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 Short Poetry Collection 159
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.
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 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 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 To The Fighting Weak
Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses …
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 Twilight Hour
Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the…
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 On Hearing the Messiah
Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father Willia…
In In November
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding expo…
In The Old Inn
Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English an…
In When Father Carves the Duck
Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at…
