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Poetry

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John Donne - Death Be Not Proud

This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and...

Andrew Miller and 10 more 16 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Bliss Carman - Vagabond Song

LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different recordings of A Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman, to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 24th, 2006.

Andrea L and 14 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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Ernest Fenollosa - Cathay

The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any...

Alan Davis Drake 41 minutes

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Poetry

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Caedmon - Caedmon's Hymn

Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream. Cædmon’s only known...

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 17: Esther

Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient to his counsels, and anxious to...

Esther 32 minutes

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Poetry

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Barbara Frietchie

This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)

Kristin Hughes and 3 more 13 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Art and Heart

This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem,...

Alan Davis Drake and 37 more 1 hour 10 minutes

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Sonnets

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Helen Hunt Jackson - Calendar of Sonnets

Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet for each month of the year, devoted simply and beautifully to the shifting...

Fox in the Stars 15 minutes

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John Masefield - Ballad of John Silver

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of A Ballad of John Silver , by John Masefield, to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of...

Cori Samuel and 8 more 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Virgil - Eclogues

This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic...

Cori Samuel 1 hour 8 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Jerry Bonnell - Golden mean to 5000 digits

The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a is to the shorter segment b. In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are...

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War & Military

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Sun Tzu 孙武 - Art of War

«The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work...

Moira Fogarty 1 hour 12 minutes

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