Lyric

The New Joan and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Katherine Hale


Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…

A Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs

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Marie Hedderwick Browne


Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a pr…

Hebrew Melodies

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Byron wrote the Hebrew Melodies to accompany music by the composer Isaac Nathan which he claimed derived from Synagogue tunes used at the ti…

Petunia Blossoms

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Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage


American poet, Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage, presents a collection of lyrical poems celebrating home, nature, and sentiment. - Summary …

Jessie Pope's War Poems

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Jessie Pope


Jessie Pope published these poems during the early months of the First World War. They were very popular at the time and the author received…

Poems of 1912-13

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Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy wrote these poems in response to the death of his first wife. They are considered to be among his finest work.(Summary by Alan …

The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1

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Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at…

To The Rural Muse and Other Poems

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John Clare


The English poet John Clare was the son of a farm labourer and was often referred to as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". His w…

A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…

Purcell Ode and Other Poems

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Robert Bridges


Robert Bridges wrote the Ode to Music to mark the bicentenary of the death of Henry Purcell in 1695. - Summary by Alan MapstoneAdditional pr…

Songs Above the Drumfire

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Grantland Rice


Grantland Rice was an American poet and sportswriter. In these poems he remembers his time in France during the First World War.

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