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Sam Walter Foss - Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American («Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

ashleighjane and 16 more 27 minutes

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Religion

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Mabel Collins - Light on the Path

When Light on the Path was first published in 1885, it became an important work for Theosophists and has remained so ever since. It offers advice for those who wish to follow a spiritual way of living, set out point...

Newgatenovelist 39 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Beauty Making

Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well...

Amy Gramour and 14 more 23 minutes

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Plays

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Lorenzo Da Ponte - Don Juan

Don Juan (Spanish), Don Giovanni (Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine. Although the various iterations of the Don Juan myth show some variation, the basic story remains the same. Don Juan is portrayed as a...

MaryAnn 1 hour 8 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Song from the Suds

Librivox volunteers bring you 16 readings of A Song from the Suds, by Louisa May Alcott, author of novels like Little Women. This was the fortnightly poem for June 7-21, 2015.

Chris Pyle and 15 more 23 minutes

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Joyce Kilmer - Alarm Clocks

Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled «Trees» (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of...

Algy Pug and 19 more 23 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Jack Williamson - Salvage in Space

This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet'...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 4 minutes

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Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

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Ralph Chaplin - Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate...

Ben Adams 1 hour 12 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Wasted Day

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

BenBaril and 17 more 22 minutes

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Belfry Pigeon

Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the...

Angela Little and 13 more 35 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Don Quixote

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He...

Algy Pug and 14 more 18 minutes

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