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Earlier Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
Earlier Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin...
Second April - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second April - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay....
The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case: "Position of the entire criminal cause "Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, "With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, "Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death "By heading or hanging as befitted...
Poems - Nora May French
Poems - Nora May French
- Author: Nora May French
- Genre: Single author
Nora May French was a Californian poet and a member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, which flourished after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. She gained minor recognition, but no financial...
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3) - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Single author
Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being young mens' early deaths. This...
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan - Toru Dutt
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan - Toru Dutt
- Author: Toru Dutt
- Genre: Single author
Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in French and English, later in Sanskrit as well. Her works gained popularity and success posthumously. This...
The Prophet (version 3) - Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet (version 3) - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into...
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought - Elizabeth Porter Gould
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought - Elizabeth Porter Gould
- Author: Elizabeth Porter Gould
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay....
Day Dreams - Rudolph Valentino
Day Dreams - Rudolph Valentino
- Author: Rudolph Valentino
- Genre: Single author
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentinoβs court-imposed exile from the film industry, where a protracted legal battle with Famous Players-Lasky prevented...
Poems - Mary Coleridge
Poems - Mary Coleridge
- Author: Mary Coleridge
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist)...
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin...
Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Sadakichi Hartmann
Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Sadakichi Hartmann
- Author: Sadakichi Hartmann
- Genre: Single author
Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakichi was sent to Germany to be raised. He arrived in America in 1882 and became friends with Walt Whitman....
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator - Paul Bewsher
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator - Paul Bewsher
- Author: Paul Bewsher
- Genre: Single author
Paul Bewsher writes poems of a wartime aviator from his heart and soul. His heart longs for an end to the perils of war and the forced destruction meted out by him and his fellow soldiers while yearning for a return to the serenity of home. His soul...
The House of Dust: A Symphony - Conrad Aiken
The House of Dust: A Symphony - Conrad Aiken
- Author: Conrad Aiken
- Genre: Single author
The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements around central images such as...
Selections from Harris's Cabinet - William Roscoe
Selections from Harris's Cabinet - William Roscoe
- Author: William Roscoe
- Genre: Single author
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to entertain. One of these books, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by William Roscoe, reprinted from...
India's Love Lyrics - Laurence Hope
India's Love Lyrics - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Single author
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name of Laurence Hope, her works were extremely popular in the early years of the 20th century, inspiring popular...
Cecil's Own Book - Ann Hawkshaw
Cecil's Own Book - Ann Hawkshaw
- Author: Ann Hawkshaw
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Single author
Ann Hawkshaw's fourth and final collection was published privately and named for her young grandson, Cecil Wedgwood. Written for children, the volume alternates prose with poetry and is lighter in tone than her earlier work, although poems such as...
The Recluse - William Wordsworth
The Recluse - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Single author
In the prefatory advertisement to the First Edition of the Prelude, 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and that the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The second part is the...
Beauties of Tennyson - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Beauties of Tennyson - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Single author
A collection of Tennyson's poetry : 1 The Brook - 00:16 2 Song from "Maud" - 1:20 3 A Farewell - 2:34 4 Song from βMaudβ - 3:26 5 Break, Break, Break - 4:53 6 From βLocksley Hallβ- 5:43 7 Song from βMaudβ - 6:43 8 Song from βThe Princessβ - 7:43 9...
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One - Jonathan Swift
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Single author
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is such a thing as corrupt rich guys who pretend they're God's gift to the world? So did Swift. Think some of...
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2 - Wallace Stevens
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2 - Wallace Stevens
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- Genre: Single author
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and...
Milton's Minor Poems - John Milton
Milton's Minor Poems - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Single author
βOn Shakespear 1630β typifies much of Miltonβs poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium included in the Second Folio of the Bardβs collected works, 1632. Quite a coup! And this brand new M.A., never...
Ventures into Verse - H. L. Mencken
Ventures into Verse - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Single author
Better known for his biting satire, Mencken's first book was this small volume of verses. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Gardener - Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Single author
Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literalβthe...
The Dream of Gerontius - John Henry Newman
The Dream of Gerontius - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Single author / Christianity - Other
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kindly Light." This lyric is only one of the many beautiful poems written by an author whose fame as a writer of the finest...
Infelicia - Adah Isaacs Menken
Infelicia - Adah Isaacs Menken
- Author: Adah Isaacs Menken
- Genre: Single author
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous as an actress, successfully navigated press scandals about her private life and wrote poetry. This volume...
Bib Ballads - Ring Lardner
Bib Ballads - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Single author
Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little son grow. He wrote a series of 29 short poems on various facets of parenthood. (Summary by Jack Thro)...
Al Que Quiere! (and 18 more poems) - William Carlos Williams
Al Que Quiere! (and 18 more poems) - William Carlos Williams
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- Genre: Single author
A book of William Carlos Williams's early poetry. Included in this recording are 18 poems published by Williams in Volume 13 of 'Poetry' literary journal in 1919. - Summary by KevinS...
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman - Fay Inchfawn
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman - Fay Inchfawn
- Author: Fay Inchfawn
- Genre: Single author / Christianity - Other
Published by the Religious Tract Society in London, The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman is a collection of domestic, spiritual, and fanciful poems from the point of view of a woman, a housewife, and a Christian. The natural, supernatural, and solidly...
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...
Poems - G. K. Chesterton
Poems - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Foliage: Various Poems - William Henry Davies
Foliage: Various Poems - William Henry Davies
- Author: William Henry Davies
- Genre: Single author
W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one of the most popular poets of his time. Davies is usually considered one of the Georgian poets, although much...
Poems - Marietta Holley
Poems - Marietta Holley
- Author: Marietta Holley
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin...
A Selection of Divine Poems - John Donne
A Selection of Divine Poems - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Single author / Christianity - Other
John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support...
The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer - Walter Crane
The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Single author
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them "The Happy Prince and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" as well as many collections of Fairy Stories. He is...
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and The Great...
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G K Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able...
The Rainbow and the Rose - E. Nesbit
The Rainbow and the Rose - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children". These poems are primarily for adults, although a few are written for her daughters. The majority are philosophical...
A Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. ------ This poem was first published in the October 1838 issue of The Knickerbocker, a New...
