Poetry
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Read by Peter Yearsley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul…
The Prelude
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William Wordsworth
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth pu…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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Various and Edmondo De Amicis
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Gitanjali
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Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very fam…
Miscellaneous Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Come and hear some of the wonderful, magical, fantastic and macabre works of the inestimable Edgar Allan Poe. This collection contains the w…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Read by KevinS
Ernest Hemingway
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse
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Walter de la Mare, Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…
Sappho
Read by Libby Gohn
Sappho
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…
The Hunting of the Snark
Read by Robert Garrison
Lewis Carroll
This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and…
Don Quixote
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Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a c…
The Ramayan
Read by om123
Valmiki
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
Psalm 133
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King James Version
LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of Psalm 133, to celebrate United Nations Day. This was the weekly poetry project f…
Evangeline
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
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Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
African-American Collection
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Various
This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are Africa…
Jerusalem
Read by Nick Duncan
William Blake
The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an e…
Don Juan
Read by Peter Gallagher
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventua…
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Read by Kevin Steinbach
Teika No Fujiwara
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…
Love and Friendship
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Emily Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…
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