Ian King - Listen Audiobooks Online

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Leigh Hunt - Night-Rain in Summer

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 16 more 21 minutes

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Margaret Fairless Barber - Spring (Barber version 2)

Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey...

Newgatenovelist and 7 more 20 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...

Angi Bridges and 13 more 20 minutes

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Poetry

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich - In the Old Church Tower

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 14, 2012. «Very lovely poem.» — Caprisha Page «This seems like a...

Cynthia Moyer and 13 more 20 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Summer's Ending

Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St...

Adriana Ibtisam and 14 more 20 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Marietta Holley - Spring Song of the Swallow

Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of «Spring Song of the Swallow», by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! — Summary by...

Caitlin Buckley and 9 more 20 minutes

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Christina Rossetti - Uphill

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 20 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - My Shadow

Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of My Shadow, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's famous poem concerns a child's shadow, and it's antics. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th,...

Claudia Salto and 13 more 20 minutes

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Adam Lindsay Gordon - Song of Autumn

Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. — Summary by Wikipedia

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 20 minutes

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Bret Harte - Coyote

«He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner,...

Algy Pug and 14 more 20 minutes

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Archibald Lampman - Refuge

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...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 20 minutes

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William Bell Scott - End of Harvest

Librivox volunteers bring you eight readings of End of Harvest, by William Bell Scott. This is the fortnightly poetry project for November 9, 2014.

Chris Pyle and 7 more 20 minutes

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