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By: Robert Herrick (1591-1674) | |
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Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674[1]) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for his book of poems, Hesperides. Herrick never married, and none of his love-poems seem to connect directly with any one beloved woman. He loved the richness of sensuality and the variety of life, and this is shown vividly in such poems as Cherry-ripe, Delight in Disorder and Upon Julia’s Clothes. | |
Hag
A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late Elizabethan era. This must have seemed quite old-fashioned to an audience whose tastes were tuned to the complexities of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell. His works were rediscovered in the early nineteenth century, and have been regularly printed ever since. | |
Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love
His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not free from exaggeration, is generally free from intellectual conceits and distortion, and is eminent throughout for a youthful NAIVETE. | |
By: Saadi (1210 - c.1291) | |
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Poetry of Sa'di - A Selection
Shaikh Sa’di, also known as Saadi Shirazi, the nightingale of Shiraz, as Jami poetically calls this gifted poet, was born at Shiraz, the capital of Persia, near the end of the twelfth century. By turns, a student, a water-carrier, a traveller, a soldier fighting against the Christians in the Crusades, a prisoner employed to dig trenches before Tripoli. and an honored poet in his protracted old age at home, — his varied and severe experience took away all provincial tone, and gave him a facility of speaking to all conditions... |
By: Sappho (c. 630 BC - c. 570 BC) | |
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Sappho: A New Rendering
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes translations of these fragments, as well as a poem from Ovid's Heroides, "Sappho to Phaon," a fictional letter from Sappho to her assumed lover. |
By: Sophie Jewett (1861-1909) | |
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If Spirits Walk
volunteers bring you 16 recordings of If Spirits Walk by Sophie Jewett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22, 2020. ------ Sophie Jewett also known under the pseudonym Ellen Burroughs, was an American lyric poet, translator, and professor at Wellesley College. Her first book under her own name was The Pilgrim, and Other Poems . Jewett wrote in various poetic forms, including the rondeau, the sonnet, and the ballad. Fellow poet Richard Watson Gilder called her a true poet with a golden gift. - Summary by Wikipedia |
By: Thomas Campion (1567-1620) | |
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Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air by Thomas Campion. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2013.Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. |
By: Unknown | |
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Winter Sport
Librivox volunteers bring you 13 readings of Winter Sport, by an unknown author. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 23 - 30, 2014. | |
Fall of the Nibelungs
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little... | |
Canadian Boat-Song
Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829 "The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished member of a family not destitute of Celtic blood, and which has even been illustrious honour and patriotic feelings and principles, had a high opinion of the loyalty and bravery of the Canadian Highlanders, and left the following translation of one of their boat songs among his papers, set to music by his own hand." | |
Little Star
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star, author unknown, which parodies the previous week's children's favourite The Star. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 31st, 2013. |
By: Various | |
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Short Poetry Collection 118
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013. | |
Short Poetry Collection 130
This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014. | |
Short Poetry Collection 129
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014. | |
Christmas in Poetry - Carols and Poems
This is a volume of Christmas poems and carols, by various authors and from various times. | |
Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century this mode of popularising science was falling from favour as the studies of science and the humanities diverged and study became more specialised.This small selection of somewhat lighter-hearted verse written by distinguished scientists and mathematicians of the day includes poems by James Clerk Maxwell, William J. Macquorn Rankine and James Joseph Sylvester. | |
Short Poetry Collection 148
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015. | |
Short Poetry Collection 144
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2015. | |
Short Poetry Collection 149
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015. | |
Short Poetry Collection 119
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013. | |
Short Poetry Collection 138
This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014. | |
Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 3, September 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." | |
Short Poetry Collection 137
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2014. | |
Short Poetry Collection 139
This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014. | |
Short Poetry Collection 135
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2014. | |
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 1, July 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and articles describing birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." These short pieces are perfect for a first recording or for anyone with a love of nature. | |
Short Poetry Collection 121
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013. | |
Short Poetry Collection 123
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013. | |
Short Poetry Collection 146
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015. | |
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." | |
Short Poetry Collection 120
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013. | |
Travels in Lancashire
A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. |