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Sara Teasdale - Driftwood

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 13 more 11 minutes

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Heinrich Heine - Song

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by...

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John Drinkwater - Tides

This is a volume of poetry by John Drinkwater. The English poet and playwright was a close associate of, among others, Rupert Brooke, before World War I, and continued a successful career as author and playwright...

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Robert Laurence Binyon - Seasons' Comfort

Robert Laurence Binyon, was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Madison Cawein - Shapes and Shadows

This is a volume of poetry by Madison Julius Cawein. This collection contains many examples of Cawein's own particular style of dreamy poetry, strongly characterised by references to mythology and romance. At the same...

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Robert Maynard Leonard - Poems on Travel

This volume of poetry takes the reader, or rather the listener, along on a literary tour through Europe. R.M. Leonard has collected the finest (as of 1914) poems by some of the most celebrated poets of the English...

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Robert Nichols - Ardours and Endurances

This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: «On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster...

Diana Schmidt and 4 more 1 hour 14 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - Outlook Odes

This is a collection of poems by TWH Crosland. While earning some fame as a writer and poet himself, he is today best remembered for the rather shameful role he played in the trial of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 1 hour 59 minutes

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Archibald Lampman - God-Speed to the Snow

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

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Short Poetry Collection 169

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2017.

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Common Golfer

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Edward Powys Mathers - Bamboo Garden

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. He is well known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of One Thousand Nights...

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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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