Poetry - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - Jonathan Swift
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers by Jonathan Swift. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 24th, 2008....
I Stepped from Plank to Plank - Emily Dickinson
I Stepped from Plank to Plank - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful...
Short Poetry Collection 170 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 170 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. Introduction by the reader: This is one of the best-loved classics of Sufi literature. In his own...
A Glee for Winter - Alfred Domett
A Glee for Winter - Alfred Domett
- Author: Alfred Domett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Glee for Winter by Alfred Domett, published in "A Victorian Anthology" in 1895. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 23rd, 2007....
Short Poetry Collection 077 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 077 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009....
The Mystery - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Mystery - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Mystery by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 12, 2012, Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th...
Contrasted Songs - Marian Longfellow
Contrasted Songs - Marian Longfellow
- Author: Marian Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, "Among these "Contrasted Songs" I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond." -...
A Nautical Ballad - Charles Edward Carryl
A Nautical Ballad - Charles Edward Carryl
- Author: Charles Edward Carryl
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of A Nautical Ballad by Charles Edward Carryl....
Gleams of Sunshine - Joseph Horatio Chant
Gleams of Sunshine - Joseph Horatio Chant
- Author: Joseph Horatio Chant
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Church. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Poetry Collection 132 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 132 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014....
Warble for Lilac-Time - Walt Whitman
Warble for Lilac-Time - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman....
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes - Leroy F. Jackson
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes - Leroy F. Jackson
- Author: Leroy F. Jackson
- Genre: Poetry
This is a Nursery Rhyme Book with lots of delightful short, rhyming stories that are meant to be read aloud to small children. They are vintage rhymes, most from the 1800s. Each section has about 5 minutes of rhymes....
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Single author
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before,...
Fly Leaves - Charles Stuart Calverley
Fly Leaves - Charles Stuart Calverley
- Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by the English poet Charles Stuart Calverley. Calverley was considered quite a wit during his life time, and this disposition shines through in some of these poems as well. - Summary by Carolin...
Songs Ysame - Annie Fellows Johnston
Songs Ysame - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level of fame in their own right, Ms Bacon primarily as a social reformer and Ms Johnston as an author of...
One day is there of the series - Emily Dickinson
One day is there of the series - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 25th, 2007....
Poems of Power - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Power - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume in a series of books of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the theme is "Power". - Summary by Carolin...
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children - Unknown
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
This is, as the title already describes, the rhymed story of Chanticleer the Rooster, and his adventures. Follow the bird through his youth and school years, on a journey, through adventures, becoming a father and a family man and eventually a...
A Channel Passage - Rupert Brooke
A Channel Passage - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for August 30th, 2009....
The Siege of Corinth - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Siege of Corinth - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto - a Venetian renegade fighting for the...
Short Poetry Collection 162 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 162 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2016....
Memorial Verses and L'Envoi - James Russell Lowell
Memorial Verses and L'Envoi - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Poetry
This is the third part of the collected poems of James Russell Lowell, comprising his Memorial Verses and his celebrated poem L'Envoi. - Summary by Carolin...
Soup of Alphabets, Volume 003 - Various
Soup of Alphabets, Volume 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Reference
This third "stove-top" full of Alphabet Soups --again-- runs the fullest gamut! It ranges from country scenes (Alphabets of Fruits, Birds, Animals and "Country Scenes"), to just plain silliness (Absurd ABCs and Lear's Nonsense Alphabet #5), and...
The Freedmen's Book - Lydia Maria Child
The Freedmen's Book - Lydia Maria Child
- Author: Lydia Maria Child
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / History
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges those who can read, to read these...
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age - Alice Meynell
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for July 12th, 2009, and was recorded to celebrate the 21st birthday of Lucy Perry, who co-ordinated this...
A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems - Madison Cawein
A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Madison Julius Cawein, "the Keats of Kentucky", published at the height of his popularity in 1902. - Summary by Carolin...
An Essay on Criticism (version 2) - Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (version 2) - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact idea of the art of poetical criticism without entering into the consideration of the art of poetry....
Poems - Leonard Cline
Poems - Leonard Cline
- Author: Leonard Cline
- Genre: Poetry
This is the first published volume of poetry by notable American journalist and author of horror stories Leonard Lanson Cline. These poems were published when Cline was only 21 years old, but the talent that would lead HP Lovecraft to admire his...
Short Poetry Collection 066 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 066 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 066: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, selected and read by Librivox volunteers....
Short Poetry Collection 098 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 098 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2011....
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of...
November - John Clare
November - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012 John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of...
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid's Fasti and Livy's history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome,...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 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 articles describing birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published...
Dreams and Realities - Rosa Mulholland
Dreams and Realities - Rosa Mulholland
- Author: Rosa Mulholland
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Rosa Muholland. The poetry in this volume is varied, some read like fairy tales, some have a slightly sinister aspect. All poems share the very skillful execution of the verses, and the beauty of the images they evoke....
Karawane - Hugo Ball
Karawane - Hugo Ball
- Author: Hugo Ball
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010. Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in...
Long Poems Collection 008 - Various
Long Poems Collection 008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length....
The World - Henry Vaughan
The World - Henry Vaughan
- Author: Henry Vaughan
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of The World by Henry Vaughan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26th, 2009....
Mother Night - James Weldon Johnson
Mother Night - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Short Poetry Collection 001 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems....
