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By: Christopher Morley (1890-1957) | |
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Mince Pie
Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: "If one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these trifles, my answer is that there is no excuse. But a copy on the bedside shelf may possibly pave the way to easy slumber. Only a mind "debauched by learning" (in Doctor Johnson's phrase) will scrutinize them too anxiously." | |
Songs for a Little House |
By: Clara M. Beede | |
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Clear Crystals
Book of 31 short poems dedicated to Soldierboys. | |
By: Clarissa Scott Delany (1901-1927) | |
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Joy
volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Joy, by Clarissa Scott Delany. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 17, 2022. ----- Clarissa Scott Delany was an African-American poet, essayist, educator and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her four published poems are unusual in that she does not discuss specific struggles, but speaks more allegorically. Her work was positively received by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angeline Weld Grimké, and W. E. B. Du Bois. - Summary by TriciaG & Wikipedia |
By: Claude McKay (1889-1948) | |
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Easter Flower
volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Easter Flower by Claude McKay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 2022. ----- Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. - Summary by KevinS |
By: Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) | |
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Old Santeclaus
Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". This poem seems to be a 'moral' version of "The NIght Before Christmas". |
By: Clinton Scollard (1860-1932) | |
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Sprays of Shamrock |
By: Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) | |
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American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany | |
House of Dust: A Symphony
The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements around central images such as Japanese ukiyo-e ("floating world") woodblock prints, touching the reader's senses with endlessly evocative allusions to wind, sea, and weather. In this underlying Japanese sensibility and dependence on central perceptual images, Aiken's poem is similar to poetry of Imagists of the time such as Amy Lowell. Also deeply influenced by the concepts of modern psychology, Aiken delved deeply into individual human identity and emotion. | |
Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems
Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as "1915: The Trenches") speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but even those which don't do so are permeated with a feeling of loss and desolation occasioned by the War. In spite of this pervading pathos, however, these poems are also filled with haunting beauty of imagery, drawn as Aiken so often does from natural images of wind, sea, and weather. |
By: Constance Naden (1858-1889) | |
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Sonnets
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural world, there are subjects to appeal to all tastes.- Summary by Newgatenovelist |
By: Cordelia Ray (1852-1916) | |
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Sonnets
Cordelia Ray was a Black author and teacher. This volume contains 12 of her poems and was first published in 1893. - Summary by Newgatenovelist |
By: Cordenio A. Severance (1863?-1925) | |
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Indian Legends of Minnesota |
By: Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896) | |
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Angel in the House | |
Victories of Love | |
The Children's Garland from the Best Poets |
By: Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) | |
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Revelation
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage. |
By: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | |
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Ballad of Another Ophelia
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013. | |
Look! We Have Come Through! | |
New Poems | |
Bay A Book of Poems | |
Morning Work
volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Morning Work by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 15, 2021. ------ This Weekly poem is taken from Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence | |
Love Poems and Others
This is a collection of poems by DH Lawrence. Most of the poems concern love and neighboring emotions, but some poems also concern other themes. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Damon Runyon (1880-1946) | |
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Last of the Hackdrivers
volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Last of the Hackdrivers by Damon Runyon. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------ Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on a few of his stories. - Summary by Wikipedia |
By: Daniel Bussier Shumway (1868-) | |
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The Nibelungenlied |
By: Danske Dandridge (1854-1914) | |
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Rose Brake
Danske Dandridge was a Danish-born American poet, who is considered one of the major poets from West Virginia. In this volume, 36 of her poems are collected. The poems often read a lot like small fairy tales, and speak of nature, spirits, and emotions. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | |
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New Life (La vita nuova)
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems; it is Dante's way of reconstructing himself and his art in terms of his evolving sense of the limitations of courtly love (the system of ritualized love and art that Dante and his poet-friends inherited from the Provençal poets, the Sicilian poets of the court of Frederick II, and the Tuscan poets before them)... |
By: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) | |
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The House of Life |
By: David Lester Richardson (1801-1865) | |
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Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden |
By: David Morton (1886-1957) | |
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Ships in Harbour |
By: David Rorie (1867-1946) | |
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The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots |
By: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (-2nd Cent.) | |
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Satires
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition). The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter... |