Ian King

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Henry Lawson - Shame of Going Back

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often...

Algy Pug and 16 more 36 minutes

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Thomas Hood - Death-bed

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later...

Algy Pug and 10 more 11 minutes

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Poetry

423

Short Poetry Collection 144

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2015.

David Allen and 11 more 1 hour 1 minute Short Poetry Collections

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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...

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James Weldon Johnson - Deep In The Quiet Wood

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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Anthologies

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J. Earl Clauson - Dog's Book of Verse

It is not surprising that dogs, beloved by so many, have received many poetic tributes throughout history. Here the author has gathered together short verses celebrating dogs. From the well-known poets to the...

Larry Wilson and 18 more 2 hours 56 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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Optimism

This is a volume of Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The topic of this volume is «optimism». — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 16 more 2 hours 1 minute

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Anonymous - Lily Of The West

«Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.» — Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

Caitlin Buckley and 10 more 23 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 143

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

Winston Tharp and 14 more 1 hour 3 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - On the Shore

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did . This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 22 minutes

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Romance

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Rupert Brooke - Day and NIght

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was «vivid». This...

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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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