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Thomas Moore - I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

Algy Pug and 15 more 16 minutes

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

Algy Pug and 9 more 18 minutes

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James Russell Lowell - Present Crisis

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 1 hour

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Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of...

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

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Hamlin Garland - In the Autumn Grass

LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015.

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Priest's Brother

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

ALMcClain and 7 more 23 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Autumn Fires

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires , from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses . This was the weekly poetry project for October 18-24, 2015.

ALMcClain and 20 more 14 minutes

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Song of Autumn

Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Unknown - Canadian Boat-Song

Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829 «The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished member of a family not destitute of Celtic blood, and which has even been illustrious...

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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