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Raising the Devil

In The Ingoldsby Legends, 2nd Series

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Harris Barham


The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…

The Mermaid

In Short Poetry Collection 253

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


This is a collection of 30 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during June 2024.

Robert Burns

In Canada and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Frederick Young


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…

The Victor of Antietam

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Read by Alan Mapstone


Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…

Part 3: The Pope's Pardon

In Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

Fanny v. 25-45

In The Poetical Works

Read by Alan Mapstone


Fitz-Greene Halleck


Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in the old Connecticut coastal town of Guildford. At age 21 he moved to New York where he worked for nearly 4 d…

Reveille

In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses

Read by Alan Mapstone


Marie E. J. Pitt


Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…

The Grand Rush over the Sierras

In A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines

Read by Alan Mapstone


Dan Dequille


This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…

Rahere; The Survival (Horace, Ode 22 Bk. v.)

In Debits and Credits

Read by Alan Mapstone


Rudyard Kipling


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…

The Cumberland

In Short Poetry Collection 252

Read by Alan Mapstone


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This is a collection of 39 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during May 2024.

Napoleon. VI. To his Soldiers at Fontainebleau (1814)

In The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. VII: Continental Europe

Read by Alan Mapstone


William Jennings Bryan


This book contains a number of famous speeches and addresses from continental Europe between 300 CE to 1900 CE, organized around the followi…

AFTER THE SEA-SHIP

In Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass

Read by Alan Mapstone


Walt Whitman


Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…

The Baker

In A Rough Shaking

Read by Alan Schulte


George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los - Read by AAM

In The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los

Read by Alan Mapstone


William Blake


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Sky Is An Immortal Tent Built By The Sons Of Los by William Blake.This was the Weekly Poe…

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