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R. Nathaniel Dett - Rubinstein Staccato Etude

This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While...

Algy Pug and 15 more 24 minutes

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John Masefield - Sonnets and Poems

47 poems, most of them sonnets, most on the subjects of beauty and death, touching the mystery just beyond the known. — Summary by Josh Mitteldorf

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Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

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John Gay - Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London

John Gay's Trivia is a satirical guide to walking the streets of London, written in mock heroic style. Learn how to avoid pickpockets, wig thieves, falling masonry and the contents of chamber pots, and above all else...

Phil Benson 1 hour 9 minutes

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Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon her, accusing her of being a «moral Clytemnestra» (wife of Agamemnon, who...

Algy Pug and 13 more 57 minutes

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Robert Southey - Stanzas Written in His Library

Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909. This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased...

Algy Pug and 18 more 28 minutes

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F. S. Flint - In the Net of the Stars

English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually mastering 10...

Nemo 1 hour 19 minutes

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Theodore Wratislaw - Orchids

Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries. This short collection of verse was first published in 1896. (Newgatenovelist)

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 5 minutes

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Hart Crane - Early Poems of Hart Crane

A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Dealer, Bruno’s Weekly, Bruno’s Bohemia, Gargoyle, The Little Review, The...

Winston Tharp 31 minutes

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Theodore Wratislaw - Some Verses

Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries. This short collection of verse was first published in 1892.

Newgatenovelist 21 minutes

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)

Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 3 minutes

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Grace H. Conkling - Wilderness Songs

This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling — American poet, author and musician — ranges in theme from close observations of the natural world to the loss and desolation of World War I. Having taught English...

Nemo 1 hour 24 minutes

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George William Russell - Homeward Songs by the Way

George William Russell — better known by his pen name «A.E.» — was an Irish writer, poet and mystic, a lifelong friend of William Butler Yeats, and an original member of Ireland's Theosophical Society. In a letter to...

Nemo 59 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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