Single Author Collections
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman
Read by Clarica
Fay Inchfawn
Published by the Religious Tract Society in London, The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman is a collection of domestic, spiritual, and fanciful po…
Forgiveness (Whittier)
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John Greenleaf Whittier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Forgiveness by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 2, 2013.W…
A Few Figs from Thistles
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Sun and Saddle Leather
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Charles Badger Clark
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …
A Thief in the Night - Version 2
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E. W. Hornung
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was …
And Thus He Came
Read by David Wales
Cyrus Townsend Brady
These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…
The Ships that Won't Go Down
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. …
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Selected Works: Poems
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems,…
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2)
Read by David Leeson
Henry van Dyke
A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson).
The Star-Treader and Other Poems
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Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
Read by mlcui
Sargent Kayme
"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the…
The Red Inn
Read by pmstrahm
Honoré de Balzac
Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm
Ellis Parker Butler Short Story Collection, Vol 1
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Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. These are eight…
The House of Dust: A Symphony
Read by Expatriate
Conrad Aiken
The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World …
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…
To Sleep
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Sir Philip Sidney
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of To Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23, 2014.Sir Ph…
Europe and Elsewhere
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were…