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The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting…
Read by SweetHome
Unknowntranslated Bylouise Pollock, Translated Bylouise Pollock and Unknowntranslated By Louise Pollock
This is the story of an intelligent, upright and generous rooster named Chanticleer. We follow his life from birth to death in this story wr…
The Rovers
Read by Matthew Squaire
Henry Lawson
In Verses Popular and Humorous
This is a volume of humorous poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. - Summary by Carolin
Thoughts
Read by Alan Mapstone
Alfred Castner King
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
Voices
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Chant d'automne
Read by Martine
Charles Baudelaire
In Les fleurs du mal
La compilation de poèmes intitulée "Les fleurs du mal" de Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) fit fureur et scandale d&eg…
A Sound
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
In Donal Grant
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…
Chant of Spring
Read by Newgatenovelist
Elsa Gidlow
In On a Grey Thread
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her…
Chant for Dark Hours
Read by Dani H
Dorothy Parker
In Enough Rope
A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…
04 - The Three Voices
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
Dedication & Preface
Read by Alan Mapstone
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In The Prophecy of Dante
Byron wrote this tribute to the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1819. It envisages Dan…
The Bird-Man
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
William Henry Davies
In Foliage: Various Poems
W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …
A Parodie
Read by Alan Mapstone
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Hebrew Melodies
Read by Laurie Banza
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In A Hundred Great Poems
This is a compilation by Richard Cross of 100 poems by various poets. - Summary by Mozartjr
Voices
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
In The White Canoe and Other Verse
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 Voice
Read by Tomas Peter
Thomas Hardy
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
The Voice in the Night
Read by Andy Sames
William Hope Hodgson
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 062
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…
The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird by Christopher Morley
Read by mleigh
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
After Music
Read by Alan Mapstone
Ivor Gurney
In War's Embers
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…
The Three Voices
Read by MichaelMaggs
Lewis Carroll
In Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
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William Butler Yeats
In The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…