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Maxwell Bodenheim - Introducing Irony

Subtitled 'A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems', this collection reads years ahead of its time. Set mainly in Jazz Age New York City, the poems and tales are a series of profiles of people in seedier parts of...

VfkaBT 2 hours 29 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children

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518

Unknown - Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the intelligent Rooster. An interesting Story in Verse for Children

This is, as the title already describes, the rhymed story of Chanticleer the Rooster, and his adventures. Follow the bird through his youth and school years, on a journey, through adventures, becoming a father and a...

Lowell Moore and 2 more 1 hour 50 minutes

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Charles Godfrey Leland - Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land

This is a volume of poetry by Charles Godfrey Leland. The first half of this volume is taken up by the Songs of the Sea, with rather romantic songs about seafaring, mermaids, and adventures, and the second half of the...

Stephen Christie and 20 more 4 hours 16 minutes

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Songs Before Sunrise

This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian...

Elizabeth P. and 13 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Ronald Ross - Philosophies

This is a volume of poetry by Ronald Ross. It was composed in India during Ross' intensive research of malaria. Ross was first to discover how mosquitoes transmit malaria and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine...

Craig Franklin and 12 more 2 hours 15 minutes

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441

Louise Imogen Guiney - White Sail

This is a collection of poems by Louise Imogen Guiney. The collection is split into four parts. After the titular poem, which is its own part, this volume contains ten narrative poems concerning some well-known and...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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438

James Russell Lowell - Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems

A collection of poems by Lowell, one of the Fireside poets with Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Bryant, including a sketch of his life. The collection is composed of the title piece, a retelling of an Arthurian...

Phil Schempf 2 hours 42 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 175

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2017.

Phil Schempf and 15 more 1 hour 33 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Short Poetry Collection 173

This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.

Craig Campbell and 16 more 1 hour 43 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This version is in prose and the collection contains 464 verses....

Algy Pug 2 hours 37 minutes

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Aldous Huxley - Wheels - The Second Cycle

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, published in 1917, contains poems by the Sitwells and also Aldous Huxley, among...

Nemo and 3 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Erotica

489

John Donne - Aspects Of Love - An Anthology

Aspects Of Love is an anthology of poetic explorations on the theme of erotic love — though one of the «poets» represented here is better known, even than as a dramatist, as the philosopher, Plato. His Symposium heads...

Tony Addison 9 hours 5 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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