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Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat Miscellany

The translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has remained the most celebrated rendering in English of the Persian poet's work. While several other scholars produced their own translations of...

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Essays & Short Works

449

James Elroy Flecker - Collected Prose

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story),...

Phil Benson and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Poetry

445

Short Poetry Collection 127

This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013.

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

483

Robert Herrick - Hag

A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman...

April Hill and 18 more 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Richard Dennys - Better Far to Pass Away

At this time of year, we dedicate the Fortnightly Poetry project to the fallen in war. This poem, written at a time when the average life expectancy of an officer at the front was a mere six weeks, vividly...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Amy Lowell - Taxi

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)

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Poetry

504

Short Poetry Collection 125

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2013.

April Hill and 16 more 50 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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War & Military

440

(William) Winwood Reade - Martyrdom of Man

William Winwood Reade (1838 — 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—whose summary running head reads «From Nebula to Nation»—is a secular,...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Devil's Bridge

Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Family

533

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

The Little Kentucky «Colonel,» so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love affairs. The main action of this new page of happenings in the life of Lloyd Sherman...

Lars Rolander and 1 more 6 hours 45 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Poetry

550

Short Poetry Collection 124

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2013.

Olivereading and 8 more 47 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

470

Omar Khayyám - Strophes of Omar Khayyám

One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám's quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner's collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls «Strophes.» The...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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