anna Katharine Green is now best-known for her popular mystery and detective stories, but she also wrote some excellent poetry. - Summary by Carolin...
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only in a single fragmentary copy; its date cannot be fixed with certainty since its title page is missing, though...
