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Read by Kerry Adams
William Shakespeare
In A Hundred Great Poems
This is a compilation by Richard Cross of 100 poems by various poets. - Summary by Mozartjr
Coromandel Fishers
Read by Vann Lantz
Sarojini Naidu
In The Golden Threshold
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…
Veni Creator Spiritus, Paraphrased
Read by Peter Tucker
John Dryden
In The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Sonnet V
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John Donne
In Holy Sonnets (Version 3)
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are a meditation on faith, loss, doubt and divine mercy. This recording uses the sequence of 19 sonnets as edited …
Article Signed "Vindex"- Nov 30, 1772
Read by Sonia
Samuel Adams
In The Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 2
Most Americans and many of other nationalities have heard of Samuel Adams. He was regarded in the Pre-Revolutionary Period of American Histo…
Venetia
Read by Newgatenovelist
Adah Isaacs Menken
In Infelicia
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous a…
76. Benedictus
Read by Michele Fry
Gilbert Parker
In A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
The Trifler
Read by Kerry Adams
Elizabeth Semple
In A Cup of Sweets, that Can Never Cloy: Or, Delightful Tales for Good Children
Twenty-two moral stories for children. A collection of short stories about good little boys & girls and the rewards that come from good …
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…
Adam Asleep
Read by Mawusi
Maria Letitia Stockett
In The Hoofs of Pegasus
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her …
Sonnet 8
Read by Kerry Adams
Sir Philip Sidney
In Astrophil and Stella (Version 2)
Astrophil and Stella is a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier. It details…
Cain
Read by Lee Smalley
Aleksandr Kuprin
In A Slav Soul and Other Stories
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…
Chapter 23: The Questioning Fervour
Read by Kerry Adams
George MacDonald
In England's Antiphon
"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…
Just Introduced
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Genevieve Taggard
In For Eager Lovers
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1922 and deals with topics such as pe…
A Matter of Doctrine
Read by Kerry Adams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Heart of Happy Hollow (Version 2)
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
Marion
Read by Victor Dorff
Paul Heyse
In Four Phases of Love
Paul Heyse was selected as the 1910 Nobel Laureate in Literature in recognition of " ... his long productive career as a lyric poet, dr…
L’Envoi
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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…
Choosing
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Augusta Webster
In Mother and Daughter
Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…
Preface
Read by Kerry Adams
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…