Single Author Collections
Poems
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Marietta Holley
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin
Mice & Other Poems
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Gerald Bullett
Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…
Stanzas Written in His Library
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Robert Southey
Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909.This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding our…
Songs for the Millions, and other poems
Read by Phil Benson
Benjamin Stott
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the…
A Sheaf of Roses
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Elizabeth Gordon
The rose, the flower of love, the flower of life, the floral symbol of all life's occasions whose presence both motivates and adorns indelib…
How Salvator Won and Other Recitations
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American poet known for her popular lyrics that capture positive and uplifting themes. This volume is quite divers…
Verses of a V. A. D.
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Vera Brittain
This is a collection of poems by Vera M. Brittain, an Englishwoman, who served in World War I as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V…
A Tree with a Bird in it
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Margaret Widdemer
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
Canada and Other Poems
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Thomas Frederick Young
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
The Brook - Break, Break, Break - Sweet and Low - and The Eagle
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This is Tennyson at his best. This is Tennyson, the master poet at his most descriptive, his most insightful, his most enlightening. This se…
Selected Poems
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of …
Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…
The Prelude, Version 2
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Winter Evening Tales
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Amelia E. Barr
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
An Alphabet of History (Version 2)
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Wilbur D. Nesbit
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
The Revelation
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Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happ…
Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
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Alfred Castner King
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
Twenty
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Stella Benson
Twenty, Stella Benson’s first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First …
Later Poems
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as t…