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The Spirit of the Border

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Zane Grey


This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

After Long Grief - Read by LLW

In After Long Grief

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Madison Cawein


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012.Madi…

All Things Can Tempt Me - Read by LLW

In All Things Can Tempt Me

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


W. B. Yeats and William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of All Things Can Tempt Me by W. B. Yeats, from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912). This wa…

A Health - Read by LLW

In A Health

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edward Coote Pinkney


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 201…

The Song Against Songs - Read by LLW

In The Song Against Songs

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


G. K. Chesterton


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…

The House by the Side of the Road - Read by LLW

In The House by the Side of the Road

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Sam Walter Foss


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project…

The Auld Wife

In Short Poetry Collection 114

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Charles Stuart Calverley


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2012.

She Comes Not - Read by LLW

In She Comes Not

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Herbert Trench


Frederic Herbert Trench was an Irish poet. A number of his poems were set set to music and he moved into theatrical work for a few years. - …