Poetry
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Read by Verity Kendall
William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 …
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific
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Eva March Tappan
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…
The Rape of Lucrece
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William Shakespeare
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in …
The Power of Words
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
Our Old Nursery Rhymes
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Alfred Moffat
Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le M…
Hymn Collection 001
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Various
Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.All Glory Laud and Honor - Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans;…
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…
Heroides
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Heroides, also known as the Heroines, the Letters of the Heroines or simply as Epistles are a very famous collection of poems by Ovid, …
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
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Chrétien De Troyes
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, …
Through the Looking-Glass (Version 6)
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Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is…
I'm Nobody
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible…
Love is enough
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William Morris
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013.Wi…
The Bells
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Edgar Allan Poe
LibriVox readers bring you 18 recordings of "The Bells." This was the Fortnightly Poetry selection for January 30 to February 13, …
IF
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Rudyard Kipling
This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throug…
The Argonautica
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Apollonius Rhodius
The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius…
Evening Star
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Edgar Allan Poe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th b…
Hero and Leander (version 2)
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Christopher Marlowe
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyran…
The Real Mother Goose
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William James Mcglothlin
A heartwarming collection of nursery rhymes that will take you back to your childhood! (Summary by Allyson Hester)
The Tiger
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William Blake
LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger, by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…