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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Libation-Bearers (Morshead Translation)

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The...

Expatriate 1 hour 10 minutes Oresteia

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Collection of Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord

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John Wesley - Collection of Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord

A collection of poems reflecting on Christmas and the New Year, written by the founder of the Methodist denomination.

MaryAnn 42 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

Algy Pug and 9 more 18 minutes

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Single author

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Robert Frost - Mountain Interval

Originally published in 1916 and revised in 1920, Mountain Interval is Robert Frost's third collection of solo poetry. In it, Frost reflects on human tragedies and fears, expresses his reaction to the complexities...

Keith Louis and 7 more 1 hour 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Joyce Kilmer - Main Street, and Other Poems

This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. — Summary by Carolin

Sonia and 8 more 57 minutes

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James Russell Lowell - Present Crisis

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 1 hour

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Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of...

ABabington and 11 more 15 minutes

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

ABabington and 13 more 18 minutes

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Hamlin Garland - In the Autumn Grass

LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015.

Algy Pug and 14 more 19 minutes

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Augusta Webster - Mother and Daughter

Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a mother and her only child. As well as reflecting on aging and mortality, the...

Newgatenovelist 48 minutes

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Poetry

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Christina Rossetti - Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book

One hundred and twenty six beautifully written poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. — Summary by Maggie Travers

Maggie Travers and 1 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

Algy Pug and 14 more 18 minutes

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