Michele Fry

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Anthologies

Otto Leland Bohanan - Book of American Negro Poetry

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was...

Jim Locke and 9 more 5 hours 4 minutes

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Poetry

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Dorothy Parker - Men I'm Not Married To

A saucy little poem commenting upon all men that Ms. Parker didn't marry, perhaps implying (it's a bit ambiguous) that upon marrying, the husband becomes far more special than all the other men in the world. It's sort...

David Lawrence and 7 more 15 minutes

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Science

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Insect Adventures

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and using his exceptional...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 12 more 5 hours 52 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Slave In The Dismal Swamp

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow...

Algy Pug and 12 more 23 minutes

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Poetry

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Thomas Carew - Song: Eternity of Love Protested

Thomas Carew (pronounced «Carey») (1595 — 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included...

Algy Pug and 18 more 22 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edgar Allan Poe - Haunted Palace

«The Haunted Palace» originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, «The Fall of the House of Usher,» and published in it in Burton's...

Algy Pug and 16 more 45 minutes

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World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 16 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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History

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin

After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all...

Michele Fry and 9 more 26 hours 57 minutes

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Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Single author

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon her, accusing her of being a «moral Clytemnestra» (wife of Agamemnon, who...

Algy Pug and 13 more 57 minutes

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Poetry

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Frances E. W. Harper - Poems

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an influential female African American poet. Her poetry often deals with themes of freedom, discrimination, hatred, and injustice. Her poetry remains relevant to this day, and is still...

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Robert Southey - Stanzas Written in His Library

Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909. This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased...

Algy Pug and 18 more 28 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Four Winds

In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was «made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society»; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer...

Algy Pug and 15 more 16 minutes

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New

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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