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Peace by Leslie Phillips Jones
Read by Sarah Brown
Various
In Oxford Poetry 1915
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
A Dialogue
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Caroline King Duer and Alice Duer Miller
In Poems
Alice Duer was a successful American author who wrote poetry, novels and screenplays and campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage. Her si…
Leah's lover 2
Read by Phil Benson
John Ackworth
In Beckside Lights
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his…
To the Reader
Read by MaryAnn
Charlotte Elliott
In Hours of Sorrow
Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…
28 - Traits of Indian Character
Read by Anna Simon
Washington Irving
In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…
Another on the Same
Read by Christina Roberts
John Milton
In The Complete Poems of John Milton
It is by his poetry that Milton is best known; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak. By the general suffrage of the civilized…
Maisie at the Movies: A Monologue
Read by Amanda Friday
Gertrude S. Welton
In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…
Mr. Ford and Other Political Self-Starters
Read by Anthony St. Pierre
Various
In Short Story Collection Vol. 113
Here we present the 113th edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. Once again, readers selected their own texts, and, as always, have…
Anthony and Cleopatra
Read by Newgatenovelist
José-Maria Heredia
In Selected Poems of Cuba
These poems were published from 1917 to 1928 and were translated by Muna Lee, Alice Stone Blackwell, Edna Worthley Underwood, Thomas Walsh, …
The Phoenix
Read by Newgatenovelist
Lewis Spence
In Coffee Break Collection 030 - Mythical Creatures
This is the 30th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
12 - Ifs
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL
Read by DavidG
James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
In The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
Sam Patterson’s Balloon
Read by Adrian Stephens
Palmer Cox
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…
A Circular
Read by Sonia
Thomas Hardy
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Isabel
Read by Eliza Winters
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
The Alarm
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
In Wessex Poems
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn
THE IDEAL
Read by Laurie Banza
Duncan Campbell Scott
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
Endings
Read by Anthony Will
Charles Williams
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
Little Andrew
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Julia A. Moore
In The Sentimental Song Book
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …