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Margaret Fairless Barber - Spring (Barber version 2)

Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey...

Newgatenovelist and 7 more 20 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Deep In The Quiet Wood

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Algy Pug and 15 more 21 minutes

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Mary Mollineux - On the Sight of a Skull

Mary Mollineux (born Mary Southworth) was probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, differed from many of her Quaker contemporaries because of an early education in Latin, Greek, science,...

Annalyn and 9 more 14 minutes

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Jenny Grahame - Wedlock

This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. ( Summary by David Lawrence )

Claudia Salto and 10 more 17 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Marietta Holley - Spring Song of the Swallow

Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of «Spring Song of the Swallow», by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! — Summary by...

Caitlin Buckley and 9 more 20 minutes

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Anonymous - Lily Of The West

«Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.» — Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

Caitlin Buckley and 10 more 23 minutes

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Arthur Macy - Mrs. Mulligatawny

Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of...

Caitlin Buckley and 6 more 18 minutes

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John Bunyan - To Be a Pilgrim

From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This was the weekly poem for March 8-15, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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Susan Coolidge - On the Shore

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did . This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 22 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade

This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a...

Allen Biehl and 16 more 42 minutes

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Rupert Brooke - Day and NIght

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was «vivid». This...

Algy Pug and 12 more 17 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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