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A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day

In Short Poetry Collection 127

Read by Patrick Wallace


Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Donne


This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013.

Inversnaid

In Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness

Read by Patrick Wallace


Herbert Müller Hopkins


This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by PJW

In To His Mistress Going to Bed

Read by Patrick Wallace


John Donne


John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets…

London: Argyle Rooms

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

Read by Patrick Wallace


John Henry Ingram


Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

The Magnet and The Churn - Read by PJW

In The Magnet and The Churn

Read by Patrick Wallace


W. S. Gilbert


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Magnet and The Churn by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 26, …

PART II. CHAPTER X. FURTHER INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR

In Strength and How to Obtain It

Read by Wallace Morgan


Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

The Green Eye of the Yellow God

In Short Poetry Collection 245

Read by Patrick Wallace


J. Milton Hayes


This is a collection of 34 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2023.

Moonlit Apples

In Short Poetry Collection 102

Read by Patrick Wallace


John Drinkwater (1882-1937) and John Drinkwater


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2011.

Etiquette - Read by PJW

In Etiquette

Read by Patrick Wallace


W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

Heraclitus

In Short Poetry Collection 113

Read by Patrick Wallace


Callimachus (ca 300 BCE), translated by William Cory (1823-1892) and Callimachus


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2012.

The Reporte of a Straunge and wonderful Spectacle

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 019

Read by Patrick Wallace


Abraham Fleming


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

A Backward Spring - Read by PJW

In A Backward Spring

Read by Patrick Wallace


Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Backward Spring by Thomas Hardy.This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 19, 2023. …

Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love - Read by PJW

In Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

Read by Patrick Wallace


Robert Herrick


His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, w…

Excerpt from Edith Cavell: Her Life Story

In First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I

Read by Patrick Wallace


Herbert Leeds


This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…

The "Ode to Joy"

In The House of Love

Read by Wallace Morgan


Elizabeth Cheney


“‘Little gal,’ he repeated, ‘air ye all alone in the world?’This time the sound resolved itself into an unmistakable sob.”With these words w…

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window - Read by PJW

In To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

Read by Patrick Wallace


Adelaide Crapsey


Her death was tragic. Full of the desire of life she yet was forced to go, leaving her work all unfinished. Her last year was spent in exile…

11 - Chapter XX, Part 11

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)

Read by Patrick Wallace


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 20 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

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