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Short Poetry Collection 144

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2015.

David Allen and 11 more 1 hour 1 minute Short Poetry Collections

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Deep In The Quiet Wood

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Algy Pug and 15 more 21 minutes

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Mary Mollineux - On the Sight of a Skull

Mary Mollineux (born Mary Southworth) was probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, differed from many of her Quaker contemporaries because of an early education in Latin, Greek, science,...

Annalyn and 9 more 14 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 143

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2015.

Winston Tharp and 14 more 1 hour 3 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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John Bunyan - To Be a Pilgrim

From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This was the weekly poem for March 8-15, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - On the Shore

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did . This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 22 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade

This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a...

Allen Biehl and 16 more 42 minutes

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Romance

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Rupert Brooke - Day and NIght

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was «vivid». This...

Algy Pug and 12 more 17 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

H. A. Guerber - Story of the Thirteen Colonies

These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run from the pre-Columbian era through the end of the American War of Independence....

Larry Wilson and 16 more 8 hours 58 minutes

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Declaration

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

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 15 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

elliot and 18 more 27 minutes

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New

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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