Poetry
The Ships that Won't Go Down
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …
The Miller's Daughter
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of The Miller's Daughter by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project …
Vairagya Shatakam
Read by Uday Sagar
Bhartṛhari
Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the…
The Hag
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Robert Herrick
A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. …
Short Poetry Collection
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Various
This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-D…
Anyhow Stories
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Lucy Clifford
A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z
Read by Sam Stinson
Various
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the …
A Song from the Suds
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Louisa May Alcott
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 fo…
The Haunted Palace
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Edgar Allan Poe
"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…
Music On Christmas Morning
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Anne Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Music On Christmas Morning by Anne Brontë.Published in the 1846 collection Poems By Curr…
Liber Amoris
Read by Nick Duncan
William Hazlitt
Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…
Life
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Emily Dickinson
Poem XXI: "A Book", read by the wonderful podcasters at the Podcasters Across Borders 2006 conference, in Kingston, Ontario, June …
The Bab Ballads
Read by Graham Redman
W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …
Songs of a Sourdough
Read by Phil Benson
Robert W. Service
Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Columbus
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Joaquin Miller
This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…
Selected Works
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems,…
The Wit and Humor of America
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…
To a Dog
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John Jay Chapman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To a Dog by John Jay Chapman, published in 1917. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Novem…
Selected Poems
Read by Ellis Christoff
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 184…