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A Bad Penny

In A Rough Shaking

Read by Alan Schulte


George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

Inscriptions for the Four Sides of a Pedestal

In Astrophel and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Algernon Charles Swinburne


A collection of poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, first published in 1904 and dedicated to the artist and designer Willi…

Don Juan in Hades

In The Flowers of Evil

Read by Alan Mapstone


Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker


Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…

“Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep”

In April Twilights and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)

The Farm

In War's Embers

Read by Alan Mapstone


Ivor Gurney


A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…

The Ballad of Yukon Jake

In Short Poetry Collection 255

Read by Alan Mapstone


Edward E. Jr. Paramore


This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during August 2024.

Memory

In Complete Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Anne Brontë


Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

Appendix II

In A Cabinet of Gems

Read by Alan Mapstone


George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney


A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…

The Fable of the Three Elms (poem)

In The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's …

Read by Alan Mapstone


Ada M. Skinner


A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)

Raising the Devil

In The Ingoldsby Legends, 2nd Series

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Harris Barham


The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…

The Mermaid

In Short Poetry Collection 253

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


This is a collection of 30 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during June 2024.

Robert Burns

In Canada and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Frederick Young


From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…

The Victor of Antietam

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Read by Alan Mapstone


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…

Part 3: The Pope's Pardon

In Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

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