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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Castle-Builder

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Castle-Builder by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 25 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Knight - Errant

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight — Errant by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier...

Amy Gramour and 20 more 25 minutes

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Laurence Hope - Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah

Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital...

elliot and 7 more 25 minutes

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Edward Capern - Autumn Invitation

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of An Autumn Invitation by Edward Capern. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 21, 2018. — In 1848 Capern secured appointment with the Post Office as a...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 24 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Ruined Maid

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from...

annie70 and 11 more 24 minutes

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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...

Bill Mosley and 19 more 24 minutes

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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...

Algy Pug and 19 more 24 minutes

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Single author

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R. Nathaniel Dett - Rubinstein Staccato Etude

This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While...

Algy Pug and 15 more 24 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - My Doves

Librivox volunteers bring you eleven readings of My Doves, by Louisa May Alcott. This was the fortnightly poem for December 21, 2014 — January 4, 2015 — Summary by Rachel

Bev J Stevens and 10 more 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Anonymous - Lily Of The West

«Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.» — Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

Caitlin Buckley and 10 more 23 minutes

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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 23 minutes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Slave In The Dismal Swamp

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow...

Algy Pug and 12 more 23 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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