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By: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | |
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In The Seven Woods
In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual, colloquial and dramatic than previously. In addition, several poems sound a note of bitter lamentation over the marriage in 1903 of Maud Gonne, Yeats's great love and muse, to John MacBride. |
By: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) | |
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The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets
Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 25 miles through varied scenery before disappearing into the sands between Millom and Barrow-in-Furness. Wordsworth’s series of sonnets, inspired by his walks along the river, were written over a period of years, but are arranged so as to follow its downward course from the fells to the sea. Part One of this reading consists of the 33 sonnets and postscript that were first published as a series in 1820... |
By: Unknown (1179?-1241) | |
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The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda | |
By: Charles Knight (1791-1873) | |
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Mind Amongst the Spindles
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. Mind Amongst the Spindles is a selection of works from the Lowell Offering, a monthly periodical collecting contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female workers of the textile mills... |
By: Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) | |
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains, which was based on earlier English translations, in particular the prose version by Justin Huntly McCarthy. A expanded edition, containing fifty additional quatrains was published in 1901, and this has been used for the present recording. |
By: Various | |
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Australian Miscellany
A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian author, or about Australia, or just have a prominent bit of Australianess in the plot. Failing that: even being performed by Australians will do! :D . |
By: Unknown (70 BC - 19 BC) | |
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The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor |
By: Various | |
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Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl |
By: Wilbur D. Nesbit (1871-1927) | |
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An Alphabet of History
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form!In their original form, the contents of this book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, which newspaper is hereby thanked for the privilege of reproducing this Alphabet |
By: Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) | |
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The Freedmen's Book
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges those who can read to read these stories aloud to others to share the strength, courage and accomplishments of colored men and women. In that spirit, this recording aims to gives that voice a permanent record. As in the original text, the names of the colored authors are marked with an "x". |
By: Unknown | |
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The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds |
By: Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack | |
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Christmas Roses
A beautiful collection of pretty little poems. |
By: Anonymous | |
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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology |
By: Unknown (750? BC - 650? BC) | |
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece |
By: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) | |
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Aeneid, prose translation
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, while the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ victorious war upon the Latins. This is the recording of J.W.MacKail's prose translation. |
By: Esther Nelson Karn | |
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Snowflakes
A collection of poems with varying subjects. |
By: Charles Blanden (1857-1933) | |
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Omar Resung
Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by Justin Huntly McCarthy (1889) and another English version by Frederick Rolfe (better known as Baron Corvo, the author of Hadrian VII), published in 1903. Charles Blanden (1857 - 1933) belonged to the group known as the Chicago poets, the most famous of which was Carl Sandburg. Unlike his celebrated contemporary... |
By: Unknown (1048-1122) | |
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson |
By: Anonymous | |
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The Three Bears |
By: Fulke Greville (1554-1628) | |
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A Treatise of Religion
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocrisy. |
By: Unknown (65 BC - 8 BC) | |
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The Works of Horace |
By: Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) | |
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Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance. Campanella was a philosopher, born when the Counter-Reformation was doing all it could to blight the free thought of the sixteenth century; and when the modern spirit of exact enquiry, in a few philosophical martyrs, was opening a new stage for European science. The one devoted all his mental energies to the realisation of beauty: the other strove to ascertain truth... |
By: Christopher Morley (1890-1957) | |
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Chimneysmoke
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. |
By: Unknown (43 BC - 18?) | |
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II |
By: Various | |
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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol 18, April-September 1921
Spring through Fall 1921 in Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe. 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of Poetry magazine. | |
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two |
By: Unknown (348-) | |
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The Hymns of Prudentius |
By: Various | |
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Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" |
By: Unknown (70 BC - 19 BC) | |
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The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse |
By: Anonymous | |
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The Mouse and the Christmas Cake |
By: Various | |
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Christmas Sunshine |
By: Unknown (973-1057) | |
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The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala |