Vanessa Garcia

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

Algy Pug and 9 more 18 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

ashleighjane and 13 more 17 minutes

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Priest's Brother

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

ALMcClain and 7 more 23 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Elliot Griffis - Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks

A darling collection of Dutch fairy tales presented by William Griffis. Starting with The Entangled Mermaid and ending with Why the Stork Loves Holland, these 20 stories are all entertaining and well written. Children...

Jonathan Hooker and 17 more 5 hours 29 minutes

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

ashleighjane and 16 more 27 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Song from the Suds

Librivox volunteers bring you 16 readings of A Song from the Suds, by Louisa May Alcott, author of novels like Little Women. This was the fortnightly poem for June 7-21, 2015.

Chris Pyle and 15 more 23 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Wasted Day

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

BenBaril and 17 more 22 minutes

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Belfry Pigeon

Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the...

Angela Little and 13 more 35 minutes

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Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen - Rock Me to Sleep

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen was an American author, journalist and poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

Adele de Pignerolles and 16 more 56 minutes

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Romance

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune, A Novel

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime...

chocmuse and 8 more 20 hours 9 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Happy Jack

The adventures and perils of Happy Jack the Squirrel in the Green Forest, co-starring Happy Jack's cousins Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk, friends Sammy Jay, Tommy Tit, Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, and...

Carina Pereira and 8 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Poetry

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Robert Frost - Hillside Thaw

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.

Dean McCollaum and 9 more 23 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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