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H. L. Mencken - Ventures into Verse

Better known for his biting satire, Mencken's first book was this small volume of verses. — Summary by Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson and 4 more 46 minutes

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James W. Whilt - Rhymes of the Rockies

The author worked as a dude wrangler Glacier National Park and lived on his ranch near Eureka, Monatana. This is the first book of his poems, which he often recited for the tourists. His other books include, «Giggles...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 56 minutes

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Walter Crane - Sirens Three -- Queen Summer

Walter Crane (1845 — 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them «The Happy Prince and Other Stories» by Oscar Wilde and Edmund Spenser's «Faerie Queene» as well as many collections...

NoelBadrian 49 minutes

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Gerald Bullett - Mice & Other Poems

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. «Mice & Other Poems»...

John Burlinson 33 minutes

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William Roscoe - Selections from Harris's Cabinet

In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to entertain. One of these books, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by...

Phil Benson 1 hour 7 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - Crescent Moon

This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanjali shot him to fame in the west. Originally written in Bengali, the poet...

Anusha Iyer 58 minutes

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Clark Ashton Smith - Odes and Sonnets

Clark Ashton Smith, nicknamed one of the «big three» of Weird Tales (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was also a romantic-style poet, contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a...

Amy Gramour and 2 more 34 minutes

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Ethelwyn Wetherald - House of the Trees and Other Poems

Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor for the Globe and was part of the editorial staff for The Advertiser in...

Roger Melin 1 hour 6 minutes

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A. E. Housman - Shropshire Lad (Version 3)

Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being...

clarinetcarrot 1 hour 7 minutes

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Ann Hawkshaw - Poems for my Children

Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in...

Phil Benson 1 hour 4 minutes

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Bliss Carman - Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the...

Peter Yearsley 1 hour 22 minutes

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Constance Naden - Sonnets

Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural...

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 7 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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