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Recompense
Read by Catherine Grissom
John McCrae and John Mccrae
In In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection…
The Testament of John Davidson (Part 2)
Read by kilpatrick83
John Davidson
In The Testaments of John Davidson
The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard …
Who Shall Say - ?
Read by John
Richard Middleton
In The Ghost Ship & Other Stories
Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…
To Marion
Read by KevinS
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Maine's Great Coast Resort
Read by Nemo
Rev. Leonard Wilson Arnold Luckey
In The Morning Dawn
"The Morning Dawn, Bar Harbor, Maine: a Very Comprehensive Poem Illustrating and Describing the Scenic Beauty of the United States; Laf…
54. The Treasure
Read by Larry Wilson
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…
To John Hamilton Reynolds
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Keats
In The Sonnets of John Keats
The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonne…
Gargaphie
Read by Campbell Schelp
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 4
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
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…
An Epitaph upon the Marchioness of Winchester
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
In Milton's Minor Poems
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
To a Grackle by Franklin Pierce Adams
Read by mleigh
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
Biographical Note on John Calvin
Read by Larry Wilson
Arthur Cushman McGiffert
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08
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…
To Wilhelm Gericke
Read by TimoleonWash
Elizabeth Porter Gould
In Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary b…
Reckoning
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Drinkwater
In Selected Poems of John Drinkwater
This remarkable selection of poems from the pen of master poet John Drinkwater is outstanding in its portrayal of the poet's deep appreciati…
St. John and the Faun, by George Edward Woodberry
Read by Rachel May
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
An Unusual Chum
Read by Sebastian LaVine
James W. Foley
In Boys and Girls
A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each…
Mizpah by Julia A. Baker
Read by docdlmartin
Montrose L. Barnet
In Poems We All Love
This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but w…
Mutability
Read by Graham Redman
Rupert Brooke
In The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), …
Replying to the Grand Duke Alexis - Matthew Hale Carpenter
Read by mleigh
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 3
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…