William Lisle Bowles

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)


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The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water


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This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …

Short Poetry Collection 194


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This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2019.

On Hearing the Messiah


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Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father Willia…

The River Wainsbeck


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William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic.The Wainsbeck is a sequestered river in Northumberland, having on its banks &quo…