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Lullaby

In Poems & Songs

Read by B. Heath


Richard Middleton


This is a volume of poetry by English poet Richard Middleton. While hardly known to readers anymore today, Middleton's poems, stories, and e…

Chapter 19 - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise

In The Trumpet-Major

Read by Becca B


Thomas Hardy


Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

Ch.40. The Public Pedagogue

In The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

Read by Lucretia B.


William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

The Prayer of the Virgin Mary by H. C. Harwood

In Oxford Poetry 1915

Read by Lucretia B.


Various


The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…

Seventeenth Letter

In The Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century

Read by Lucretia B.


Jean-Joseph Gaume


A book that examines the sign of the Cross made by Christians since the primitive church up until the 19th century. It looks at stories of m…

JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL

In The Book of American Negro Poetry

Read by Kahlil B


James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.


The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…

10 - Part VIa: The ____

In Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

Read by Lucretia B.


Laurence Oliphant


Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

The Ninth Chapter

In Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch

Read by Lucretia B.


Wilhelm Meinhold


Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author ass…

Part 1 Chapter 18

In Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

Read by Lucretia B.


Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

Fredericksburg by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In Poems of American Patriotism

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Brander Matthews


This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver

Chapter IX

In The Journal of John Woolman

Read by Lucretia B.


John Woolman


John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his y…

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