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Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen - Rock Me to Sleep

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen was an American author, journalist and poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

Adele de Pignerolles and 16 more 56 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Tithonus

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. «Tithonus» doesn't mean a whole lot...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 56 minutes

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Poetry

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Guards Came Through and other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. — Summary by Carolin

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Joanna Baillie - Kitten

Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of The Kitten by Joanna Baillee. This is the fortnightly poetry project for October 26, 2014.

Greg Giordano and 5 more 49 minutes

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Ivan Turgenev - On The Sea

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of On The Sea by Ivan Turgenev. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14, 2019. — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet,...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 49 minutes

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Sonnets

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Fernando Pessoa - 35 Sonnets

While Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa is internationally now known mostly for his masterpiece The Book of Disquiet , he was also an outstanding poet. 35 of his sonnets are collected in this volume. — Summary by...

Anusha Iyer and 6 more 47 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Haunted Palace

«The Haunted Palace» originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, «The Fall of the House of Usher,» and published in it in Burton's...

Algy Pug and 16 more 45 minutes

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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

NOTES: «My Last Duchess» puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a...

ashleighjane and 10 more 44 minutes

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John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include...

Algy Pug and 11 more 43 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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Sonnets

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Sonnet 29

LibriVox volunteers bring you 32 recordings of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 23, 2019. — A perennial Shakespeare favorite. The sober, almost depressed...

Brian Dirkx and 31 more 41 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Conversion

Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated «the grand passion»—love. A few of those are of...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 40 minutes

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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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