Ian King

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Matthew Arnold - Lake

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on...

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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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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,...

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Short Poetry Collection 159

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.

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Victor Daley - Picture

Victor James William Patrick Daley was an Australian poet. He was born in Ireland, and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England. He arrived in Australia in 1878, and became a freelance...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Sentiment

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the topic is «Sentiment». — Summary by Carolin

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Michael Field - July

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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Short Poetry Collection 146

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015.

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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

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Rabindranath Tagore - First Jasmines

Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its «profoundly...

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Watchman and Other Poems

While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon , she also wrote hundreds of poems. Her love of beauty, nature, and the sea is evident in this, the only...

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James Weldon Johnson - Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

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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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