Single Author Collections

The Wild Swans at Coole

by William Butler Yeats Read by Peter Tucker 4.2
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…

A Thief in the Night

by E. W. Hornung Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was …

Star Dust

by Jeannette Fraser Henshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is a companion volume to Henshall's book "Rain and Roses." These are short poems of sentiment, romance and spirituality. - S…

Poems for my Children

by Ann Hawkshaw Read by Phil Benson
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…

Selected Early Poems

by William Carlos Williams Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) 4.4
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was …

What Men Live By and Other Tales

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By…

The Burning Wheel

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.5
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …

The Passionate Pilgrim

by William Shakespeare Read by Caliban 4.3
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only i…

The Crescent Moon

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by Anusha Iyer 4.8
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanj…

The Lilt of Life

by Zora Cross Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused o…

Complete Poems

by Anne Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

A Tree with a Bird in it

by Margaret Widdemer Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…

When Day is Done

by Edgar A. Guest Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

Selected Poems

by Effie Lee Newsome Read by Newgatenovelist 5
Effie Lee Newsome was a poet from Philadelphia who was also the editor of ‘The Little Page’, a column for children in The Crisis. These poem…

Songs by the Sea

by Rebecca Ruter Springer Read by Larry Wilson 4
Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

The Tower

by William Butler Yeats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

Rainbows

by Olive Custance Read by Nemo 2.8
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …

Ottawa Folk Festival Robert Service Collection

by Robert W. Service Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
On August 13-15, 2010, A hearty band of Librivox volunteers, led by Bob Ledrew and Sean McGaughey, recorded selections from the Spell of the…

Fine Clothes to the Jew

by Langston Hughes Read by Dar'Keith Lofton 5
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes. The collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press,…

The Poems of James Hebblethwaite

by James Hebblethwaite Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …

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