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Acquaintance

In Poems of Experience

Read by Matthew Smith


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This is another volume of Ella Wheeler Wicox's famous series. This time, the topic is Experience. The short play The New Hawaiian Girl is in…

The Men Who Live It Down - Read by MSD

In The Men Who Live It Down

Read by Matthew Datcher


Henry Lawson


MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town …

Middle Age Enthusiasms - Read by MSD

In Middle Age Enthusiasms

Read by Matthew Datcher


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…

To The Women of Australia - Read by MSD

In To The Women of Australia

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…

She Comes Not - Read by MSD

In She Comes Not

Read by Matthew Datcher


Herbert Trench


Frederic Herbert Trench was an Irish poet. A number of his poems were set set to music and he moved into theatrical work for a few years. - …

The White Man's Burden - Read by MSD

In The White Man's Burden

Read by Matthew Datcher


Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …

Sonnet XVII

In Short Poetry Collection 159

Read by Matthew Datcher


James Russell Lowell


This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.

Troubled About Many Things - Read by MSD

In Troubled About Many Things

Read by Matthew Datcher


Emily Dickinson


The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produ…

The Flood - Read by MSD

In The Flood

Read by Matthew Datcher


John Clare


John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countrys…

The Willows - Read by MSD

In The Willows

Read by Matthew Datcher


Bret Harte


The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe.Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short f…

Summer - Read by MSD

In Summer

Read by Matthew Datcher


Christina Rossetti


Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing…

Contemporaries

In Songs from Vagabondia

Read by Matthew Datcher


Bliss Carman


This is the famous collection "Songs from Vagabondia", a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catap…

A Summer Morning - Read by MSD

In A Summer Morning

Read by Matthew Datcher


R. F. Murray and Robert F. Murray


He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his…

Song of the Sewing-Machine - Read by MSD

In Song of the Sewing-Machine

Read by Matthew Datcher


George Pope Morris


George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's …

Comfort in the Night - Read by MSD

In Comfort in the Night

Read by Matthew Datcher


Jean Ingelow


Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

I Am The World - Read by MSD

In I Am The World

Read by Matthew Datcher


Dora Sigerson Shorter


Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She …

A Petition to Time - Read by MSD

In A Petition to Time

Read by Matthew Datcher


Barry Cornwall


Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet. Rather unknown outside Britain in his times and largely considered to be …

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