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Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
- Author: Charles Cole HINE
- Genre: Single author / Modern (19th C)
Historical information relating the nature, extent, and consequences of The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the insurance losses, and the relief costs. A brief interlude of comic relief is inserted midway in the form of a poem regarding the event.. -...
Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History - Ann Hawkshaw
Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History - Ann Hawkshaw
- Author: Ann Hawkshaw
- Genre: Single author
The history of Britain up to the Norman Conquest in the form of 100 prose commentaries, each followed by a sonnet. The commentaries set the historical scene, quoting from Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and noted historians of the times, Hawkshaws...
Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London - John GAY
Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London - John GAY
- Author: John GAY
- Genre: Single author
John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig thieves, falling masonry and the contents of chamber pots, and above all else how to dress well for all...
John Keats: Selected Poems - John Keats
John Keats: Selected Poems - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Single author
John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he produced some of the most famous poems in world literature. Less erudite and philosophical than Shelley and...
The Undying One and Other Poems - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
The Undying One and Other Poems - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Author: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Genre: Single author
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing in an 1840 issue of The Quarterly Review about the poet Caroline Norton. Born Caroline Elizabeth Sarah...
Forty-Two Poems - James Elroy FLECKER
Forty-Two Poems - James Elroy FLECKER
- Author: James Elroy FLECKER
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. - Summary by Carolin...
The Rubinstein Staccato Etude - R. Nathaniel DETT
The Rubinstein Staccato Etude - R. Nathaniel DETT
- Author: R. Nathaniel DETT
- Genre: Single author
This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While born in Canada, he spent most...
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz - HAFIZ
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz - HAFIZ
- Author: HAFIZ
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mystical works are highly regarded by Hindus, Christians and others, and his influence extends to several...
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Similar to his novels, the underlying...
Ballads of a Bohemian - Robert W. Service
Ballads of a Bohemian - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War I and its aftermath. (Summary by Kristin Hughes)...
Songs for the Millions, and other poems - Benjamin STOTT
Songs for the Millions, and other poems - Benjamin STOTT
- Author: Benjamin STOTT
- Genre: Single author
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with a variety of forms, was his best...
Cottage Poems - Patrick BRONTË
Cottage Poems - Patrick BRONTË
- Author: Patrick BRONTË
- Genre: Single author
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and teacher, but he also was a poet and a novelist. Cottage Poems, his first published work, he gives gentle spiritual advice...
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man - Robert W. Service
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Single author
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. His poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" helped secure his reputation as the...
Psalms of David - Isaac WATTS
Psalms of David - Isaac WATTS
- Author: Isaac WATTS
- Genre: Single author
Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the World" and "When I survey the wondrous cross". His translations of the Psalms are therefore poetical and musical, as they were...
Endymion - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Endymion - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. ------ In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while sleeping in the mountains, was...
The Crescent Moon - Rabindranath Tagore
The Crescent Moon - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanjali shot him to fame in the west. Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into...
Selected Poems - Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
Selected Poems - Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
- Author: Arthur Hugh CLOUGH
- Genre: Single author
During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social injustice. This selection has been chosen from his collected works so that listeners familiar with Clough might...
Mother and Daughter - Augusta WEBSTER
Mother and Daughter - Augusta WEBSTER
- Author: Augusta WEBSTER
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a mother and her only child. As well as reflecting on aging and mortality, the sonnets express joy and love....
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars - LUCAN
- Author: LUCAN
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Single author / Epics
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The title given by posterity to the poem refers to the Battle of Pharsalus, which...
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems - Aldous Huxley
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry. The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of...
Songs of the Road - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Songs of the Road - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Single author
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of advenure - he was also a rather successful poet. This is a collection of poems written by the famous author. -...
Windfall and Waterdrift - Auberon Edward William Molyneux HERBERT
Windfall and Waterdrift - Auberon Edward William Molyneux HERBERT
- Author: Auberon Edward William Molyneux HERBERT
- Genre: Single author
This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period which has little sympathy with tenderness of feeling and simplicity of expression. The verses, of which this...
My Little Book of Prayer - Muriel STRODE
My Little Book of Prayer - Muriel STRODE
- Author: Muriel STRODE
- Genre: Single author / Free Verse
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS...
Jonah - Aldous Huxley
Jonah - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in French). He published it, at the age...
Poems - Wilfred Owen
Poems - Wilfred Owen
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. It stood in...
Rhymes of the Rockies - James W. WHILT
Rhymes of the Rockies - James W. WHILT
- Author: James W. WHILT
- Genre: Single author
The author worked as a dude wrangler Glacier National Park and lived on his ranch near Eureka, Monatana. This is the first book of his poems, which he often recited for the tourists. His other books include, "Giggles from Glacier Guides" and...
Mountain Interval (version 2) - Robert Frost
Mountain Interval (version 2) - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Single author
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published by Henry Holt. It was republished in 1920. Frost made several alterations in the sequencing of the collection...
Leaves of Grass (version 2) - Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (version 2) - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Single author
In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass.Originally published in 1855, the work started as a collection of 12 unnamed poems. However, Whitman spent most of his life...
Verse - Adelaide CRAPSEY
Verse - Adelaide CRAPSEY
- Author: Adelaide CRAPSEY
- Genre: Single author
Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and expanded 1922 edition of her verse. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Challenge - Louis UNTERMEYER
Challenge - Louis UNTERMEYER
- Author: Louis UNTERMEYER
- Genre: Single author
Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting many of his early struggles. The...
The Borough - George CRABBE
The Borough - George CRABBE
- Author: George CRABBE
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form...
Men, Women and Ghosts - Amy Lowell
Men, Women and Ghosts - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. - Summary by Carolin...
Japanese Prints - John Gould FLETCHER
Japanese Prints - John Gould FLETCHER
- Author: John Gould FLETCHER
- Genre: Single author
Japan An old courtyard Hidden away In the afternoon. Grey walks, Mossy stones, Copper carp swimming lazily, And beyond, A faint toneless hissing echo of rain That tears at my heart. John Gould Fletcher offers a brief history of Japanese poetry, as...
A Wine of Wizardry - George Sterling
A Wine of Wizardry - George Sterling
- Author: George Sterling
- Genre: Single author
A dark and moody collection of poems, influenced by the author's experience of nature, rather than an idealized notion of it. "The uncrowned King of Bohemia," as his friends called him, published this work against much public criticism. Summary by...
The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War - Robert Laurence Binyon
The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War - Robert Laurence Binyon
- Author: Robert Laurence Binyon
- Genre: Single author / War & Military
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) set three of the poems (The Fourth Of August, To Women, For The Fallen) in his cantata The Spirit of...
Irradiations; Sand and Spray - John Gould FLETCHER
Irradiations; Sand and Spray - John Gould FLETCHER
- Author: John Gould FLETCHER
- Genre: Single author
Irradiations; Sand and Spray, is the first book of poetry by John Gould Fletcher, published in 1915. Mr Fletcher was part of a group of poets known as imagist poets, which included Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound commended Fletcher for the...
The Dogs Of Boytown - Walter Alden Dyer
The Dogs Of Boytown - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single author
This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. ( David Wales)...
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2) - Andrew Barton Paterson
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (version 2) - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Single author
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy...
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2) - Bliss Carman
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2) - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Single author
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, Beauty...
