Single Author Collections
The West
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Francis S. Borton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The West, by Francis Borton.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 30, 2021. ---…
Poems of Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone
Baseball Ballads
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Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought h…
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…
Renascence
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Walter Crane
Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the…
Sonnets and Poems
Read by Josh Mitteldorf
John Masefield
47 poems, most of them sonnets, most on the subjects of beauty and death, touching the mystery just beyond the known. - Summary by Josh Mitt…
The White Canoe and Other Verse
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…
The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
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James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Poems and Ballads
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Swinburne's first collection of poetry, published in 1866, circles around the themes of love, religion (or irreligion) and death. The poems …
Birds
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Various
This is the 35th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Hours of Idleness
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Holy Sonnets
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John Donne
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …
The Calendar and Other Verses
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Irving Sydney Dix
Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …
Verse
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Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and e…
Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife
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Thomas P. Detter
READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt part…
Stars of the Desert
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Laurence Hope
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Pomes Penyeach
Read by KevinS
James Joyce
James Joyce published three volumes of poetry during his lifetime including Pomes Penyeach. This simple booklet was published in 1927 in Par…
Sonnets
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Christina Rossetti
This is an excellent selection of introspective, inspirational and remarkably compelling sonnets from one of the greatest poets of the ninet…
Flower Fables
Read by Cassandra A.M.
Louisa May Alcott
A Queen of fairy subjects asks her Maids of Honor to tell stories while they wait for the sun to rise. Tales including The Frost King of The…
Selected Poems
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Anita Scott Coleman
Anita Scott Coleman was a poet, essayist, short story author, novelist and educator. These poems were published from 1925 to 1929. - Summary…