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Stanzas Written in His Library

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Robert Southey


Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909.This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding our…

The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

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Joel Chandler Harris


26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…

Love-Songs of Childhood

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Eugene Field


This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

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John Mccrae


John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.The poem which gives this collection…

The Romance Of The Commonplace

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Frank Gelett Burgess


Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)

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Lewis Carroll


An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …

Echoes of the Forest

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William Edgar Brown


Twenty-six stories of first nations' origin rendered in English in verse. The author's dedication claims the stories "help us to unders…

How Sleep the Brave



Originally broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service in 1948 on Memorial Day, this program features film star Lew Ayers. Saluting World Wa…

Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry Collection

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Various


A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…

Song (Stickney version)

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Trumbull Stickney


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of "Song" by Trumbull Stickney.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 31, 2022. -…

A Little Garland of Celtic Verse

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Various


Poems of Ireland by various poets, including WB Yeats. Songful, soulful poems of the Ireland so many left behind (Summary by Czandra)

Short Stories in Prose and Verse

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Henry Lawson


Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …

The White Canoe and Other Verse

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Alan Sullivan


This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…

A Little Garland of Christmas Verse

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Various


A collection of Christmas carols and poems. (Summary by Gillian Hendrie)

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913

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William Stanley Braithwaite


William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

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William Stanley Braithwaite


William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…

Crossways

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William Butler Yeats


The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a No…

The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman

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Fay Inchfawn


Published by the Religious Tract Society in London, The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman is a collection of domestic, spiritual, and fanciful po…

Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

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Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

Oak and Ivy

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

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