Poetry

Hero and Leander

Read by Martin Geeson


Christopher Marlowe


“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

János vitéz

Read by Diana Majlinger


Sándor Petőfi


A János vitéz mára már klasszikussá vált Magyarország-szerte. Kukorica Jancsi tört&eac…

A Selection of Divine Poems

Read by Nathan


John Donne


John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love aga…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)

Read by NoelBadrian


Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…

Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation)

Read by Expatriate


Aeschylus


Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of …

Folk Tales from Many Lands

Read by Kalynda


Lilian Gask


A collection of poetic folk tales from all over the world.

The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

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Eva March Tappan


This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The Raven (Multilingual)

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Edgar Allan Poe


The Raven, by Edgar Alan Poe, is one of the most famous poems ever written. First published in 1845, it was soon reprinted, illustrated, emu…

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

Read by James K. White


Maria W. Stewart


Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

中國傳統書籍三本(三百千) / Three Classic Chinese Texts

Read by Jc Guan


Various


中國傳統書籍三本: 百家姓, 千字文, 三字經. This is a collection of three classic Chinese texts: the Hundred Surnames (百家姓), the Thousand Character Classic (千…

Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16

Read by Peter Gallagher


George Gordon, Lord Byron


These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…

The Chaos

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Gerald Nolst Trenité


"The Chaos" is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenit&ea…

The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

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Elias Lönnrot


This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

Compilation de Pensées, Textes et Poésies

Read by Christiane Jehanne


François-René de Chateaubriand


Comme l'indique le titre, ce sont différents pensées de l'auteur, sur la vie, l'être humain, aussi la vie politique, ave…

Bible (WEB) 19: Psalms - Selections

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World English Bible


To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible. This was the w…

The Lusiads

Read by Leni


Luís Vaz de Camões


The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…

The Ramayan, Book 6

Read by om123


Valmiki


The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …

Compilation de poèmes - 003

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Various


Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)

The Vagabond

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Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 20…

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