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Emile Verhaeren - Afternoon

This is a volume of poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren, skillfully rendered into English verse by Charles Murphy. Although the English translation was published during World War I, the French original was...

Sonia and 3 more 42 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 179

This is a collection of 39 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2018.

Winston Tharp and 17 more 1 hour 24 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Bliss Carman - Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman uses to bring out beautiful images of feeling. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 7 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Katharine Tynan Hinkson - Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time

This is a volume of poetry by Irish poet and writer Kathrine Tynan about World War I. Published in 1917, the poems translate the general atmosphere of fear and grief prevalent across Europe into beautiful verses. —...

Bruce Kachuk and 4 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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John Kendrick Bangs - Songs of Cheer

This is a volume of poetry by John Kendrick Bangs. All the poems in this volume share the very positive tone, they discuss happiness, love, and friendship, and can be enjoyed by children as well as adults. — Summary...

BettyB and 11 more 56 minutes

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Harry Graham - Misrepresentative Men

This is a volume of poetry by Harry Graham. Graham was known for his satirical poetry, and this volume is a great example of his art. In this volume, Graham charicatures several famous historical or legendary...

Heather James and 3 more 38 minutes

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Ann Taylor - Rhymes for the Nursery

This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star. Also included...

Jordan Watts 1 hour 24 minutes

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Cale Young Rice - Many Gods

This is a volume of poetry by Cale Young Rice. The poems in this volume reflect Rice's experiences while travelling across Asia, and many of them have, as their theme, a person or incident set in that area or culture....

Larry Wilson and 11 more 1 hour 25 minutes

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Nannie Rebecca Glass - Mountain Spring and Other Poems

This is a little volume of poems of nature and religion by Virginia poet Nannie Rebecca Glass. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 8 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Sandhya, Songs of Twilight

Dhan Gopal Mukerji wrote Sandhya, Songs of Twilight while in San Francisco, as a way to support himself and pay for his college education. This collection of poems has several references to his homeland, India. In...

Anusha Iyer and 4 more 1 hour 20 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 168

This is a collection of 40 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2017.

Nemo and 16 more 1 hour 11 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Edward G. Flight - Horse Shoe

An hilarious telling in verse of the tale of St. Dunstan and the Devil, in which the Saint, angered by the Devil's mocking of his music-making, responds by shoeing Old Clootie forcibly which, despite the fact he has a...

Tony Addison 42 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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