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Eugene Field - Dr. Sam

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem «Christmas Treasures» appeared in A Little Book of...

Amanda Veale and 7 more 19 minutes

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James Whitcomb Riley - Cup of Tea

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

Allen Kelly and 9 more 17 minutes

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W. S. Gilbert - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur...

David Lawrence and 8 more 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Poems of Pleasure

This is another volume in Ella Wheeler Wilcox's famous series of poetry. This volume bears the topic «pleasure». — Summary by Carolin

Sonia and 12 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Go Plant A Tree

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines, «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 20 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Spray

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet, who published several poetry collections, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for her Collection Love Songs. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 10 minutes

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Anthologies

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Oscar Wilde - Poems of Oscar Wilde

Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. From his Oxford undergrad days, through his rise to fame and scandal, all the...

Tomas Peter and 1 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

Poetry

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Thomas Hardy - Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd ....

John Burlinson and 2 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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E. Pauline Johnson - Homing Bee

It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 13 minutes

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Chan Gardiner - Lineman

This poem by Chan Gardiner pays tribute to the Linemen working on America's high voltage lines, working in dangerous conditions so that the average citizen can enjoy his time at home. (Summary by David Lawrence

Bruce Kachuk and 4 more 13 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Old Man Rain

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Thus as a child, Cawein became acquainted with and developed a...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 15 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict...

Algy Pug and 12 more 16 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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