Single Author Collections
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? is a poignant ballad by Robert Burns that captures the essence of longing and love. Set against the backd…
From The Green Helmet
This audiobook includes all poems from W.B. Yeats's collection The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912), excepting the verse drama from which…
Stars of the Desert
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Selections from Harris's Cabinet
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…
Two Poems
These inspiring tributes to Williams College and its graduates were written by Henry Rutgers Conger while still a Williams student. In each …
Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Satires of Circumstance
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
Hope
LibriVox readers bring you 16 versions of Hope, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry selection for the week of November 18, 2013.
Cornhuskers
Cornhuskers is a celebrated collection of 103 poems by Carl Sandburg, capturing the essence of American life in the early 20th century. Thro…
Selected Poems
Jessie Fauset was a poet, novelist, educator and one of the editors of The Crisis. These poems were published between 1912 and 1929. - Summa…
When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
Bib Ballads
Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little so…
Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
Machine-Room Chants
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Selected Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a pre-eminent poet of the Victorian period in the United Kingdom. This selection of poems includes some of he…
By Scarlet Torch and Blade
Anthony Euwer, often appearing in anthologies of American poetry is also author of "Christopher Cricket on Cats" and "The Lim…
Not Understood and Other Poems
A posthumous collection of the more famous poems by the author of the New Zealand National Anthem. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
The Presence of Love
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
A Shropshire Lad
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …
Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…