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Edgar Allan Poe - To the River

LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of To the River by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2019. — This Weekly Poem is taken from the Complete Poetical Works of Edgar...

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Thomas Hardy - Ruined Maid

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from...

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William Cowper - Inscription For A Stone

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Inscription For A Stone by William Cowper. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2019. — INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE Erected at the sowing of a grove of...

Brian Dirkx and 17 more 24 minutes

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Will Carleton - Goin' Home To-Day

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

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Sara Teasdale - In A Subway Station

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Griffith Alexander - Life

«What is life?» we ask. «Just one darned thing after another,» the cynic replies. Yes, a multiplicity of forces and interests, and each of them, even the disagreeable, may be of real help to us. It's good for a dog,...

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John Huston Finley - Soldiers' Recessional

Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribner’s Sons (from the forward)

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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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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Slave In The Dismal Swamp

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Year's Spinning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. — Summary by Wikipedia

Dan Gurzynski and 9 more 23 minutes

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T. W. H. Crosland - To The Common Golfer

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. — Summary by Wikipedia

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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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