Single Author Collections
Hope
LibriVox readers bring you 16 versions of Hope, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry selection for the week of November 18, 2013.
Candle-Lightin' Time
Poetry about African American Southern life - Summary by Denise Ray
The Poetical Works of 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…
A Shropshire Lad
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at …
Cornhuskers
Cornhuskers is a celebrated collection of 103 poems by Carl Sandburg, capturing the essence of American life in the early 20th century. Thro…
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poe…
Selected Poems
Juan Francisco Manzano was a poet who was born into slavery in Cuba. This collection was translated by the Irish abolitionist Richard Robert…
Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
A Father of Women
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Orchids
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Lake Lyrics and Other Poems
A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…
Selected Poems
Anne Spencer was a poet, librarian, activist and gardener from Virginia. These poems were published from 1920 to 1929. - Summary by Newgaten…
Winter Evening Tales
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
Selected Poems
Rafael Cabrera was a Mexican poet and diplomat who also studied medicine. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell and were publ…
House of the Trees
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor fo…
The Magic House
A beautiful collection of 47 poems the author wrote being inspired by the seasons, by love, by memories. - Summary by Laur
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Some Verses
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Selected Poems
Amado Nervo was a Mexican poet, novelist and diplomat. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell, Thomas Walsh and Ernest F. Luca…
Selected Poems
Julián del Casal was a Cuban poet and exponent of the modernismo literary movement. These poems were translated by Thomas Walsh, Jorg…