Poetry
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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 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…
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, …
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…
Viviane
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Paul Duval
« Comment, Viviane, la fille onduleuse aux crins d'or, courtisane galloise experte en félonie, des douze preux d'Arthur ayant &…
Poems
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G. K. Chesterton
Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war po…
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)
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson
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Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
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…
The Apology
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…