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Selected poems
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Mark Akenside
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Reading for All
Read by Larry Wilson
Charles Knight
In The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Oregon Junco
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
Instruction
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
To Byron
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
John Keats
In John Keats: Selected Poems
John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…
Jadbury Wilson
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
In Hunting for Hidden Gold
The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American detective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. The…
Selected excerpts, part 2
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Augustine Birrell
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
A Parable
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Guards Came Through and other Poems
This is a volume of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1919. Many of them concern wartime experiences. - Summary by Carolin
The Miniature - Read by LLW
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
George Pope Morris
In The Miniature
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a p…
Selected excerpts
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Phillips Brooks
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Chapter 7
Read by Adrian Wilson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In The Great Gatsby (version 2)
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…
Chapter 8
Read by Jim Locke
Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson
In Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…
Conclusion
Read by Larry Wilson
Walter W. Bryant
In Galileo
Galileo Galilei is considered the father of observational astronomy, modern science, the scientific method and modern-era classical physics.…
To President Wilson
Read by drwifey
Alice Duer Miller
In Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…
The Message
Read by Winston Tharp
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…
The Old Bear
Read by Larry Wilson
Unknown
In Something New for my Little Friends
This is a collection of stories in verse for children. Published in 1866 by an author only known by the initials F.F., these poems teach chi…
Under A Kurrajong
Read by Larry Wilson
Shaw Neilson
In Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
The Bar
Read by Peter Yearsley
Thomas Wilson Reid
In The Book of the Cheese
"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Wallace Irwin
In Short Poetry Collection 158
This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.
Romance - Read by LLW
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Andrew Lang
In Romance
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern …