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Lincoln as a Typical American - Phillips Brooks
Read by Gloria Loughry
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
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…
The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder
Read by Leanne Yau
Richard Watson Gilder
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
Morgan Le Fay
Read by Alan Mapstone
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Lines
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
In Wessex Poems
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn
Vision
Read by Elizabeth Buchanan
Aldous Huxley
In The Burning Wheel
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …
Lycidas
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…
The Mirror
Read by Amy Gramour
Edward Powys Mathers
In Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems
"There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and A…
Portion 6: Section 28: Fifth Annual Message, 'To the Senate and House of Representatives,' Part I
Read by MaryAnn
James D. Richardson and Ulysses S. Grant
In A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant
The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messag…
Book First
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
In The Prelude, Version 2
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
The Linnet
Read by K. Merrill Emmons
Walter De La Mare
In Motley, and Other Poems
From English poet Walter De la Mare comes an early collection of poems reflecting on loss, mortality, and universal questions. - Summary by …
Prelude by Edmond McKenna
Read by Dan McNellan
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
To Milton, by William Wordsworth
Read by Kerry Adams
Various
In Famous Poems: A New Anthology Of Lyrics And Ballads
A collection of famous poems by various authors who wrote during the period 1550 to 1892, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth…
Sonnet V
Read by Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
In In Excelsis
In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy …