Ballads
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Read by Ben Adams
Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the…
Balladen
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Carl Spitteler
Eine Balladensammlung des Schweizer Dichters und Schriftstellers Carl Spitteler. Er erhielt 1919 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. - Summar…
Mein blaues Buch
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Hermann Löns
Mein blaues Buch ist eine Sammlung von Balladen und Romanzen, welche 1909 erschien. Löns war leidenschaftlicher Jäger und gerne in…
More Bab Ballads
Read by Graham Redman
W. S. Gilbert
This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert…
Ballad of the Tempest
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James Thomas Fields
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4t…
Up The Line
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Will Carleton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?
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Robert Burns
A LibriVox' Weekly Poetry tribute to Robbie Burns on the upcoming Robbie Burns Day. (January 25)Robert Burns (also known as Robbie Burns, Ra…
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
Horatio Alger, better known for his juvenile fiction, also penned some great poetry. His Ballads, including the 8 war poems and his odes, ar…
The Bab Ballads (version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
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Henry Lawson
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
The Norse King's Bridal
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Eleanor Mary Smith-Dampier
In these translations from the Danish the author attempted to adhere strictly to the metres of the original, however in some, where this was…
Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time …
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Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman and Thomas Wyatt
The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poe…
Ballads and Legends
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legend…
Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse
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Henry Herbert Knibbs
A poetry collection. The poem "Out There Somewhere" was extensively quoted in and was the basis for Edgar Rice Burroughs' story &q…
Two Cumberland Ballads
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John Stagg
Two narrative ballads, based on local lore, by the Cumberland poet John Stagg. In 'The Hermit of Rockcliffe', a young fugitive takes refuge …
Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
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John Harland
Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads an…
Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods
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Sir Philip Sidney
LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods by Phillip Sidney.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…
Lays of Ancient Rome (Version 2)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Lays of Ancient Rome are four narrative poems by the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay. Each poem tells a famou…
Phaedra and other Poems and Ballads
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Phædra was the wife of Theseus, the King of Athens, but she developed a passion for her step-son Hippolytus. His rejection of her decl…
Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 043
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Various
Dies ist ein offenes Projekt für deutsche Lyrik: jedes Gedicht, das in der Public Domain (gemeinfrei) ist, wird in die Lyrik-Sammlung a…