Poetry
Psalms
To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible. This was the w…
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…
Short Poetry Collection
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2013.
Lamentations
Lamentations is a profound exploration of grief and loss, capturing the sorrow of a people devastated by destruction. Traditionally read dur…
Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations is a series of mournful poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah as he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah lame…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…
Drum-Taps
Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response …
Poems
Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, esp…
O Captain! My Captain!
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014…
Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astr…
A Prairie Sunset
A Prairie Sunset is a reflective poem by Walt Whitman that captures the beauty and vastness of the American landscape. Through vivid imagery…
Best Way to Read a Book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…
Satires
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …
Short Poetry Collection
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 22 public-domain poems.
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…
Birches
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
The Faerie Queene
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…
Poems Every Child Should Know
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lo…
A Few Figs from Thistles
A Few Figs from Thistles is a captivating collection of 23 poems by the renowned poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, published in 1922. This work …