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The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
In The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too…
Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
The Informer by Joseph Conrad
In Short Story Collection Vol. 088
Once more, we bring you a stellar collection of short stories, selected and read by Librivox readers. Joining regular favorites, such as Kat…
The Cruise of the "Idlewild"
In Free, and other stories
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
Poor Anne
In A Gallery of Children (Version 2)
These are 12 imaginative stories written by A.A. Milne about beautiful 12 illustrations originally published in the Colliers magazine. (I s…
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by PJW
In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
To Himself
In The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin
The Mysterious Book, by W. MacPherson Wiltbank
In The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 07 April 1899
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Unsubdued BY S.E. Kiser
In It Can Be Done.
It can be done. This is a volume of inspirational poems. Its purpose is to bring men courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire them wit…
The Unknowable
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
15 - Baylor's Mail
In The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…
OFF THE ISLE AUX COUDRES
In The Magic House, and Other Poems
A beautiful collection of 47 poems the author wrote being inspired by the seasons, by love, by memories. - Summary by Laur
Reading a Letter
In New Poems
This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…
The Miniature - Read by NB
In The Miniature
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a p…
To You Who Read My Book
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
An Only Offer
In Winter Evening Tales
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
An Ordnance Map
In If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
On the Duchess of Grafton
In Poems (1686)
These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 yea…
"Ex Libris"
In Sonnets and Songs
Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, R…
A Visit to Benicia
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…