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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...

Andrew Coleman and 13 more 22 minutes

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Thomas Hood - Poacher, A Serious Ballad

There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent...

Chris Pyle and 7 more 22 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...

Algy Pug and 15 more 21 minutes

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James Whitcomb Riley - In The Dark

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 21 minutes

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Margaret Fairless Barber - Spring (Barber version 2)

Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey...

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William Butler Yeats - Fiddler of Dooney

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011 William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright....

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 19 minutes

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Anne Brontë - Appeal

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5, 2012. Appeal appears in 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,' the first book ever...

Chris Caron and 23 more 19 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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John Clare - Insects

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 minutes

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Emily Dickinson - Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a...

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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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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict...

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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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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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