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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous...

Gord Mackenzie and 11 more 19 hours 16 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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The Gawain Poet - Gawayne and the Green Knight

Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight , a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance...

Betsie Bush 1 hour 32 minutes

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523

Robert W. Service - Ballads of a Bohemian

Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the «author» Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War I and its...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 4 minutes

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Carl Sandburg - Cornhuskers

Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

Betsie Bush 2 hours 20 minutes

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John Milton - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...

Owen and 11 more 9 hours 41 minutes

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Long Poems Collection 004

Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Sam Fold and 6 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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Robert Bridges - Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of...

Linda Leu 4 hours 54 minutes

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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 1

«The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse». The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works...

Graham Williams and 3 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Robert Frost - North of Boston

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man...

Brad Bush 1 hour 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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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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