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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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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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Margaret Steele Anderson - Michael Angelo's "Dawn"

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Michael Angelo's «Dawn» by Margaret Steele Anderson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2019. — Dawn is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist...

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Samuel Rogers - Wish

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His...

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George Parsons Lathrop - Voice of the Void

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Voice of the Void by George Parsons Lathrop. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — George Parsons Lathrop was an American poet, novelist,...

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Lord Alfred Douglas - Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. — Summary by Carolin

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solar Eclipse

A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Emma Lazarus - New Colossus, Version 2

My Grandma's father arrived in this country through New York City, and often spoke to my dad, when he was a boy, of what it was like to first see the Statue of Liberty. Most of my relatives arrived through...

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James Elroy Flecker - Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon

Of all recent poets of his kind, Flecker is the most successful. The classical tradition of poetry has been mocked and mutilated by many of the noisy young in the last few years. Flecker was a poet who preserved the...

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Jean McKishnie Blewett - Christmas Conversion

Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by...

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William Cullen Bryant - October - A Sonnet

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very successful Picturesque America which was published between 1872 and 1874. This...

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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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