Phil Schempf

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Romance

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Franklin Pierce Adams - Women I'm Not Married To

This poem, by Franklin P. Adams, is the sequel to/answer to Dorothy Parker's poem, Women I'm Not Married To, with a decidedly different but equally humorous take on the matter. ( Summary by Michele Fry )

David Lawrence and 11 more 20 minutes

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Panther

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is «widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets». He wrote...

Angelique G. Campbell and 22 more 26 minutes

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Ring Lardner - His Lady Friend

This week's poem is taken from Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner's Bib Ballads book of poetry about his child. In his Forward he says Dear Parents:—Don't imagine, please, It's in a boastful spirit I fashion...

Algy Pug and 13 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

497

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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Poetry

436

Short Poetry Collection 189

This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2019.

Larry Wilson and 17 more 1 hour 43 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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474

Harold Monro - Man Carrying Bale

Harold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, which helped many poets bring their work before the public. In his later years, Monro reflected on whether...

Algy Pug and 14 more 18 minutes

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Sagas

444

R. Eivind - Finnish Legends

One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them «all the stories...

Sonia and 6 more 4 hours 35 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 5, May 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 1 hour 56 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Poetry

436

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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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chesterton's essay «The Contented Man,» Shōtoku Taishi's «Laws» outlining the...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 5 hours 3 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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527

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...

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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

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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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