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By: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) | |
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By: Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) | |
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By: Madison Cawein (1865-1914) | |
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![]() Librivox volunteers bring you ten readings of September by Madison Cawein. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 21st, 2014. | |
![]() Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". Note: In Greek mythology, Hippocrene was the name of a spring on Mt... | |
![]() Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". This Weekly poem was published in his book "Shapes and Shadows". (1898) |
By: Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Sangster (1894-1981) | |
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By: Margaret Sidney (1844-1924) | |
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By: Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?-1845) | |
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By: Maria J. Moss | |
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By: Maria L. Stewart | |
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By: Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) | |
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![]() Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879 shortly before her death—is a collection of those speeches as well as her memoir, some meditations and prayers. They are political, poetical and sermon all at the same time; but in the mileu in which she lectured, they were a critically important part of the abolitionist movement years before the contributions of others such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth... |
By: Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
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![]() In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore, as it was entirely unauthorized, she later accepted the edition as well made and used it as the basis for her own 1924 publication of Obersvations. Moore’s unique poetry matches the experimentation underway during the American Modernist movement. Much of it incorporates seemingly out-of-place quotations into complex free verse that often uses Nature as a subject matter... |
By: Marietta Holley (1836-1926) | |
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![]() This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. |
By: Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885-1970) | |
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By: Mark Lemon (1809-1870) | |
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![]() Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London, whilst at the same time he was contributing to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and was founding editor of both Punch and The Field. |
By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943) | |
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By: Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) | |
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By: Mary Electa Adams (1823-1898) | |
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![]() This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women's rights activist and educator Mary Adams. |
By: Mary Gardiner Horsford (1824-1855) | |
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By: Mary Hannay Foott (1846-1918) | |
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![]() Mary Hannay Foott was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem Where the pelican builds. |
By: Mary Kyle Dallas (1830-1897) | |
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![]() LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of He'd Nothing but His Violin by Mary Kyle Dallas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 10, 2013.According to an article in the New York Times, Mary Kyle Dallas was born in Philadelphia, PA and married Jacob A. Dallis when she was twenty. She wrote for the New York Ledger for over fifteen years.A few comments from our readers."What a lovely delicate little piece." (AlanW)"Here is my version of this sweet melodious poem. This one definitely rings a bell with me, as my wife and I were entertainers also (and even still do it occasionally) but not quite under such meager circumstances as this couple." (LenXZ1) |
By: Mary Mollineux (1651-1696) | |
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![]() Mary Mollineux (born Mary Southworth) was probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, differed from many of her Quaker contemporaries because of an early education in Latin, Greek, science, and arithmetic. |
By: Mary Tourtel (1874-1948) | |
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By: Matthew Arnold | |
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![]() “Balder Dead” is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin’s son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. | |
![]() Tristram & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon the Tristram and Iseult legends: which were popular with contemporary readers.The poem opens with Tristram upon his deathbed. The monologue of the dying man is shot through with sharp pangs of regret: centering upon his induced passion for Iseult of Ireland - inflamed by his unwittingly imbibing an irresistible love-potion.Before his decease, Tristram's lawful wife - Iseult of Ireland - arrives in time to share his deathbed... | |
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![]() Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. He is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. This week's poem is the first part of Arnold's Lyric Poem 'Switzerland'. |
By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) | |
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By: Maurice Switzer (1870-1929) | |
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![]() LibriVox readers bring you 16 recordings of "To a Faded Rose" by Maurice Switzer. This was the Weekly Poetry selection for June 16, 2013. |
By: Michael Clarke (1844?-1916) | |
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By: Michael Drayton (1563-1631) | |
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By: Michael Earls (1873-1937) | |
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By: Michael Field (1862/1846-1913/1914) | |
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![]() Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal Works and Days. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. | |
![]() Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal Works and Days. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. |
By: Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) | |
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By: Mr. (Leonard) Welsted (1688-1747) | |
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By: Mrs. Warner-Sleigh | |
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By: Nancy Byrd Turner (1880-) | |
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By: Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) | |
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![]() Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. | |
![]() Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. |
By: Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626?) | |
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By: Nikolaj Velimirović (1880-1956) | |
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By: Nora Archibald Smith (1859-1934) | |
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By: Norman Gale (1862-1942) | |
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By: Novalis | |
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![]() “Hymns to the Night” is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé. This version (1897) was translated by influential fantasy author and novelist George MacDonald, who cited it as a great – and early – inspiration. |
By: Olive Custance (1874-1944) | |
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By: Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968) | |
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By: Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) | |
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By: Oliver Herford (1863-1935) | |
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![]() The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the poems in this book are intended for kittens rather than children! | |
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By: Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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![]() This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiece" describes the "logical" outcome of building an object (in this case, a two-wheeled carriage called a shay) that has no weak points. The economic term "one hoss shay," referring to a certain model of depreciation, derives its name from this poem. "How the Old Horse Won the Bet" is a lighthearted look at a horse race. Finally, "The Broomstick Train" is a wonderfully Halloween-y explanation of how an electric tram really works. | |
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