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Selected Riley Child-Rhymes

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James Whitcomb Riley


Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indi…

Over Every Hill

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; …

The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting…

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Unknowntranslated Bylouise Pollock and Translated Bylouise Pollock


This is the story of an intelligent, upright and generous rooster named Chanticleer. We follow his life from birth to death in this story wr…

Wilderness Songs

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Grace H. Conkling


This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the…

Uphill

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Christina Rossetti


Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with vers…

I Have Desired To Go

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Gerard Manley Hopkins


Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His…

The Black Riders and Other Lines (Version 2)

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Stephen Crane


Written in a purgative frenzy of pure imagination (“They came, and I wrote them, that’s all”), Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and Other Li…

Stanzas Written in His Library

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Robert Southey


Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909.This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding our…

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

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Joel Chandler Harris


26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…

Love-Songs of Childhood

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Eugene Field


This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

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John Mccrae


John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection…

The Romance Of The Commonplace

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Frank Gelett Burgess


Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)

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Lewis Carroll


An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …

Echoes of the Forest

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William Edgar Brown


Twenty-six stories of first nations' origin rendered in English in verse. The author's dedication claims the stories "help us to unders…

How Sleep the Brave



Originally broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service in 1948 on Memorial Day, this program features film star Lew Ayers. Saluting World Wa…

Song (Stickney version)

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Trumbull Stickney


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of "Song" by Trumbull Stickney.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 31, 2022. -…

Crossways

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William Butler Yeats


The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a No…

The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman

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Fay Inchfawn


Published by the Religious Tract Society in London, The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman is a collection of domestic, spiritual, and fanciful po…

Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

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Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

In Darkest Africa

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Charles Harold Herford


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of In Darkest Africa by Charles Harold Herford .This was the Weekly Poetry project for November …

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