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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Psalm Of Life

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — This poem was first published in the October 1838...

Amy Gramour and 21 more 46 minutes

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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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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Match

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2019. — Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright,...

Brian Dirkx and 17 more 45 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 158

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.

Winston Tharp and 9 more 44 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

NOTES: «My Last Duchess» puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a...

ashleighjane and 10 more 44 minutes

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Henry van Dyke - Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task. Two of the poems, «A Scrap of Paper» and «Stand Fast,» were written in 1914 and bore the signature Civis...

Ian King and 10 more 44 minutes

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John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include...

Algy Pug and 11 more 43 minutes

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Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

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George Pope Morris - Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. — George Pope Morris was an...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 43 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Shakedown on the Floor

Despite the bittersweet outcome of the romance in this work, the poem still manages to conclude in an uplifting fashion. — Summary by SonOfTheExiles

Algy Pug and 12 more 43 minutes

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade

This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a...

Allen Biehl and 16 more 42 minutes

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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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Endymion

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 40 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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