Phil Schempf

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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...

Algy Pug and 13 more 36 minutes

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John Drinkwater - Symbols

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 2, February 1901

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

Jonathan Paul Arnold and 8 more 2 hours 26 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Rabindranath Tagore - Gardener

Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The...

Phil Schempf 1 hour 30 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Driftwood

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. — Summary by David Lawrence

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William Mackay MacKeracher - Canada, My Land

W. M. MacKeracher was a Canadian poet. This poem celebrating Canada's 150th year of Confederation is taken from Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse by William M. MacKeracher. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 191

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2019.

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 2 hours 34 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 01. January 1897

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 01. January 1897

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the following articles: The Gold Coast, Ashanti, and Kumassi, by George K. French All Around the Bay of Passamaquoddy,...

Rapunzelina and 4 more 1 hour 29 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and...

Melanie T and 8 more 4 hours 35 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Robert Laurence Binyon - Seasons' Comfort

Robert Laurence Binyon, was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services. — Summary by Wikipedia

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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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Giacomo Leopardi - To The Moon

Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In...

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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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