Single Author Collections

The Mermaid of Druid Lake

by Charles Weathers Bump Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

Poems

by Edna St. Vincent Millay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I…

Heart of Spring

by Shaw Neilson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…

A Tree with a Bird in it

by Margaret Widdemer Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…

The Lilt of Life

by Zora Cross Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused o…

Complete Poems

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

Enough Rope

by Dorothy Parker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…

When Day is Done

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

A Shropshire Lad

by A. E. Housman Read by Jon Sindell 4.2
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

Selected Poems

by Effie Lee Newsome Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Effie Lee Newsome was a poet from Philadelphia who was also the editor of ‘The Little Page’, a column for children in The Crisis. These poem…

Poems for my Children

by Ann Hawkshaw Read by Phil Benson
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…

Songs of the Road

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…

Songs by the Sea

by Rebecca Ruter Springer Read by Larry Wilson 4
Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

Second April

by Edna St. Vincent Millay Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.7
Second April is a poignant collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, capturing the essence of human emotion and the complexities of lo…

The Five Nations

by Rudyard Kipling Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childr…

Rock Me to Sleep

by Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen was an American author, journalist and poet. - Summary by Wikipedia

Amoretti and Epithalamion

by Edmund Spenser Read by Thomas A. Copeland 5
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Chills and Fever

by John Crowe Ransom Read by Christopher Fried 5
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Butler Yeats Read by Peter Tucker 4.2
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…

The Tower

by William Butler Yeats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

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