Poetry
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Solitude (Wilcox)
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enou…
The Forest
Read by Sheldon Greaves
Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
The Explanation
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 1st, 2009…
Short Poetry Collection 119
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Walt Whitman
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.
The Little Star
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Unknown
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star, author unknown, which parodies the previous week's children's favourite The …
Men I'm Not Married To (Poem)
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Dorothy Parker
A saucy little poem commenting upon all men that Ms. Parker didn't marry, perhaps implying (it's a bit ambiguous) that upon marrying, the hu…
A Burnt Ship
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Burnt Ship by John Donne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 17th, 2010.
The First Jasmines
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…
The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam
Read by Algy Pug
Omar Khayyám
In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar…
The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
Poetry Miscellany 01
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Various
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…
The Widow's House
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Sarah Orne Jewett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Widows' House by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November …
The Hillside Thaw
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.
Songs of Sea and Sail
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Thomas Fleming Day
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…
Ode (Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth)
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John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Ode (Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth) by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for May…
Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Katherine Philips
The poet Katherine Philips was called "The Matchless Orinda" in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and politi…
Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection (from The Spell of the Yukon)
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Robert W. Service
On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the…
Short Poetry Collection 101
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G. K. Chesterton and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2011.
Long Ago
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Christina Rossetti
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012.Ch…