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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Don Juan, Canto 1

Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron's self-imposed exile from England...

Peter Gallagher 1 hour 24 minutes

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George Herbert - From The Temple

George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever...

Kirsten Ferreri 1 hour 23 minutes

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Walter Crane - Baby's Own Aesop

«Baby's Own Aesop» presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each «pictorially pointed» by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who...

Denny Sayers 42 minutes

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New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

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Lydia Maria Child - New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you two different recordings of The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day , by Lydia Maria Child, to celebrate Thanksgiving, 2006. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of...

Betsie Bush and 1 more 5 minutes

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Reference

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Tom Bullock - Ideal Bartender

The book was written by Tom Bullock, a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that a libel suit hinged on the excellence of his drinks. In The Ideal Bartender,...

David Barnes and 4 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 019

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Alan Davis Drake and 13 more 41 minutes

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Law

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George Morang - Copyright Question

This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Trade but was denied. This is his letter in response. He wished to make clear...

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C. J. Dennis - Glugs of Gosh

First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century — but the absurdities it catalogs seem just as prevalent at the start of the twenty-first. The foolishness of...

Chris Goringe 1 hour 26 minutes

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Religion

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Brother Lawrence - Practice of the Presence of God

The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk and head cook in his monastery's...

Kirsten Ferreri 1 hour 13 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 15th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 20 minutes

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Work without Hope

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Work without Hope , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in honor of Labor Day. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 3rd, 2006.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 12 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Where My Books Go

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

AliceG and 12 more 9 minutes

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