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Short Poetry Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Peter Yearsley and 17 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Maxwell Bodenheim - Poet To His Love

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Andrea L and 12 more 9 minutes

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Teika no Fujiwara - One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu...

Kevin Steinbach 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter (version 2)

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a...

17 minutes

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Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a...

21 minutes

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Poetry

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C. S. Lewis - Spirits in Bondage

Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker...

Robert Garrison 1 hour 17 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - O Southland!

In celebration of Juneteenth , LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland! , by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for 18 June 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 9 minutes

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 24 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Mother Night

Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night , by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month. (Summary by...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 17 minutes

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William Carlos Williams - Danse Russe

Williams spent his life as a doctor practicing pediatric medicine in northern New Jersey, a few miles west of New York City. During the work day, between seeing patients, he often dashed off poems on the backs of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 15 more 17 minutes

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