Poetry
Travels by the Fireside
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry projec…
Carolina Chansons
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Dubose Heyward
This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his…
Answer to a Child's Question
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project f…
An Essay on Criticism
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Alexander Pope
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
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William Wordsworth
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth. This was the weekly poem for the 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…
Bell Upon Organ
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George MacDonald
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in t…
Hope
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Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of…
Short Poetry Collection
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Henry David Thoreau
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
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William Combe
“To bury these, to christen those,And marry such fond folks who choseTo change the tenor of their lifeAnd risk the matrimonial strife.” This…
The Excursion
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William Wordsworth
The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem is a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814. It…
Struwwelpeter
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Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…
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 Railway Train
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 28, 2011.Alt…
The Old Man and the Ass
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Jean de la Fontaine
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the t…
The Seven Seas
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Rudyard Kipling
This is a collection of some of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling, These poems are centered around travelling, many of which may have been writt…
The Congo
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Vachel Lindsay
The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms …
Ballads of a Bohemian
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Robert W. Service
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bo…
The Guards Came Through
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. - Summary by Carolin
The Jingle Book
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Carolyn Wells
A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.