Poetry
Short Poetry Collection 094
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Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2011.
Ghosts (version 2)
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Henrik Ibsen
A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by…
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
The Power of the Dog
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Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 19…
Compilation de poèmes - 005
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Various
Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)
The Rhodora
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly p…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
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Charles Dickens
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
The Fasti
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to th…
Sonnet 130
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal…
Drake
Read by Cynthia Moyer
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of…
The Hunting of the Snark (version 2)
Read by Shawn Craig Smith
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…
Miracles
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March…
Les Fleurs du mal (Poèmes, Sélection)
Read by Guy Marcy
Charles Baudelaire
Il est des textes dont on pourrait dire ce que l’on dit à propos de ces fleurs qui défendent qu’on les touche. C’est une chose…
Satires
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …
Poems of West and East
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative p…
Solitude (Pope)
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Alexander Pope
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Solitude by Alexander Pope. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Febr…
Don Juan, Canto 5
Read by Peter Gallagher
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur
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Omar Khayyám
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…
The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies
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Rudyard Kipling
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Jan…
A Drama of Exile
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…