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A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography

Read by Skip Corris


Clifford Whittingham Beers


At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienc…

The Crocuses - Read by TD

In The Crocuses

Read by Skip Corris


Frances E. W. Harper


Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of socia…

I Keep Six Honest Serving-men - Read by TD

In I Keep Six Honest Serving-men

Read by Skip Corris


Rudyard Kipling


This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) - Summ…

Over Every Hill - Read by TD

In Over Every Hill

Read by Skip Corris


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; …

Etiquette - Read by TD

In Etiquette

Read by Skip Corris


W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by TD

In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

Read by Skip Corris


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …

Work, by Edgar Boutwell (unk)

In Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922

Read by Skip Corris


Edgar Boutwell


117 poems from the January - December 1922 issues of New Orleans-based literary magazine, The Double Dealer, edited by Julius Weis Friend. S…

A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon - Read by TD

In A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon

Read by Skip Corris


James Elroy Flecker


Of all recent poets of his kind, Flecker is the most successful. The classical tradition of poetry has been mocked and mutilated by many of …

April - Read by TD

In April

Read by Skip Corris


Virna Sheard


This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913) - Summary by David …