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John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include...

Algy Pug and 11 more 43 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - New Colossus, Version 2

My Grandma's father arrived in this country through New York City, and often spoke to my dad, when he was a boy, of what it was like to first see the Statue of Liberty. Most of my relatives arrived through...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 23 minutes

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Poetry

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Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins - Easter Carols

This is a collection of Easter poems by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins. The poems all center around the Easter holiday, in both a religious as well as a more generally festive tone. — Summary by Carolin

Michelle Grebe and 3 more 23 minutes

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Lucy Larcom - Easter Gleams

This is a collection of Easter poems by Lucy Larcom. The poems cover the entire circle of religious holidays, customs, and bible verses around Easter. — Summary by Carolin

Bruce Kachuk and 2 more 44 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Amanda Minnie Douglas - Easter Lily

This is a volume of five short stories for Children. Each of them contains a cute little learning experience and a happy end. — Summary by Carolin

Melissa Perry and 3 more 1 hour 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 167

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017.

JasonIvey and 14 more 59 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Bibles

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Weymouth New Testament - Bible (WNT) NT 09: Galatians

Some have compared Paul's Letter to the fellowship at Galatia as the «Magna Carta» of the liberty of Christians. It is Paul's passionate defense against a sect known as Judaizers, who insisted Christ's followers were...

23 minutes Bible (Weymouth New Testament)

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Humorous Fiction

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Molière - School for Husbands

In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. «The central situations of the two have much in common: the arbitrary and jealous lover to whom...

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Thomas Hardy - Ruined Maid

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from...

annie70 and 11 more 24 minutes

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Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Poetry

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Sappho - Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries...

Eva Davis 1 hour 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Michael Field - Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also...

KHand and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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George R. Sims - In The Workhouse: Christmas Day

George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 15 minutes

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