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Helen of Troy and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy and Other Poems - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry
Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great successes. This volume also contains the small drama On the Tower, which is recorded here with a full...
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse - Various
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Science
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was...
Balder Dead - Matthew Arnold
Balder Dead - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by Nathan)...
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 - Various
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a mummers' play, was read by gathered...
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
America - Samuel Francis SMITH
- Author: Samuel Francis SMITH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of America by Samuel Francis Smith. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 4th, 2010....
Short Poetry Collection 089 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 089 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of July 2010....
Love Thee ? - Thomas Moore
Love Thee ? - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry
This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the irish poet Thomas Moore. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
Short Poetry Collection 141 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 141 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2015....
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012. This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems...
Short Poetry Collection 130 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 130 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014....
After Long Grief - Madison Cawein
After Long Grief - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - June - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - June - 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 June. - Summary by Carolin...
Poems and Ballads - Heinrich HEINE
Poems and Ballads - Heinrich HEINE
- Author: Heinrich HEINE
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Heinrich Heine, translated by Emma Lazarus. The poetry of Heinrich Heine is still widely read today within Germany, and this fine translation by Emma Lazarus has added to a greater readership in English-speaking...
The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
The Wild Knight and Other Poems - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of poems that tend to revolve around the theme of the wonder of the world. It includes the short, poetic play, "The Wild Knight". Summary by Robert Smith...
The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. This volume also contains his lesser known shorter poems as well as the well-known narrative poem Miniver Cheevy. - Summary by Carolin...
A Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
A Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of the Rubaiyat, yet others contented...
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand? - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 29th, 2007....
Poetry of Thomas Moore - Thomas Moore
Poetry of Thomas Moore - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry
The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Melodies" published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists of 130 of his poems set to music,...
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
Sonnet on a Wet Summer - John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Author: John Codrington BAMPFIELD
- Genre: Poetry / Sonnets / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Sonnet on a Wet Summer" by John Codrington Bampfield. This was the weekly poem for the week of July 1, 2012....
Pro Patria - Julia Caroline Dorr
Pro Patria - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of seven patriotic long poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin...
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee MASTERS
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee MASTERS
- Author: Edgar Lee MASTERS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people perceive a particular...
Short Poetry Collection 192 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 192 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2019....
For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons - E. Nesbit
For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013. Edith Nesbit reminds us of the magic - and brevity - of childhood....
Flame and Shadow, Version 2 - Sara Teasdale
Flame and Shadow, Version 2 - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. Her lyrical poems of love, nature's beauty, and death were much loved during the early nineteenth century. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker...
Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every school child studied this poem during the middle school years. Although the decline of the reputation of the...
Short Poetry Collection 038 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 038 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 038: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
The Red Flower - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. Dr. Henry van Dyke was an American author, lecturer, ambassador and pastor. He was in charge of the committee...
Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses - Michael Field
Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses - Michael Field
- Author: Michael Field
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also because many of them contain...
Short Poetry Collection 151 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 151 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015....
Hymns of the Christian Church - Various
Hymns of the Christian Church - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Music / Christianity - Other
A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon Mire)...
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Romance
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those...
O Southland! - James Weldon Johnson
O Southland! - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Poetry
In celebration of Juneteenth, LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland!, by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for 18 June 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Astrophil and Stella - Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil and Stella - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry
Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means "star-lover") for his beloved Stella (whose name means "star"). It is likely that...
Short Poetry Collection 051 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 051: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or "portraits", were designed to evoke "the excitingness of pure being"...
Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009....
Outlook Odes - T. W. H. Crosland
Outlook Odes - T. W. H. Crosland
- Author: T. W. H. Crosland
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by TWH Crosland. While earning some fame as a writer and poet himself, he is today best remembered for the rather shameful role he played in the trial of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of the persecution....
Short Poetry Collection 134 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 134 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014....
The Australian Sunrise - James Lister CUTHBERTSON
The Australian Sunrise - James Lister CUTHBERTSON
- Author: James Lister CUTHBERTSON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Australian Sunrise by James Lister Cuthbertson. This was the weekly poetry project for August 16th, 2009....
Short Poetry Collection 095 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 095 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of February and March 2011....
