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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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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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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress (version 2)

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John...

Amelia Chesley and 12 more 38 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Sleeper

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of...

Algy Pug and 9 more 37 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

Algy Pug and 13 more 36 minutes

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Kate Seymour MacLean - Thanksgiving

A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881) — Summary by David Lawrence

aravagarwal and 16 more 36 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

518

Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This speech is now considered one of the greatest in American...

Ann Boulais and 14 more 35 minutes

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Belfry Pigeon

Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the...

Angela Little and 13 more 35 minutes

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Ghosts of Night

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett published her first novel, Out of the Depths in 1879. In 1896, she won a $600 prize from the Chicago Times-Herald for her poem «Spring»....

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 34 minutes

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Henry Kendall - God Help Our Men at Sea

Kendall was born in a settler's hut by Yackungarrah Creek near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. He was registered as Thomas Henry Kendall, but never appears to have used his first name. His three volumes of...

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Power of the Dog

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making...

Andy Harrington and 12 more 31 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Men Who Live It Down

MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town and Country Journal, Evening News, World's News, Australian Star, Amateur...

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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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