Poetry

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…

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…

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…

Jerusalem

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William Blake



LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008.

Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein



Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

Mother Nature (Dickinson)

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Emily Dickinson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013Whil…

On Passing Deadman’s Island

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Thomas Moore



LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July…

Mind Amongst the Spindles

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Charles Knight



Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…

Long Poems Collection 005

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Various



Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Reinaart de Vos

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Unknowntranslated Byjulius De Geyter, Translated Byjulius De Geyter and Unknowntranslated By Julius De Geyter



Het episch dierdicht "Van den Vos Reynaerde", geschreven in het Middelnederlands in de 13e eeuw, geldt als een hoogtepunt in de Ne…

Nonsense Verses

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Edward Lear



This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies…

Sonnet 116

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William Shakespeare



LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of …

LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

Christmas Bells

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry projec…

Serenade

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Oscar Wilde



LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Serenade by Oscar Wilde. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 2…

The Giaour

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George Gordon, Lord Byron



"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaou…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5

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Charles Dickens



2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…

Where the Bee Sucks

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William Shakespeare



LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2…

Easter, 1916

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William Butler Yeats



LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 5th, 2…

The White Man's Burden

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Rudyard Kipling



Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …

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