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Henry Lawson - Shakedown on the Floor

Despite the bittersweet outcome of the romance in this work, the poem still manages to conclude in an uplifting fashion. — Summary by SonOfTheExiles

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Sonnets

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Sonnet 29

LibriVox volunteers bring you 32 recordings of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 23, 2019. — A perennial Shakespeare favorite. The sober, almost depressed...

Brian Dirkx and 31 more 41 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Conversion

Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated «the grand passion»—love. A few of those are of...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Love's Language

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Love's Language, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — One of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most beautiful and passionate...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 40 minutes

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Single author

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Endymion

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 40 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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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...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress (version 2)

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John...

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To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

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Phillis Wheatley - To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. — The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro...

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

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Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Anonymous - Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. — This poem was published in booklet form...

Aleacia Messiah and 13 more 36 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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