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In A Poetical Cook-Book

Read by Matthew Datcher


Maria J. Moss


This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the…

Goin' Home To-Day - Read by MSD

In Goin' Home To-Day

Read by Matthew Datcher


Will Carleton


William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the S…

Erie Waters - Read by MSD

In Erie Waters

Read by Matthew Datcher


E. Pauline Johnson


"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…

Summer's Ending - Read by MSD

In Summer's Ending

Read by Matthew Datcher


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector o…

Insects - Read by MSD

In Insects

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 American Girl - Read by MSD

In The American Girl

Read by Matthew Datcher


Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw


Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 185…

The Usher's Charge - Read by MSD

In The Usher's Charge

Read by Matthew Datcher


W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

Old Boats - Read by MSD

In Old Boats

Read by Matthew Datcher


Theodosia Garrison


There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, …

The Fog - Read by MSD

In The Fog

Read by Matthew Datcher


Lola Ridge


Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publ…

At Sunrise - Read by MSD

In At Sunrise

Read by Matthew Datcher


Bliss Carman


Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them a…

Conversion - Read by MSD

In Conversion

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emoti…

The Whale - Read by MSD

In The Whale

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ellis Parker Butler


His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared …

October - A Sonnet - Read by MSD

In October - A Sonnet

Read by Matthew Datcher


William Cullen Bryant


William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very s…

The Ship of Earth - Read by MSD

In The Ship of Earth

Read by Matthew Datcher


Sidney Lanier


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…

The Lake - Read by MAS

In The Lake

Read by Matthew Smith


Matthew Arnold


Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sag…

Only be still

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…

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