Poetry

A Chesterton Calendar

by G. K. Chesterton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran 4.8
Language: EnglishThe Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.…

Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Peer is a dreamer, liar, excellent storyteller and an irresponsible person who avoids all problems. He uses and discards women and looks tow…

How the World Works

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4.7
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…

The Raven and Other Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded,…

Paradise Lost

by John Milton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

The Farmer's Bride

by Charlotte Mew Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this e…

Hymns to the Night

by Novalis Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA 4.8
"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Poems of Passion

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Read by Joy Chan 4.9
Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a heartfelt collection that explores the depths of love and desire through evocative verse. Writt…

From The Temple

by George Herbert Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.9
George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…

Paradise Regained

by John Milton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more…

In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

by Walter de la Mare, Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…

The Freedmen's Book

by Lydia Maria Child Read by Rhonda Federman 4.7
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran Read by Adam Santoni 4.7
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare Read by Sam Stinson 4.7
Shakespeare's Sonnets is a profound collection of 154 poems that explore the complexities of love, beauty, and the passage of time. Written …

Some Poems of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Clarica 4.8
A selection of Shakespeare's poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. (Summary by Clarica)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

by William Blake Read by Nick Duncan 4.4
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by David Wales 4.4
Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

A Selection of Poems

by Sir Walter Raleigh Read by Algy Pug 4.8
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also wel…

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