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Romance

556

C. J. Dennis - Digger Smith

“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes”… what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”....

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 24 minutes

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Narratives

504

William Wordsworth - Peter Bell: A Tale

A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. — Summary by Matthew Schneider

FunkyPhD 54 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

C. J. Dennis - Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town,...

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 21 minutes

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Narratives

565

Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

David Wales 42 minutes

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Epics

543

Matthew Arnold - Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode

A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this end, he persuades his general to call a truce and arrange for him to...

52 minutes

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Epics

490

Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead (version 2)

The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 13 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

536

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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Poetry

457

Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Casey at the Bat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote...

Astrid Fingerhut and 11 more 49 minutes

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Poetry

458

Talhaiarn - Men of Harlech

LibriVox readers present 7 versions of «Men of Harlech» by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. «Men of Harlech» or «The March of the Men of Harlech» is a song and military...

Cynthia Moyer and 6 more 13 minutes

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Narratives

451

George Gordon, Lord Byron - Island

Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the mutineers as they flee to a South Sea island, «their guilt-won Paradise.»...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 18 minutes

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Poetry

425

Alexander Pope - Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under...

Rhonda Federman 58 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

455

William Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading)

Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his patron, the Earl of Southampton (thought by some to be the beautiful youth to...

1 hour 8 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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