In A Late Good Night
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and anothe…
In Oh, For a Home of Rest!
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a travelin…
In ''In Re a Gentleman, One''
Paterson lived and worked in Sydney for most of his adult life, but his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the ic…
In Hope
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of…
In One Among So Many
Adams' energy and drive can be seen through his large output of written work in his short lifetime. He often wrote quickly and did little re…
In The Usher's Charge
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…
In Old Boats
There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, …
In Short Poetry Collection 159
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.
In Goin' Home To-Day
William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the S…
In Insects
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…
In Erie Waters
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nati…
