Phil Schempf

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

aravagarwal and 10 more 37 minutes

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Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Anonymous - Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. — This poem was published in booklet form...

Aleacia Messiah and 13 more 36 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Next Christmas

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. Thomas was a humanitarian who frequently wrote in his poems about the impoverished and sick and unemployed, especially...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Truth

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 36 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

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Kate Seymour MacLean - Thanksgiving

A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 132

This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014.

Malcolm Fisher and 12 more 35 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Katharine Lee Bates - Blood Road

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Blood Road by Katharine Lee Bates. This was the New Year's Weekly Poetry project for December 30. 2018. — Katharine Lee Bates was an American writer, poet,...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 35 minutes

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Thomas Frederick Young - Snow Storm

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Snow Storm by T.F. Young. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2019. — Pedantic critics may find fault with my modest productions, and perhaps...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 34 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Wet Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. — This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!)...

Brian Dirkx and 19 more 32 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Picture-Books In Winter

LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Picture-Books In Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. — Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and...

Algy Pug and 25 more 31 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Power of the Dog

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making...

Andy Harrington and 12 more 31 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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