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Alfred Noyes - Drake

Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic «Drake», fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia...

Cynthia Moyer 8 hours 1 minute

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Joseph Rodman Drake - Culprit Fay and Other Poems

A collection, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, was published posthumously by his daughter in 1835. His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection and the patriotic «The American Flag» which was set as...

Oxenhandler and 6 more 1 hour 33 minutes

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On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry...

Daniel Vimont 10 hours 32 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Fasti

The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated...

Arnie Horton and 4 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica

The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C… It is not only the...

Leni and 7 more 6 hours 52 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake

The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and the transactions of each Day occupy a Canto. (Summary...

Cynthia Moyer 4 hours 37 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 112

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2012.

Leonard Wilson and 17 more 1 hour 32 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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G. K. Chesterton - Poems

Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)

Algy Pug and 20 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger...

Nathan 1 hour 54 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 181

This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2018. Translated poems: The Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Anster (1793-1867) The Diwan of...

Colleen McMahon and 14 more 2 hours 21 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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John Neihardt - Divine Enchantment

When the princess Devanaguy falls into a deep trance-like sleep, she is visited by the god Vishnu: who causes her to fall pregnant with his holy child, Christna. Devanaguy’s sleep is prolonged supernaturally by...

Nathan 1 hour 32 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 182

This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2018.

Farnood and 16 more 3 hours 7 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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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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