Poetry
The Present Crisis
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James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New E…
Tithonus
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains on…
Troubled About Many Things
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Emily Dickinson
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produ…
Poems on Travel
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Robert Maynard Leonard and Variousandrobert Maynard Leonard
This volume of poetry takes the reader, or rather the listener, along on a literary tour through Europe. R.M. Leonard has collected the fine…
A Second Rubaiyat Miscellany
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Louisa Stuart Costello, Edward Byles Cowell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Henry George Keene, R. Löwenberg, Charles Pickering, Frank Siller, Whitley Stokes and W. E. B. Whittaker
In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam…
The Penitent
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
LibriVox volunteers bring you12 recordings of The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. …
Dreams Collection 2 - Stories and Poems
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Various
This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)
A Ballad of John Silver
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John Masefield
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings ofA Ballad of John Silver, by John Masefield, to celebrate International Talk Like a…
Short Poetry Collection 011
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
The House Where We Were Wed
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Will Carleton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The House Where We Were Wed by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for Augu…
Inscription for an Old Bed
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William Morris
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Inscription for an Old Bed by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20t…
Fatherland
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Sir Henry Parkes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Fatherland by Sir Henry Parkes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23rd, 2011.Sir …
Bird Raptures
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Christina Rossetti
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Bird Raptures by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Septembe…
Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4
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Walt Whitman
This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …
Middle Age Enthusiasms
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novel…
Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War
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Various
This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…
The House of Orchids and Other Poems
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George Sterling
This is a 1911 volume of poems by California poet George Sterling. Sterling was a particularly celebrated poet during his life time in Calif…
Over Every Hill
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; …
Short Poetry Collection 079
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Various and Walter de la Mare
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of May 2009.
Life’s Tragedy
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for June 21st, 200…