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Thomas A. Copeland
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Christopher Marlowe - Hero and Leander (version 2)
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite...
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John Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by King David (2 Samuel 14-18) to mirror that faced by Charles II. Each monarch...
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Short Poetry Collection 138
This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014.
Shakira Searle
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Short Poetry Collection 139
This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014.
Shakira Searle
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Elegies & Odes
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John Donne - Anniversary Poems
Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In «An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary,» he...
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Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead (version 2)
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman,...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Short Poetry Collection 154
This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.
Shakira Searle
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Francis Godwin - Man in the Moone
A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with modern astronauts' experiences. He finds on the moon a utopia, which he...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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Lord Dunsany - Fifty-One Tales
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)
Thomas A. Copeland
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John Milton - Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's «beloved Son,» Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the...
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Short Poetry Collection 151
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015.
Winston Tharp
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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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