Early Rising


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2010.

The words "dutiful" and "pious" never applied to the aspiring satirist. Bored by his legal work, Saxe began publishing poems for The Knickerbocker, of which "The Rhyme of the Rail" is his most famous early work. He soon caught the attention of the prominent Boston publishing house, Ticknor and Fields. Though he received no royalties for his first volume, it ran to ten reprintings and eventually outsold works by Hawthorne and Tennyson. (0 hr 43 min)

Chapters

Early Rising - Read by BC 2:21 Read by BlackCat
Early Rising - Read by CC 2:45 Read by Chris Caron
Early Rising - Read by DL 3:08 Read by David Lawrence
Early Rising - Read by DRB 3:00 Read by David Barnes
Early Rising - Read by GHS 2:57 Read by Algy Pug
Early Rising - Read by JC 2:22 Read by Joshua Commander
Early Rising - Read by JCM 3:10 Read by Jason Mills
Early Rising - Read by JM 3:23 Read by Jannie Meisberger
Early Rising - Read by JSK 2:46 Read by J.S. Kenney
Early Rising - Read by LAH 2:53 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Early Rising - Read by LED 2:45 Read by Levi
Early Rising - Read by LLW 3:14 Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Early Rising - Read by ND 2:56 Read by Zloot
Early Rising - Read by TG 2:53 Read by TriciaG
Early Rising - Read by WT 2:34 Read by Winston Tharp