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Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

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Anonymous - Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. — This poem was published in booklet form...

Aleacia Messiah and 13 more 36 minutes

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christy and The Pipers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. — This poem, set in Scotland, tells of a woman's...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 47 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Scots Of The Riverina

This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. «and to run from home was a crime.» The story is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. ( David Lawrence)

Algy Pug and 12 more 28 minutes

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Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

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William Wordsworth - Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

This poem is part of the «Ecclesiastical Sonnets,» writen by Wordsworth between 1821 — 22. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 13 more 19 minutes

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Albert Bushnell Hart - Mentor: Benjamin Franklin

This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor , published May 15, 1918. Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th century and a founding father of the United States. His interests and...

John Doherty and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes The Mentor

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W. S. Gilbert - Iolanthe

Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the...

1 hour 21 minutes

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Phineas Fletcher - Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises

While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid . The poem is an epyllion like...

32 minutes

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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still...

Gilles G. Le Blanc and 5 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Clement Clarke Moore - Old Santeclaus

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 20 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Age of the Motored Things

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and...

Claudia Salto and 12 more 22 minutes

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E. Pauline Johnson - Fire - Flowers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire — Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected...

ashleighjane and 16 more 16 minutes

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Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a cultural event originating from Vancouver, Canada, celebrating the...

Alana Jordan and 10 more 16 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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