Poetry
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
Short Poetry Collection 006
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
The Goop Directory
Read by Andrea L
Frank Gelett Burgess
In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of…
Warble for Lilac-Time
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Warble for Lilac-Time by Walt Whitman.
A Shropshire Lad (version 2)
Read by Jon Sindell
A. E. Housman
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …
True Culture
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012…
Slovenly Betsy
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Heinrich Hoffmann
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…
Suppressed Poems
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Friedrich Schiller
This is a collection of poems by German classical poet Friedrich Schiller. These poems have all been suppressed in the past for different re…
The Panther
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Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is &quo…
The Rocket Book
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Peter Newell
The Rocket Book can be listened to while viewing a beautiful facsimile edition at the International Children's Digital Libarary (ICDL): http…
Love in a Cottage
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Oct…
To the Man of the High North
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of To the Man of the High North by Robert Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for No…
Christmas Morning
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Eugene Field
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 12, 2…
The Snowman in the Yard
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Joyce Kilmer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Snowman in the Yard by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February…
Rhyme? And Reason?
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Lewis Carroll
"I have had nor rhyme nor reason" is inscribed on the cover page of this book. These poems are then also some of the most phantast…
O, it was out by Donnycarney
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James Joyce
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of O, it was out by Donnycarney, by James Joyce, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. …
Sonnet 028
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Sonnet 28 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week o…
The Best Thing in the World
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
Байки Леонiда Глiбова (Fables by Glibov)
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Leonid Hlibov
Леонід Глібов набув слави за свої оригінальні байки на української мові. Вiн відомий як один із засновників української літератури для дітей…
EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts
Read by Grant Hurlock
Ann Radcliffe
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in or…