Claudia Salto

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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...

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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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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2.

Language learning

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Aesop - Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2.

A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community! The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent...

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Andrew Lang - Romance

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land . Interestingly, Lang initially refused permission for his words to...

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Madison Cawein - Time and Death and Love

Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the «Keats of Kentucky». This Weekly poem was published in his book «Shapes and...

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Grantland Rice - Vanished Country

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 readings of The Vanished Country , Grantland Rice's bittersweet reflection on life. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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Jessie Pope - Valentine (From an old Lover)

Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems published during World War I. This poem is from Paper Pellets (1907), an...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - May Song

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and...

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Henry Lawson - Ships that Won't Go Down

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's...

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Age of the Motored Things

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and...

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George MacDonald - Bell Upon Organ

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll....

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Lewis Carroll - Valentine

This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (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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