Phil Schempf

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Griffith Alexander - Life

«What is life?» we ask. «Just one darned thing after another,» the cynic replies. Yes, a multiplicity of forces and interests, and each of them, even the disagreeable, may be of real help to us. It's good for a dog,...

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John Huston Finley - Soldiers' Recessional

Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribner’s Sons (from the forward)

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R. Nathaniel Dett - Rubinstein Staccato Etude

This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While...

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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

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Margaret Steele Anderson - Michael Angelo's "Dawn"

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Michael Angelo's «Dawn» by Margaret Steele Anderson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2019. — Dawn is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist...

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Samuel Rogers - Wish

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His...

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George Parsons Lathrop - Voice of the Void

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Voice of the Void by George Parsons Lathrop. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — George Parsons Lathrop was an American poet, novelist,...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solar Eclipse

A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. — Summary by David Lawrence

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James Elroy Flecker - Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon

Of all recent poets of his kind, Flecker is the most successful. The classical tradition of poetry has been mocked and mutilated by many of the noisy young in the last few years. Flecker was a poet who preserved the...

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christmas Conversion

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by...

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D. H. Lawrence - Afternoon in School - the last lesson

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of...

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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...

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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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