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Book VIII - Chapter 7

In Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

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Xenophon


The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

Darkness

In The Burning Wheel

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Aldous Huxley


Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …

The First Jasmines - Read by JM

In The First Jasmines

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Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…

Beauty Making - Read by JM

In Beauty Making

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved no…

Song of the Broad-Axe, 4th stanza - Read by JM

In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

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Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

September - Read by JM

In September

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Michael Field


Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her …

The Welcome and Farewell - Read by JM

In The Welcome and Farewell

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George Pope Morris


George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a po…

Leaves - Read by JM

In Leaves

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Sara Teasdale


Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into w…

The Three Rulers - Read by JM

In The Three Rulers

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Adelaide Anne Procter


Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was…

Harmonics - Read by JM

In Harmonics

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William Vaughn Moody


William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at …

In the Autumn Grass - read by JM

In In the Autumn Grass

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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…

Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth - Read by JM

In Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

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Arthur Hugh Clough


Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…

A Song of Autumn - Read by JM

In A Song of Autumn

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Adam Lindsay Gordon


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

Challenge - Read by JM

In Challenge

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John William Streets


The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes:Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, w…

Canadian Boat-Song - Read by JM

In Canadian Boat-Song

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Unknown


Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829:"The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished memb…

The Priest's Brother - Read by JM

In The Priest's Brother

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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 wa…

Hush'd Be the Camps Today read by JM

In Hush'd Be the Camps Today

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Walt Whitman


LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's…

Spring - Read by JM

In Spring (Barber version 2)

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Margaret Fairless Barber


Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (…