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![]() This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2015. | |
![]() This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014. | |
![]() This is a volume of Christmas poems and carols, by various authors and from various times. | |
![]() 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. | |
![]() This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015. | |
![]() This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2015. | |
![]() A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. | |
![]() This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015. | |
![]() "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." | |
![]() This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2015. | |
![]() This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015. | |
![]() "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. | |
![]() This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2015. Two poems of medium length in this collection: #04 "Copernicus" (13:38) is from the volume "Watchers of the Sky" by Alfred Noyes. #12 "A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth" (14:12). The original text was published as an eight-page pamphlet. In the surviving copy, the bottoms of the pages have been cropped. A total of three lines are therefore missing, and a further three have been reconstructed from their surviving portions... | |
![]() This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2014. | |
![]() Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contained the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progressed in difficulty through the different volumes. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012. | |
![]() This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of 25 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2014. | |
![]() This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2013. | |
![]() This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015. | |
![]() This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013. |
By: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC) | |
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![]() 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: Walter Malone (1866-1915) | |
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![]() LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Walter Malone was born in DeSoto Count, Mississippi. He wrote 2 volumes of poetry before he was 20 years old. He joined his brother in law practice, but continued to publish several collections of his poems over the years. |
By: A. A. Milne (1882-1956) | |
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![]() A timeless collection of poems for the whole family to enjoy, including "Buckingham Palace", "Disobedience", "Halfway Down" and of course, "Teddy Bear", where we're introduced for the first time to Edward Bear, later to become known as Winnie-the-Pooh. Beloved for nearly 100 years, there's no better time to go back to where it all began! | |
![]() This best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne was first published in 1924. The poems describe the adventures of Christopher Robin. In it we are introduced to Mr. Edward Bear later known as Winnie-the-Pooh. The poems are timeless and capture the joy and wonder of being a young child. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker | |
![]() A.A. Milne wrote many poems to entertain his young son, Christopher Robin Milne, who appears to have been about three when "When We Were Very Young" was published. The book is a collection of 45 poems that celebrate a world and a point of view that a very young person could understand and enjoy. It became a best-seller. Christopher Robin is introduced as a character in some of the poems. We first meet him in the Preface, "Just Before We Begin." In it we learn of a swan which he feeds upon a lake and who he has named "Pooh... |
By: A. B. S. (Alfred Browning Stanley) Tennyson (1878-1952) | |
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By: A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley (1856-1925) | |
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By: A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen (1857-1920) | |
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By: A. Novice | |
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By: Abner Cosens | |
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By: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) | |
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![]() LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Abraham Cowley (/ˈkuːli/) was a leading English poet in the 16th century. |
By: Abram Joseph Ryan (1839-1886) | |
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![]() volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Farewells by Abram Joseph Ryan. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2019. ------ Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and, less frequently, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy." - Summary by Wikipedia |
By: Ada Langworthy Collier (1843-) | |
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By: Adam L. (Adam Luke) [Editor] Gowans | |
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By: Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) | |
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![]() Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician. |
By: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) | |
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By: Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) | |
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![]() Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Procter's literary career began when she was a teenager; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism appear to have strongly influenced her poetry, which deals most commonly with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women... | |
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![]() This is the third part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 29 poems by Adelaide Anne Procter. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) | |
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![]() Her death was tragic. Full of the desire of life she yet was forced to go, leaving her work all unfinished. Her last year was spent in exile at Saranac Lake. From her window she looked down on the graveyard — "Trudeau's Garden," she called it, with grim-gay irony. from the forward to Verse, by Claude Bragdon - Summary by from the forward to Verse,by Claude Bragdon |
By: Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) | |
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![]() Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of the ancient world, and closes with the first "country house" poem written by a woman in English. |
By: Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) | |
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![]() LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Mis' Smith,/em>, by Albert Paine. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013. |
By: Albion Fellows Bacon (1865-1933) | |
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![]() This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level of fame in their own right, Ms Bacon primarily as a social reformer and Ms Johnston as an author of children's books. In this volume of poetry, they bring their two sets of skills together to write beautiful verses. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) | |
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![]() Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry. The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts... | |
![]() A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, published in 1917, contains poems by the Sitwells and also Aldous Huxley, among others. - Summary by Algy Pug |
By: Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw (1869-1908) | |
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![]() Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 1856-1905 and published some works including Soldier Songs and Love Songs, 1898, from which our Fortnightly Poem is taken. |
By: Alexander Pope | |
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![]() An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope’s various literary opinions. A reading of the poem makes it clear that he is addressing not so much the ingenuous reader as the intending writer. It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. |