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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Canadian Summer Evening

From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression if we gave it to be understood that all her time was passed in the writing of...

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Henry Lawson - When Your Pants Begin To Go

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is...

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Essays & Short Works

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Henry Clement Notcutt - Interpretation of Keats's Endymion

Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critical reception was almost universally hostile. Since that time, many readers...

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Coo-ee Reciter

Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practice in addressing groups in public, but also provided models for the study of...

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 173

This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.

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Omar Khayyám - Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam

In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This version is in prose and the collection contains 464 verses....

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Sara Teasdale - In A Subway Station

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

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John Drinkwater - Symbols

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke...

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Aldous Huxley - Wheels - The Second Cycle

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, published in 1917, contains poems by the Sitwells and also Aldous Huxley, among...

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Sara Teasdale - Driftwood

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Margaret Steele Anderson - To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic

Margaret Steele Anderson's tribute to the men left on board the doomed ship, some of whom followed the «Women and children first» tradition of the sea. — Summary by David Lawrence

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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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