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Alfred Austin - Fortunatus' Song

Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished — if more prolific — late Victorian...

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Rudyard Kipling - I Keep Six Honest Serving-men

This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

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Robert Herrick - Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not...

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Joseph Horatio Chant - My Lot

Joseph Horatio Chant was born at Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, England. His parents moved to Canada in 1840, and settled in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Chant attended schools in the area and upon graduation taught for two...

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Henry Lawson - Shakedown on the Floor

Despite the bittersweet outcome of the romance in this work, the poem still manages to conclude in an uplifting fashion. — Summary by SonOfTheExiles

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 196

This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2019.

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

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Romance

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Arthur Symons - Rain On The Down

Our Valentine Poem is by Arthur William Symons, a British poet, critic and magazine editor., taken from his collection Silhouettes (1896). — Summary by David Lawrence

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Brian Howard - Wheels - The Sixth Cycle

The sixth and final cycle of Wheels was published in 1921, and is much shorter than the preceding volumes. Apart from the three Sitwells, the poets represented are Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Sherard Vines,...

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Aldous Huxley - Wheels - The Fifth Cycle

The Fifth Cycle of the Wheels poetry anthology was published in 1920 and contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Leah McTavish Coehn, Geoffrey Cookson, William Kean Seymour, John J. Adams, Sherard Vines, and...

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Henry Kendall - On a Cattle Track

Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his—Adam Lindsay...

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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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