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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

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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...

Algy Pug and 17 more 18 minutes

Pied Beauty

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

503

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty

In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet «that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6,...

Algy Pug and 15 more 18 minutes

I Remember, I Remember

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

445

Thomas Hood - I Remember, I Remember

«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...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 17 minutes

There's a certain slant of light

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

500

Emily Dickinson - There's a certain slant of light

In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 16 more 17 minutes

Wanting is - What?

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Browning - Wanting is - What?

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social...

Algy Pug and 16 more 17 minutes

To Be a Pilgrim

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John Bunyan - To Be a Pilgrim

From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This was the weekly poem for March 8-15, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

Fortunatus' Song

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Alfred Austin - Fortunatus' Song

Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished — if more prolific — late Victorian...

Algy Pug and 16 more 16 minutes

I Have Desired To Go

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

440

Gerard Manley Hopkins - I Have Desired To Go

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use...

Algy Pug and 19 more 14 minutes

Ruined Reversolet

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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C. J. Dennis - Ruined Reversolet

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Ruined Reversolet by C. J. Dennis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2012. Clarence James Dennis was an Australian poet and journalist. In his...

April Gonzales and 15 more 10 minutes

Deep-Sworn Vow

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William Butler Yeats - Deep-Sworn Vow

This is the weekly poem for the week of 10.01.2016. Have fun. — Summary by Stav Nisser.

Algy Pug and 12 more 8 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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