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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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Poetry

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William Cullen Bryant - Song For New Year's Eve

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of A Song For New Year's Eve by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 30, 2012. William Cullen Bran was an American Romantic poet. He...

Algy Pug and 10 more 21 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 116

This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2013.

Christopher M. Wallace and 15 more 56 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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William Cullen Bryant - Journey of Life

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2012. William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet,...

Algy Pug and 13 more 20 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - True Culture

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known...

Algy Pug and 13 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Casey at the Bat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote...

Astrid Fingerhut and 11 more 49 minutes

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Erotica

Christopher Marlowe - Hero and Leander (version 2)

Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite...

Thomas A. Copeland 42 minutes

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Poetry

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Joyce Kilmer - Trees and Other Poems

«I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...». Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and...

Phil Chenevert 49 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 115

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

Alan Mapstone and 10 more 46 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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