Leonard Wilson

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Christmas Carmen

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, Whittier was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert...

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 16 minutes

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James Whitcomb Riley - God Bless Us Everyone

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....

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 13 minutes

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Thomas Moore - I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

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...

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Thomas Moore - Love Thee ?

This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the irish poet Thomas Moore. — Summary by Stav Nisser.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Kingdom of Love

This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. — Summary by Carolin

Michele Fry and 11 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

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James Russell Lowell - Present Crisis

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 1 hour

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Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of...

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Hamlin Garland - In the Autumn Grass

LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015.

Algy Pug and 14 more 19 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Priest's Brother

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

ALMcClain and 7 more 23 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Autumn Fires

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires , from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses . This was the weekly poetry project for October 18-24, 2015.

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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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