Christie Crews

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Priest's Brother

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Autumn Fires

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires , from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses . This was the weekly poetry project for October 18-24, 2015.

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Song of Autumn

Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. — Summary by Wikipedia

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William Vaughn Moody - Harmonics

William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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Leroy F. Jackson - Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes

This is a Nursery Rhyme Book with lots of delightful short, rhyming stories that are meant to be read aloud to small children. They are vintage rhymes, most from the 1800s. Each section has about 5 minutes of rhymes.

Christie Crews and 4 more 1 hour 13 minutes

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Adelaide Anne Procter - Three Rulers

Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy,...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 19 minutes

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Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Biography & Autobiography

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Jean S. Remy - Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history — quite literally! From Washington to Jackson to Cleveland to McKinley, Jean S. Remy details the lives of the...

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Sara Teasdale - Leaves

Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere),...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 16 minutes

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Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a second language. Some you will know and love, others you may never have heard of...

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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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