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A Short Description of Torre Abbey

Read by Garth Burton


Hugh Robert Watkin


Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the time of Henry VIII, a significant part of the buildings of Torre Abbey, particularly the…

Wonders of Plant Life

Read by Garth Burton


Samuel Leonard Bastin


A fascinating insight into the ways in which different plants cope with life, and the ingenious methods they use to encourage their benefact…

The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea

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J. B. Dashwood


An attempt to sail a small boat from the River Thames to the Solent in the English Channel, using a canal and river route. (Summary by Garth…

Lights - Read by GB

In Lights

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Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. He…

Love Thee? - Read by GB

In Love Thee ?

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Thomas Moore


This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. - Summary by Stav Ni…

Signs of Christmas, by Edwin Lees

In Christmas in Poetry - Carols and Poems

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Various


This is a volume of Christmas poems and carols, by various authors and from various times. - Summary by Carolin

I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Read by GB

In I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

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Thomas Moore


Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and …

Autumn Fires - Read by GB

In Autumn Fires

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Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires, from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses. This was the we…

In the Autumn Grass - read by GB

In In the Autumn Grass

Read by Garth Burton


Hamlin Garland


LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is…

November - Read by GB

In November

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native …

God Bless Us Everyone - Read by GB

In God Bless Us Every One

Read by Garth Burton


James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet"…

A Christmas Duet - Read by GB

In A Christmas Duet

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Joseph Ashby-Sterry


Joseph Ashby-Sterry was an English poet and novelist. He works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry, now out of print. This poem …

Charlie and the Angleworm

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 1, June 1899

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

A Child of the Rain

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028

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Elia Wilkinson Peattie


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Selections From How To Write A Play

In Coffee Break Collection 012 - The Performing Arts

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William Gillette


This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…

A Song of Autumn - Read by GB

In A Song of Autumn

Read by Garth Burton


Adam Lindsay Gordon


Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. - Summary by Wikipedia

Thomas Carlyle, Part 2

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

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Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…

The Devil's Bridge - Read by GB

In The Devil's Bridge

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary…

The Snow Man

In Fireside Christmas Short Stories

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Alfred B. Cooper


A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection …