Poetry
Lamentations
Lamentations is a profound exploration of grief and loss, capturing the sorrow of a people devastated by destruction. Traditionally read dur…
Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations is a series of mournful poems written by the Prophet Jeremiah as he saw the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah lame…
The Wind Among the Reeds
The Wind Among the Reeds is a collection of lyrical poems by William Butler Yeats, showcasing the rich tapestry of Irish mythology and folkl…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and s…
Hermann and Dorothea
There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of charac…
Cathay
The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks wr…
Balder Dead
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…
The Complete Poetical Works
In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, a…
Drum-Taps
Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response …
The World's Best Poetry
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
A Prairie Sunset
A Prairie Sunset is a reflective poem by Walt Whitman that captures the beauty and vastness of the American landscape. Through vivid imagery…
Best Way to Read a Book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…
Psalms
To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible. This was the w…
When We Were Very Young
A.A. Milne wrote many poems to entertain his young son, Christopher Robin Milne, who appears to have been about three when "When We Wer…
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…
An Alphabet of History
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of thisbook appeared in the Chicago Su…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
Short Works Collection
This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
Poems
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first instal…
Hero and Leander
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…