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Carl Sandburg - Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard

VfkaBT and 2 more 1 hour 29 minutes

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Virna Sheard - When Christmas Comes

Virna Stanton was born in Cobourg, Ontario, the daughter of Elizabeth Butler Stanton and Eldridge Stanton, a photographer. Her brother Eldridge Stanton Jr. and his wife both died at Niagara Falls, in the Ice Bridge...

nighthawks and 8 more 18 minutes

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Charles Hanson Towne - Beyond the Stars

Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the quintessential New Yorker. Besides being the editor at such magazines as Smart...

Nemo 1 hour 2 minutes

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Robert Frost - Mountain Interval (version 2)

Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published by Henry Holt. It was republished in 1920. Frost made several alterations in...

Mister Lukey 1 hour 29 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Next Christmas

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. Thomas was a humanitarian who frequently wrote in his poems about the impoverished and sick and unemployed, especially...

nighthawks and 10 more 36 minutes

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Edith M. Thomas - What The Pine Trees Said

Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who «was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city. (Wikipedia)

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 12 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 197

This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2019. With a number of spooky ones for Halloween!

Larry Wilson and 15 more 1 hour 27 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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The Gawain Poet - Pearl (Coulton translation)

A companion piece to From Jerusalem to Revelations in the Librivox catalogue (https://librivox.org/jerusalem-to-revelations-a-quartet-of-spiritual-explorations-by-unknown/). Pearl, believed to have been written by the...

Tony Addison 1 hour 20 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - You Never Can Tell

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

Algy Pug and 8 more 14 minutes

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Hattie Howard - Tobogganing

«This author's verse shows a hearty, wholesome, human spirit, sometimes overflowing into downright fun, and a straightforward directness always. It is a pleasant book, sure to be welcomed by all.» (EXTRACTS FROM PRESS...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 27 minutes

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John Campbell - Niagara

John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the...

Algy Pug and 8 more 11 minutes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hurrahing in Harvest

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his invention of sprung...

Algy Pug and 10 more 17 minutes

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