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Sara Teasdale - Four Winds

In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was «made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society»; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer...

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Frances Ridley Havergal - Another Year

LibriVox readers bring you 13 readings of Another Year, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for December 28, 2014, to January 3, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Thomas Moore - Oh, Call It by Some Better Name

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of «Oh, Call It by Some Better Name» by Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The...

Cynthia Moyer and 14 more 16 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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E. Pauline Johnson - Fire - Flowers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire — Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected...

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Orlando Gibbons - Silver Swan

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011. Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the...

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To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World

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William Cavendish - To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To The Duchesse of Newcastle, On Her New Blazing-World by William Cavendish. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 11, 2018. — Margaret Cavendish's...

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Bliss Carman - Epilogue

In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems. While of little to no scholarly value,...

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William Mackay MacKeracher - Canada, My Land

W. M. MacKeracher was a Canadian poet. This poem celebrating Canada's 150th year of Confederation is taken from Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse by William M. MacKeracher. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Thomas O'Hagan - In The Trenches

Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that «every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity,»...

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Matthew Arnold - Austerity Of Poetry

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social...

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Jean Ingelow - Comfort in the Night

Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects 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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