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Rudyard Kipling - If

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 38 minutes

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Hilda Doolittle - Sea Garden

This is a collection of poems by Hilda Doolittle about topics relating to the ocean, nature, or both. It contains vivid and descriptive language to convey a wide range of emotions. — Summary by Campbell Schelp

Larry Wilson and 5 more 45 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting story in verse for children

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Unknown - Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting story in verse for children

This is the story of an intelligent, upright and generous rooster named Chanticleer. We follow his life from birth to death in this story written in verse. The story recounts his adventures during his childhood, his...

SweetHome 1 hour 26 minutes

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Sir Philip Sidney - Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods

LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of Double Sestina — Ye Goatherd Gods by Phillip Sidney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. — Poem is included in the book «Countesse of Pembroke's...

William Allan Jones and 2 more 23 minutes

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Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse

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Mary Carolyn Davies - Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse

Here is a delightful collection of short verses for children by Mary Carolyn Davies. Seeing the world through child-like imagination, these light-hearted poems are of trains, fishing, gardening, fairies and so much...

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Rudyard Kipling - Before Edgehill Fight

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019. — A real and down to earth poem about a the Battle of Edgehill. —...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 22 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Golden Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of A Golden Day by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 31, 2019. — A delightful little poem describing what it feels like to greet a...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 30 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow, Version 2

A collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. Her lyrical poems of love, nature's beauty, and death were much loved during the early nineteenth century. — Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker

AnnaLisa Bodtker 1 hour 10 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Picture-Books In Winter

LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Picture-Books In Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. — Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and...

Algy Pug and 25 more 31 minutes

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Evaleen Stein - Child Songs of Cheer

This is a little volume of children's poetry by Indiana poet Evaleen Stein. The poems in this volume concern really anything that could be fun for children, from picking flowers to learning things in school to...

Stefan Von Blon and 10 more 1 hour 9 minutes

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts - New York Nocturnes, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Canadian poet and prose writer Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. This volume starts with a series of poems on New York City, and then includes some other poems on miscellaneous subjects. The...

Stefan Von Blon and 5 more 45 minutes

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Kahlil Gibran - Prophet (version 3)

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The...

Adam Santoni 1 hour 18 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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