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Ch 15 A Long Episcopate

In Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

Read by David Wales


Charles Todd Quintard


Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

Three Things - Read by DL

In Three Things

Read by David Lawrence


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Her final words in her autobiography The Worlds and I: "From this mighty storehouse (of God, and the hierarchies of Spiritual Beings) w…

The Gobbler Who Was Lonesome. A Historical Fact

In Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 5, May 1902

Read by David Lawrence


Various


"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes…

The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by DL

In The Slave In The Dismal Swamp

Read by David Lawrence


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and r…

Pied Beauty - Read by DL

In Pied Beauty

Read by David Lawrence


Gerard Manley Hopkins


In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet "that is they are constructed in pro…

The Haunted Palace - Read by DL

In The Haunted Palace

Read by David Lawrence


Edgar Allan Poe


"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…

More about the Wild Winds

In The Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners

Read by David Bear


Agnes Giberne


This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air - the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has…

Preface; Introduction; Epistle Dedicatory

In The Characters Of Theophrastus

Read by David Wales


Theophrastus


Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many to…

To the River - Read by DL

In To the River

Read by David Lawrence


Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of To the River by Edgar Allan Poe.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2019. -…

The Adventure Of The Fair Patronne

In The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

Read by David Wales


William John Locke


This 1912 collection of short stories is of lighthearted adventures of an irresponsible -- and irrepressible -- Frenchman in England and Par…

William The Reformer

In William Again

Read by David Wales


Richmal Crompton


Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…

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