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William Butler Yeats - Fiddler of Dooney

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011 William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright....

Bob Gonzalez and 16 more 19 minutes

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Anne Brontë - Appeal

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5, 2012. Appeal appears in 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,' the first book ever...

Chris Caron and 23 more 19 minutes

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Ben Jonson - Simplex Munditiis

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 26, 2012. Ben Jonson was an English poet and playwright. He had a huge influence on...

Amy Gramour and 19 more 19 minutes

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Walt Whitman - When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Whitman claimed that after years of competing for «the usual rewards», he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Pool

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Pool by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 20, 2012. Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an African...

ashnight1214 and 19 more 19 minutes

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Emily Dickinson - Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a...

Algy Pug and 17 more 18 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Symphony in Yellow

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012. Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is...

Algy Pug and 20 more 18 minutes

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Alice Meynell - Moon To The Sun

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth...

Algy Pug and 15 more 18 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Where Go the Boats

Where Go the Boats is a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a Scottish author famous for writing Treasure Island. He also wrote many poems, including this one, which was published in A Child's Garden of...

James Koss and 20 more 18 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Don Quixote

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He...

Algy Pug and 14 more 18 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Old Inn

Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 18 minutes

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William Cullen Bryant - Midsummer

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013. This poem taken from the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Household...

Dean McCollaum and 14 more 18 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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