Poetry

The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Peter Yearsley 4.8
I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular,…

The Hope of the Gospel

by George MacDonald Read by Jordan 4.6
Perhaps most well-known for his fairy tales and fantasy stories such as The Golden Key and Phantastes, or for his poetry, George MacDonald w…

Goblin Market and Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti Read by Elizabeth Klett 5
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …

The Ballad of the White Horse

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Joshua B. Christensen 4.9
An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihi…

Paradise Lost

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…

Idylls of the King

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which re…

The Song of Roland

by Anonymoustranslated Byc. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Anonymoustranslated By C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and William James McGlothlin Read by Joy Chan 4.6
The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an Eng…

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

Evangeline

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.9
Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Tales of a Wayside Inn

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul…

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran Read by Ruth Golding 4.9
The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…

Three Stories & Ten Poems

by Ernest Hemingway Read by KevinS 4.4
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…

Ezekiel

by King James Version Read by J L Raimundo 4.8
The book of Ezekiel follows the southern kingdom of Israel, Judah, into captivity by the Babylonians. Ezekiel cries judgement on the Israeli…

In Memoriam A.H.H.

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poe…

An Essay on Man

by Alexander Pope Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

Psalms

by American Standard Version Read by Sam Stinson 4.7
Psalms is a profound collection of poetic verses that form a central part of the Hebrew Bible, revered for their spiritual depth and emotion…

Poetry of St John of the Cross

by Saint John Of The Cross Read by Ed Humpal 4.8
The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world's great poems of Divine Love in all …

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bib…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

by William Blake Read by P. J. Taylor 4.8
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously bl…

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