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Aristophanes - Chorus of Women

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This poem is from...

Cynthia Moyer and 15 more 19 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Morning, Noon and Night

Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 14th, 2014. James Weldon Johnson served as U. S. Consul...

Andrei Borissenko and 13 more 19 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. — Summary by David Lawrence

Andrej Antunovic and 16 more 19 minutes

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Walt Whitman - When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Whitman claimed that after years of competing for «the usual rewards», he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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John Drinkwater - Symbols

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Ernest Vincent Wright - When Father Carves the Duck

Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter «e». The biographical details of his life...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 minutes

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Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

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William Wordsworth - Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

This poem is part of the «Ecclesiastical Sonnets,» writen by Wordsworth between 1821 — 22. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Adelaide Anne Procter - Three Rulers

Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy,...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 19 minutes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty

In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet «that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6,...

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Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

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Thomas Moore - Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 18 minutes

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

ABabington and 13 more 18 minutes

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Susanna Moodie - Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land?

Librivox volunteers bring you ten recordings of Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land? by Susanna Moodie. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 16, 2014. Summary by Rachel

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 18 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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