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Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jean de La Fontaine - Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2)

This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories which were originally written in French by Jean de la Fontaine, these quirky...

Rosslyn Carlyle 38 minutes

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Edward Woodley Bowling - Climber's Dream

Edward Woodley Bowling was apparently a rector at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England in the late 1800's, this poem is taken from Sagittulae, Random Verses. In this book's...

Anders Stigö and 9 more 38 minutes

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - To A Skylark

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight recordings of «To A Skylark.» This is the Fortnightly Poetry for August 8, 2014. To A Skylark was completed by Shelley in late June 1820. It was inspired by an evening walk in...

Algy Pug and 7 more 37 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Shame of Going Back

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often...

Algy Pug and 16 more 36 minutes

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of «O Captain! My Captain!» This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. «O Captain! My Captain!» is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt...

Ben Adams and 17 more 36 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Eulalie Osgood Grover - Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales

This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stories have been written by cats and address the queen, many of them are...

Rosslyn Carlyle 34 minutes

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Ghosts of Night

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett published her first novel, Out of the Depths in 1879. In 1896, she won a $600 prize from the Chicago Times-Herald for her poem «Spring»....

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 34 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 134

This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014.

Ian King and 7 more 33 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Henry Kendall - God Help Our Men at Sea

Kendall was born in a settler's hut by Yackungarrah Creek near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. He was registered as Thomas Henry Kendall, but never appears to have used his first name. His three volumes of...

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Archibald Lampman - In November

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 29 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solitude (Wilcox)

«Laugh, and the world laughs with you; .. Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, .. But has trouble enough of its own.» Librivox volunteers bring you sixteen readings of...

Algy Pug and 15 more 25 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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