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Thomas Moore - I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

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...

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W. S. Gilbert - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur...

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Fantastic Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2013. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer,...

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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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Sara Teasdale - Leaves

Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere),...

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Mountain Song

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine recordings of «Mountain Song” by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The Weekly Poem for August 31, 2014 takes us up to the mountain heights of Norway. (Summary by MaryAnn)

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Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

In honor of Winter Solstice 2014, LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen readings of Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale. This is the weekly poetry reading for December 21, 2014.

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George Pope Morris - Welcome and Farewell

George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song...

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Michael Field - Visiting Stars

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As...

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

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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John Clare - Flood

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

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Madison Cawein - Old Man Rain

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Thus as a child, Cawein became acquainted with and developed a...

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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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