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By: Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) | |
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By: Adam L. (Adam Luke) [Editor] Gowans | |
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By: Charles H. Bennett (1829-1867) | |
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By: A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen (1857-1920) | |
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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: John Oxenham (1852-1941) | |
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By: George Crabbe (1754-1832) | |
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By: Francis T. Palgrave (1824-1897) | |
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![]() Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed. This book is a delightful one to listen to with family or friends. You're sure to find something to relate to in these wonderful poems. |
By: Elizabeth Anderson | |
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By: Ruth McEnery Stuart (1856-1917) | |
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By: Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) | |
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![]() This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. |
By: Francis Thompson (1859-1907) | |
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By: Stephen Langdon (1876-1937) | |
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By: George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) | |
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By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) | |
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By: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935) | |
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By: Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) | |
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By: William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) | |
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By: Thomas Gray (1716-1771) | |
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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: Edward Young (1683-1765) | |
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![]() MANUAL OF SURGERY, OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONSBY ALEXIS THOMSON, F.R.C.S.Ed.PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION Much has happened since this Manual was last revised, and many surgical lessons have been learned in the hard school of war. Some may yet have to be unlearned, and others have but little bearing on the problems presented to the civilian surgeon. Save in its broadest principles, the surgery of warfare is a thing apart from the general surgery of civil life, and the exhaustive literature now available on every aspect of it makes it unnecessary that it should receive detailed consideration in a manual for students... |
By: Frederic W. Moorman (1872-1919) | |
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By: Philip Sidney (1554-1586) | |
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By: Bertha Upton (1849-1912) | |
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By: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | |
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![]() 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. |
By: Nikolaj Velimirović (1880-1956) | |
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By: Robert Haven Schauffler (1879-1964) | |
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By: Charles Rogers (1825-1890) | |
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![]() Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards." | |
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By: George Henry Needler (1866-1962) | |
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By: William Roscoe (1753-1831) | |
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By: William Henry Drummond (1854-1907) | |
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By: Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922) | |
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![]() Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls’ Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. |
By: Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) | |
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![]() The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the action. Partly on this account, and partly because of the multilayered, intertwined plots, the poem met with considerable contemporary criticism, so Tasso revised it radically and published the revision under a new name, La Gerusalemme Conquistata, or "Jerusalem Conquered," which has remained virtually unread, a warning to authors who pay attention to the critics... |
By: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) | |
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![]() Toru Dutt was an Indian poet, writing in English. Born in 1856, she travelled to England and France, and being a polyglot became fluent in French and English, later in Sanskrit as well. Her works gained popularity and success posthumously. This collection of her poems, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, was published by her father after her death in 1877. This collection is divided into 2 parts: the 1st part contains long poems about the ancient legends of her native land of India, which had been passed on to her orally in Sanskrit and which held much fascination for her, and also implied her desire to return to India... |
By: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | |
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![]() LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of "In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations" by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013.Written during the First World War, this is a poem about love, war and their timelessness by one of the best Victorian novelists. |
By: T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924) | |
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By: Thomas Washington Talley | |
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By: Michael Drayton (1563-1631) | |
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By: John Gower (1330?-1408) | |
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By: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) | |
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By: Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921) | |
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![]() Henry Austin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity.It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul’s, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including “Tu Quoque,” “A Gentleman of the Old School,” “A Dialogue from Plato,” and “Une Marquise... |
By: Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) | |
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By: Thomas Nash (1567-1601) | |
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By: Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1876-1963) | |
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By: Don Marquis (1878-1937) | |
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By: Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) | |
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![]() Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist. She is most widely known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels. Her other two novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces. |
By: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) | |
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![]() "I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...". Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and enjoyed those famous words which begin Kilmer's poem, Trees. There is even a National Forest in the United States named in honor of this poem. Here is a recording of the entire book of poems in which it was first published in 1914. Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for... | |
![]() This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. |
By: William Allingham (1824-1889) | |
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![]() William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. |
By: W. S. Gilbert (d 1911) | |
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![]() This is a subset of the first twelve poems from the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. |
By: Michael Clarke (1844?-1916) | |
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By: Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage (1889-) | |
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By: H. L. (Henry Louis) Stephens (1824-1882) | |
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By: Walter Richard Cassels (1826-1907) | |
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By: Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) | |
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By: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) | |
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![]() LibriVox readers bring you 13 versions of The Poet Who Sleeps by Walter Savage Landor. This was the weekly poetry project for December 1, 2013. | |
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By: Hurlothrumbo | |
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By: Felix Leigh | |
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By: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) | |
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![]() Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," and to her eventual emancipation by her owners. Although some of the poems demonstrate an apparent acceptance of the racist values of the white slave-owning classes (which viewed Africans as savage), Wheatley's considerable talents simultaneously contradicted these stereotypes. |
By: James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) | |
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![]() This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. |