Early Rising
John Godfrey Saxe
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 |