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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…

Selection from Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Southey


Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

The King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

Read by Alan Chant


Frederick William Bourne


Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Poems of Pilgrimage

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Hardy


A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

Poems (Version 2)

Read by Alan Mapstone


Wilfred Owen


The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…

Childe Roland and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Browning


The title poem was inspired by various images which Browning saw while living in Italy, an old tower in the Carrara Mountains, a painting in…

Admirals All

Read by Alan Mapstone


Sir Henry Newbolt


A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…

Star Surgeon

Read by Alan E. Nourse


Alan E. Nourse


Dal Timgar always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous ad…

The Communion of the Saint

Read by Alan David Justice


Alan David Justice


Clio Griffin, an out-of-work academic with an attitude and a tendency toward sarcasm, travels to England to interview for a last-chance job-…

Cathay

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Ezra Pound


The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks wr…

The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Wallace Stevens


A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…

Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


William Carlos Williams


Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was …

Long Poems Collection 002

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Various


LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 002: a collection of 7 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Poetry Miscellany 01

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Various


As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…

Poetry Miscellany 02

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


Various


As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…

Deciding upon a New Move

In The Ice Queen

Read by Leah Emery


Ernest Ingersoll


When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the Arctic ice, there are sure to be adventures. Aleck becomes “Captain,” …

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