Poetry
Fumes of Formation
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poems and prose are unique, and her determination to write saw her publish two novels and two volumes of verse in he…
Nephelidia
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Note: "Nephelidia" means "Cloudlets&qu…
A Thrush Before Dawn
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Alice Meynell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of A Thrush Before Dawn by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…
Heaven
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Rupert Brooke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Heaven by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 16th, 2008…
The Beecher Beached
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John B. Tabb
Father John Banister Tabb was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English. Father Tabb (as he was commonly known) was …
The Cuisine
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, who was considered a popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she express…
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…
The Charm
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Rupert Brooke
To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. "As to his talk" — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — &…
The Flood
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John Clare
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countrys…
The Willows
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Bret Harte
The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe.Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short f…
Lyrics of Earth
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Archibald Lampman
This is a volume of nature poetry by Canadian poet Archibald Lampman. Lampman is considered one of the most distinguished poets of his time,…
Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time
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Katharine Tynan Hinkson
This is a volume of poetry by Irish poet and writer Kathrine Tynan about World War I. Published in 1917, the poems translate the general atm…
Sonnets of a Budding Bard
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Nixon Waterman
This is a volume of 25 sonnets by American poet Nixon Waterman. The sonnets are written from the perspective of a school boy, and are very h…
Christmas Fancies
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. H…
The Brother Avenged, and Other Ballads
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George Borrow
This is a series of ten narrative poems by George Borrow. They capture the spirit of epic poetry perfectly, set in medieval times and tellin…
By the Sea, and Other Verses
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Hannah Lavinia Baily
This is a collection of poetry by Hannah Lavinia Baily. They describe a number of different settings, prominently the sea in the titular poe…
A Canadian Summer Evening
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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression …
You Never Can Tell
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…
Ausgewählte Gedichte
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Adam Oehlenschläger
Adam Oehlenschläger war ein dänischer Dichter, der zu seiner Zeit äußerst populär war, inzwischen aber eher in Ver…
The Crocuses
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Frances E. W. Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of socia…