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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 23 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 39 minutes

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Maidens' Song

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature «as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 12 minutes

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 14 more 16 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

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 35 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 17 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Ring Lardner - Welcome to Spring

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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Medical

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Earl W. Phelan - Radioisotopes in Medicine

Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Written in clear language for the general public,...

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 17 minutes

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Single author

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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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William Henry Giles Kingston - Light of Stars

William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. He was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But...

aniroo and 14 more 31 minutes

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Romance

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Arthur Symons - Rain On The Down

Our Valentine Poem is by Arthur William Symons, a British poet, critic and magazine editor., taken from his collection Silhouettes (1896). — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 15 more 12 minutes

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Family

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Hesba Stretton - Christmas Child

A short sweet, yet sad, Christmas story about forgiveness, but especially about loving others for who they are and not for who we want them to be. — Summary by The Reader

A LibriVox Volunteer 1 hour 3 minutes

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