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Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby

Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an «Organization of Youth» to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 10 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...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 40 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Summer's Ending

Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St...

Adriana Ibtisam and 14 more 20 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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E. Pauline Johnson - Erie Waters

«Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her...

annanneass and 9 more 13 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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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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Joyce Kilmer - Alarm Clocks

Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled «Trees» (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of...

Algy Pug and 19 more 23 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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James Weldon Johnson - Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Algy Pug and 10 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Anonymous - Lily Of The West

«Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.» — Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

Caitlin Buckley and 10 more 23 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

elliot and 18 more 27 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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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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