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S.E. Kiser - Father

A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, — Summary by David Lawrence

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Arthur Macy - Mrs. Mulligatawny

Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of...

Caitlin Buckley and 6 more 18 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict...

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Ellis Parker Butler - Whale

His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 17 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Harbour Dawn

Librivox volunteers bring you 11 readings of Harbour Dawn by L. M. Montgomery. This was the fortnightly poem for November 23 — December 7, 2014. — Summary by Rachel

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Laurence Hope - Kashmiri Song

Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore and she left for India in 1881 to join her father. In 1901,...

Ashley and 14 more 17 minutes

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Jenny Grahame - Wedlock

This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. ( Summary by David Lawrence )

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Windhover

«Windhover» is another name for the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air,...

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James Whitcomb Riley - Cup of Tea

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

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Romance

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Rupert Brooke - Day and NIght

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was «vivid». This...

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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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