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Read by Edith van der Have-Raats
Thomas Aquinas and Saint Thomas Aquinas
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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…
From Mardrus's ‘Mille Nuits et Une Nuit’
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
The Letters
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
Raison D'Etre
Read by Eleanor Howard
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
MY NEIGHBOUR RADILOV
Read by tovarisch
Ivan Turgenev
In A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collec…
18 - Chapter X. Edith Swan-Neck, part 2
Read by Cate Barratt
Maurice Leblanc
In The Confessions of Arsene Lupin
A collection of nine stories - or confessions - of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Introduction
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Rainer Maria Rilke
In Poems
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
Symbols
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser
Read by Leanne Yau
Edmund Spenser
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Vertue
Read by KevinS
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
LUI ET ELLE
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
D. H. Lawrence
In Tortoises
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the la…
Riley, M.P. by Tighe Hopkins
Read by inkbear
Henry Norman
In The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean
This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative …
Ego Dominus Tuus
Read by Peter Tucker
William Butler Yeats
In The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
Rahere; The Survival (Horace, Ode 22 Bk. v.)
Read by Alan Mapstone
Rudyard Kipling
In Debits and Credits
This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have stron…
Book IX - Cato, part 1
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Lucan
In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
Anodyne
Read by Newgatenovelist
Marion Strobel
In Selected Poems
Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…