Poetry
The Presence of Love
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern…
Cornhuskers
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.
A Boy's Will (version 2)
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost preferred to describe the New England countryside using everyday language. He used both as tools to explore world views and lif…
When We Two Parted
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry proj…
Recordings on MP3 players and other portable devices 'Written in March' (Microp…
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William Wordsworth
This is a project which will allow us to compare recording quality of different mp3 players and portable recording devices. Each reader has …
The Spell of the Yukon
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
Lines on The Mermaid Tavern
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John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August…
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes
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Leroy F. Jackson
This is a Nursery Rhyme Book with lots of delightful short, rhyming stories that are meant to be read aloud to small children. They are vint…
Simple Gifts
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Joseph Brackett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.Several…
Autumn's Gold
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the…
Long Poems Collection 004
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Various
LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
Love's Young Dream
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 201…
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
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Walter Savage Landor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
There's a certain slant of light
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Emily Dickinson
In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence
Oxford Poetry 1915
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Various
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Solitude (Wilcox)
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enou…
The Forest
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Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
The Explanation
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 1st, 2009…