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John Milton - Paradise Regain'd (version 2)

Having been publicly acknowledged as God's «beloved Son,» Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the...

Thomas A. Copeland 2 hours

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Hamlin Garland - Do You Fear the Wind?

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Do You Fear the Wind? by Hamlin Garland. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2013. Taken from An American Anthology, 1787–1900, Edmund Clarence...

David Lawrence and 15 more 11 minutes

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Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson on Death

Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published until after her death. This collection includes two letters Dickinson wrote...

Libby Gohn 28 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 117

This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013.

Etel Buss and 10 more 37 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Ann Radcliffe - EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts

In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does...

Grant Hurlock 56 minutes

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Walter Malone - Opportunity

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013. Walter Malone was born in DeSoto Count, Mississippi. He wrote 2 volumes...

Bill Mosley and 18 more 35 minutes

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Helen Hunt Jackson - January

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of January by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2013. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an Amewrican writer and...

Algy Pug and 7 more 9 minutes

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Long Poems Collection 008

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length.

Tony Addison and 6 more 4 hours 21 minutes Long Poems Collections

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Edgar Allan Poe - Raven and Other Poems

«Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping —...

Phil Chenevert 35 minutes

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, God and destiny. (Summary by Michael Armenta)

Michael Armenta 1 hour 27 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2013. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer,...

Algy Pug and 14 more 16 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Sappho: A New Rendering

Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments...

Libby Gohn 35 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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