Larry Wilson

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Essays & Short Works

412

Robert Lynd - Book of This and That

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. — Summary...

Tom Penn and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

480

W. S. Gilbert - Etiquette

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 Arthur Sullivan....

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 1 hour 4 minutes

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390

Virna Sheard - April

This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913) — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 11 more 13 minutes

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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

Political Science

426

William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

DrPGould and 7 more 7 hours 10 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Poetry

471

Madison Cawein - Undertones

This is a collection of poems by Madison Cawein. This volume includes some of the magnificent nature descriptions that Cawein is famous for, and can evoke many different emotions with the reader and listener. —...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 1 hour 23 minutes

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Poetry

459

Cale Young Rice - Sea Poems

This is a collection of poems by Cale Young Rice. In this collection, the sea is a recurring theme. The Kentucky poet uses it to express emotions and to paint an atmosphere. — Summary by Carolin

Nemo and 14 more 2 hours 8 minutes

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Poetry

415

Leigh Hunt - Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem

This Poem is the result of a sense of duty, which has taken the Author from quieter studies during a great public crisis. He obeyed the impulse with joy, because it took the shape of verse; but with more pain, on some...

Nemo and 1 more 1 hour 43 minutes

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Poetry

414

Eric Mackay - Lover's Litanies

This is a volume of ten special love poems. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 1 more 1 hour 37 minutes

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548

Alfred Austin - Fortunatus' Song

Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished — if more prolific — late Victorian...

Algy Pug and 16 more 16 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 13, Jan. 27, 1880

Children's Fiction

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 13, Jan. 27, 1880

Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, craft projects and more. This 13th issue of the serial,...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 6 more 1 hour 57 minutes Harper's Young People

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Poetry

428

Short Poetry Collection 193

This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2019.

Phil Schempf and 17 more 1 hour 27 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Frances E. W. Harper - Crocuses

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which...

Bruce Kachuk and 15 more 26 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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