Phil Schempf

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Over Every Hill

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on...

Algy Pug and 11 more 8 minutes

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Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Travel & Geography

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John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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W. S. Gilbert - Etiquette

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan....

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 1 hour 4 minutes

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Virna Sheard - April

This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913) — Summary by David Lawrence

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human society and endeavor: In 1916, Woodrow Wilson declares that «real glory»...

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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

Political Science

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

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Poetry

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Cale Young Rice - Sea Poems

This is a collection of poems by Cale Young Rice. In this collection, the sea is a recurring theme. The Kentucky poet uses it to express emotions and to paint an atmosphere. — Summary by Carolin

Nemo and 14 more 2 hours 8 minutes

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Leigh Gordon Giltner - Path of Dreams

This is a volume of poetry by American poet Leigh Gordon Giltner. — Summary by Carolin

Phil Schempf and 3 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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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...

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 193

This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2019.

Phil Schempf and 17 more 1 hour 27 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Frances E. W. Harper - Crocuses

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which...

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Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

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Robert Herrick - Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not...

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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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