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Edward Capern - Autumn Invitation

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of An Autumn Invitation by Edward Capern. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 21, 2018. — In 1848 Capern secured appointment with the Post Office as a...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 24 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Poet's Hat

St. Andrews, but for its Town Council and its School Board, is a quiet place; and the University, except during the progress of a Rectorial Election, is peaceable and well-conducted. I hope these verses may so far...

Algy Pug and 18 more 22 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Fancies Versus Fads

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 186

This is a collection of 34 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2018.

Newgatenovelist and 14 more 1 hour 8 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Matthew Arnold - Austerity Of Poetry

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 15 minutes

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R. Nathaniel Dett - Rubinstein Staccato Etude

This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While...

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Short Poetry Collection 199

This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2019.

Phil Schempf and 21 more 1 hour 28 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Oscar Wilde - Fuite de la Lune

While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irritated his fellow undergraduates, so that he once became the object of their...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Island Hunting-Song

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 21 minutes

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William Cullen Bryant - To The Fringed Gentian

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the...

Algy Pug and 20 more 28 minutes

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world,...

Craig Franklin and 5 more 6 hours 25 minutes World's Best Poetry

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John Hay - White Flag

John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was...

happilyblue and 17 more 22 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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