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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,...

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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...

Algy Pug and 19 more 23 minutes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - I Have Desired To Go

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use...

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Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon her, accusing her of being a «moral Clytemnestra» (wife of Agamemnon, who...

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Robert Browning - Wanting is - What?

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social...

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 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 8 more 2 hours 10 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Robert Southey - Stanzas Written in His Library

Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909. This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased...

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 072

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Guy de Maupassant, Saki and others to bring...

Peter Thomlinson and 8 more 5 hours 10 minutes Short Story Collections

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Sara Teasdale - Four Winds

In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was «made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society»; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer...

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 2, February 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...

Nemo and 10 more 2 hours 19 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47...

April6090 and 7 more 4 hours 23 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla

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John W. Arctander - Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla

This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. He worked there from 1856 until his death in 1918 at the age of 86. — Summary...

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