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Short Poetry Collection 167

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017.

JasonIvey and 14 more 59 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

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Sappho - Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries...

Eva Davis 1 hour 26 minutes

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Michael Field - Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also...

KHand and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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George R. Sims - In The Workhouse: Christmas Day

George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 15 minutes

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Robert Browning - Easter Interpreted

Robert Browning is still well-known today as a distinguished English poet. His poetry is still widely read, recited, and taught in schools. In this little volume, Rose Porter has compiled a collection of his poems...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 23 minutes

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Lord Alfred Douglas - Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. — Summary by Carolin

Algy Pug and 3 more 23 minutes

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Bernard Gilbert - Rebel Verses

Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful...

Jason in Panama and 8 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Virna Sheard - Carry On!

This is a little volume of poetry by Canadian poet Virna Sheard. Published in 1917, its subject is the then ongoing first World War. — Summary by Carolin

Jason in Panama 23 minutes

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Sophia Margaretta Hensley - Woman's Love Letters

This is a volume of love poems by Canadian poet Sophia Margaretta Hensley, also known as Sophie M. Almon-Hensley. The poems are written from the perspective of a woman, and cover besides love also all the emotions...

Heather James and 4 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 164

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017.

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 1 hour 20 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Harry Graham - Misrepresentative Women

After writing two volumes on Misrepresentative Men, in which Harry Graham satirized ancient and contemporary famous men, a volume on the famous ladies was necessary. This volume contains several humorous poems on...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 52 minutes

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Nixon Waterman - Sonnets of a Budding Bard

This is a volume of 25 sonnets by American poet Nixon Waterman. The sonnets are written from the perspective of a school boy, and are very humorous, supported by some excellent illustrations by John A. Williams. —...

Sonia and 6 more 29 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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