Narratives
The Siege of Corinth
Read by Nathan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…
Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse
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Tom Hood
Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The …
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme
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C. J. Dennis
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a w…
The Battle of Marathon
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battl…
The Song of Hugh Glass
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John Neihardt
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of…
The Borough
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George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
The Last Buccaneer
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Last Buccaneer by Thomas Babbington Macaulay. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …
Digger Smith
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C. J. Dennis
“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…
Venus and Adonis (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
William Shakespeare
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
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Various
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…
Poetic Trios
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Various
We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Mo…
The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich
Read by Liam Brady
Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love. - Summar…
Queen Mab
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab is the first major poetic work by Percy Bysshe Shelley and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution. It depicts a two-pr…
The Corsair
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron narrates the tale of Conrad, a pirate or privateer, who was rejected by society in his youth because of his…
Peter Bell: A Tale
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William Wordsworth
A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. - Summary by Matthew Schneider
A Lost God
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Francis William Bourdillon
The first-century scholar and historian Plutarch tells a strange tale of sailors at sea, who heard a mysterious voice proclaiming: "Pan…
Men of Harlech
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Talhaiarn
LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012.…
The White Doe of Rylstone
Read by Phil Benson
William Wordsworth
A narrative poem in seven cantos, set during the Northern Rebellion of 1569. A group of Catholic nobleman from the North of England attempt …
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by George Gordon, Lord Byron.This was the Fortnightly Poetry…