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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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George Murray - Poems

George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry,...

Tomas Peter and 8 more 5 hours 56 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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Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert - Windfall and Waterdrift

This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period which has little sympathy with tenderness of feeling and simplicity of...

Arthur Krolman 1 hour 50 minutes

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D. H. Lawrence - Amores: Poems

Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collections. The poems in this collection are characterized by haunting and dark...

NoelBadrian and 4 more 1 hour 40 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 - Cecil's Own Book

Ann Hawkshaw's fourth and final collection was published privately and named for her young grandson, Cecil Wedgwood. Written for children, the volume alternates prose with poetry and is lighter in tone than her...

Phil Benson 2 hours 37 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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Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

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Thomas Hardy - Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd ....

John Burlinson and 2 more 3 hours 42 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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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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