Poetry
The Speaking Voice
From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…
Diary of an Old Soul
George MacDonald, a Scottish pastor, wrote these short poems, one for each day of the year, to help him with the severer misfortune he was e…
Poems
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets is a profound exploration of love, beauty, and the human experience, encapsulated in 154 masterful poems. Written by t…
Long Poems Collection
Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
The Princess
The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an hero…
Eugene Onéguine
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
The Waste Land
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
The Island
Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the muti…
Sappho
Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…
The Song Celestial
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translatio…
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…
Hymns to the Night
"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…
From The Temple
George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection
A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.
Poems on Various Subjects
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age s…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…
Milton
Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from he…
Manfred
Manfred is a dramatic poem in three acts by Lord Byron, and possibly a self confessional work. A noble, Manfred, is haunted by the memory of…