Poetry
The Last Bohemian
Tonight on Ideas, join Bob Chelmick as he makes a pilgrimage to San Francisco to find the grand old man of American Beat poetry, Lawrence Fe…
A Summer's Afternoon
As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the w…
My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares by Chidiock Tichborne. This was the weekl…
The Face on the Barroom Floor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of The Face on the Barroom Floor by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy.
A Fish Answers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Fish Answers by James Leigh Hunt. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October…
Momentous Words
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Momentous Words by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of No…
Bag-Pipes at Sea
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Bag-Pipes at Sea by Clinton Scollard. This was the weekly poetry project for February 15th, 2…
How Betsey and I Made Up
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3r…
The Great Panjandrum Himself
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Great Panjandrum Himself by Samuel Foote. This was the weekly poetry project for May 31st…
Velvet Shoes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 6th, 2009.
The Touch of the Master’s Hand
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Touch of the Master’s Hand by Myra Brooks Welch.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project f…
At Ease on Lethe Wharf
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14t…
The Revelation
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happ…
Farewell
LibriVox volunteers bring you seven readings of Farewell! – But Whenever – by Thomas Moore. This is the fortnightly poetry project for Octo…
July
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 Priest's Brother
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…
The Wine
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local …
Old Man Rain
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines f…
Rose and Roof-Tree
This is a volume of poetry by American author George Parsons Lathrop. As the dedication reads, "I need give my verse no hint as to whom…
Maurine and Other Poems
This is a volume of earlier poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Title poem, Maurine, is a narrative poem about the tragedy and happiness of t…