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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

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George Pope Morris - Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. — George Pope Morris was an...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 43 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...

Bev J Stevens and 14 more 39 minutes

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Frost at Midnight

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He...

annie70 and 7 more 39 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - At A Lunar Eclipse

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of At A Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2019. — While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself...

Bruce Kachuk and 24 more 30 minutes

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Hattie Howard - Tobogganing

«This author's verse shows a hearty, wholesome, human spirit, sometimes overflowing into downright fun, and a straightforward directness always. It is a pleasant book, sure to be welcomed by all.» (EXTRACTS FROM PRESS...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 27 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...

Algy Pug and 14 more 25 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Knight - Errant

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight — Errant by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier...

Amy Gramour and 20 more 25 minutes

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Margaret Steele Anderson - Michael Angelo's "Dawn"

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Michael Angelo's «Dawn» by Margaret Steele Anderson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2019. — Dawn is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist...

Algy Pug and 17 more 23 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - New Colossus, Version 2

My Grandma's father arrived in this country through New York City, and often spoke to my dad, when he was a boy, of what it was like to first see the Statue of Liberty. Most of my relatives arrived through...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 23 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. — Summary by David Lawrence

Andrej Antunovic and 16 more 19 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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