Maria Kasper

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Joyce Kilmer - Alarm Clocks

Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled «Trees» (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of...

Algy Pug and 19 more 23 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Wasted Day

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

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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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Madison Cawein - Don Quixote

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He...

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History

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Walter George Bell - Unknown London

Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - First Jasmines

Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its «profoundly...

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways

Modern (19th C)

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Oscar D. Skelton - Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways

When the pace of railroad construction slackened in 1914, Canada had achieved a remarkable position in the railway world. Only five other countries—the United States, Russia, Germany, India, and, by a small margin,...

Scott Foster and 2 more 5 hours 6 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Walt Whitman - Hush'd Be the Camps Today

LibriVox readers bring you 16 readings of Hush'd Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. This was the weekly poem for April 12, 2015, to...

Ann Boulais and 15 more 17 minutes

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Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

Family

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Asa Don Dickinson - Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

This charming book has many stories that deal mostly with the holiday of Thanksgiving, perfectly suited for family listening and reading. and gathers in one volume tales of tasty turkeys, festive parties, generous...

kyegrayson and 17 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Deep In The Quiet Wood

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Marietta Holley - Spring Song of the Swallow

Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of «Spring Song of the Swallow», by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! — Summary by...

Caitlin Buckley and 9 more 20 minutes

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Arthur Macy - Mrs. Mulligatawny

Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of...

Caitlin Buckley and 6 more 18 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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