In Midsummer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013.This…
In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4
This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …
In Beauty Making
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved no…
In A Night-Rain in Summer
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. - Summary by Wikipedia
In God Bless Us Every One
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet"…
In The Song of the Olden Time
From a relatively early age Moore showed an interest in music and other performing arts. He sometimes appeared in musical plays with his fri…
In A Late Good Night
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and anothe…
In When Father Carves the Duck
Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at…
In An Old Man's Thought of School
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…
In The Disagreeable Man
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The Disagreeable Man by Sir W. S. Gilbert. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 1…
