Scotty Smith

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Andrew Barton Paterson - ''In Re a Gentleman, One''

Paterson lived and worked in Sydney for most of his adult life, but his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the iconic figure of the bushman. Influenced by the work of another Australian poet...

Algy Pug and 11 more 36 minutes

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Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney - Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a...

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Mary Macleod - Shakespeare Story-Book

This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. — Summary by kathrinee

Jason in Panama and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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James Whitcomb Riley - Dead Joke and The Funny Man

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. As...

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

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

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 164

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017.

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Benjamin King - Ben King's Verse

This is a volume of Benjamin King's collected verse, published shortly after his sudden death in 1894. The American humorist was very famous during his lifetime, and is still widely referenced and quoted until today....

Larry Wilson and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - At the Piano

Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been...

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Eugene Field - Fairy Glee

This poem is taken from Volume X, A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891. Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

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Harry Graham - Misrepresentative Women

After writing two volumes on Misrepresentative Men, in which Harry Graham satirized ancient and contemporary famous men, a volume on the famous ladies was necessary. This volume contains several humorous poems on...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 52 minutes

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Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu

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Lionel Giles - Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu

If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu, who flourished more than a couple of centuries...

Scotty Smith 2 hours 27 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Late Good Night

Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 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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