Single Author Collections

The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge

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Francis Ledwidge


Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World W…

A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…

The Monster and Other Stories

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Stephen Crane


From the celebrated author of the Red Badge of Courage comes this final collection of stories released in Crane's lifetime. These stories of…

Selections from Harris's Cabinet

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William Roscoe


In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

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Carl Sandburg


Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard

Short Stories in Prose and Verse

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Henry Lawson


Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

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James Thomson


While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2

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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare


Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish

A Scrawl

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James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author, born in the town of Greenfield, Indiana. During his lifetime he …

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems

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Edwin Markham


Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…

Selected Poems

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Robert Frost


These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston"…

The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)

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William Butler Yeats


The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…

Supersticiones y Leyendas Mayas

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Manuel Rejón García


Compendio de leyendas cortas de los Mayas, con unos pasajes en maya. La antigua importancia de este pueblo es bien conocida; habían h…

The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War

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Robert Laurence Binyon


This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…

A Father of Women and Other Poems

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Alice Meynell


Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…

The Inn of Dreams

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Olive Custance


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

Bay: A Book of Poems

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D. H. Lawrence


The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident…

Song of Myself

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Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…

Most Blessed For Ever

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Frances Ridley Havergal


LibriVox readers bring you 9 readings of Most Blessed For Ever, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for January 11 to 18, 2…

Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems

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Sadakichi Hartmann


Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakic…

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