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Sonnets

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Sonnet 29

LibriVox volunteers bring you 32 recordings of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 23, 2019. — A perennial Shakespeare favorite. The sober, almost depressed...

Brian Dirkx and 31 more 41 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Love's Language

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Love's Language, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — One of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most beautiful and passionate...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 40 minutes

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Single author

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Endymion

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 40 minutes

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Poetry

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Emile Verhaeren - Sunlit Hours

The Sunlit Hours [ Les Heures Claires ] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of...

Sonia and 3 more 39 minutes

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Frost at Midnight

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He...

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mrs. Robert Hoskins - Clara A. Swain, M.D.

This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the «first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient.» She graduated from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia and was sent out to India...

Larry Wilson 39 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 39 minutes

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Sam Walter Foss - Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American («Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

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Phillis Wheatley - To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. — The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 123

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013.

Gman and 6 more 38 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

aravagarwal and 10 more 37 minutes

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Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Anonymous - Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. — This poem was published in booklet form...

Aleacia Messiah and 13 more 36 minutes

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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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