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 The Fog
Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publ…
In October - A Sonnet
William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very s…
In The Ship of Earth
But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight agai…
In The Men Who Live It Down
MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town …
In To The Women of Australia
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…
In She Comes Not
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. - …
In Short Poetry Collection 159
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.
In The Flood
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 The Willows
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…
In Summer
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing…
In Songs from Vagabondia
This is the famous collection "Songs from Vagabondia", a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catap…
