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Helen Waddell - Lyrics from the Chinese

Thirty-six short Chinese poems from the 12th to the 7th Century B.C. are translated into English by Irish Poet Helen Waddell. Summary by MaryAnn.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - To A Skylark

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight recordings of «To A Skylark.» This is the Fortnightly Poetry for August 8, 2014. To A Skylark was completed by Shelley in late June 1820. It was inspired by an evening walk in...

Algy Pug and 7 more 37 minutes

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

aravagarwal and 10 more 37 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Next Christmas

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. Thomas was a humanitarian who frequently wrote in his poems about the impoverished and sick and unemployed, especially...

nighthawks and 10 more 36 minutes

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of «O Captain! My Captain!» This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. «O Captain! My Captain!» is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt...

Ben Adams and 17 more 36 minutes

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Short Stories

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Anonymous - Kitty's Picnic and other Stories

A collection of short stories for boys and girls that spark the imagination and teach life lessons. (summary by Ladeebug)

Tihirih Lopez and 4 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

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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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William Henry Giles Kingston - Light of Stars

William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. He was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But...

aniroo and 14 more 31 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

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Walter De la Mare - Listeners

This year's Hollowe'en offering is an eerie tale by Walter de La Mare. ( David Lawrence )

Amy Gramour and 11 more 25 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solitude (Wilcox)

«Laugh, and the world laughs with you; .. Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, .. But has trouble enough of its own.» Librivox volunteers bring you sixteen readings of...

Algy Pug and 15 more 25 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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