Leonard Wilson - Listen Audiobooks Online

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James Whitcomb Riley - Cup of Tea

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

Allen Kelly and 9 more 17 minutes

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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...

David Lawrence and 8 more 16 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Pleasure

This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's famous series of poetry. This volume bears the topic «pleasure». — Summary by Carolin

Sonia and 12 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Go Plant A Tree

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines, «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 20 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Spray

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet, who published several poetry collections, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for her Collection Love Songs. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 10 minutes

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E. Pauline Johnson - Homing Bee

It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 13 minutes

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Chan Gardiner - Lineman

This poem by Chan Gardiner pays tribute to the Linemen working on America's high voltage lines, working in dangerous conditions so that the average citizen can enjoy his time at home. (Summary by David Lawrence

Bruce Kachuk and 4 more 13 minutes

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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...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 15 minutes

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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...

Algy Pug and 12 more 16 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

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...

Algy Pug and 13 more 18 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 158

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.

Winston Tharp and 9 more 44 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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George Wither - Rhomboidal Dirge

George Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V. Wedgwood wrote «every so often in the barren...

Brian Darby and 4 more 25 minutes

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