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The Rude Rat and the Unostentatious Oyster
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Guy Wetmore Carryl
In Fables for the Frivolous
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…
The Scribe
Read by Anthony Will
Walter De La Mare
In Motley, and Other Poems
From English poet Walter De la Mare comes an early collection of poems reflecting on loss, mortality, and universal questions. - Summary by …
Book IX - Cato, part 2
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Lucan
In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
Palinodia
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
He lived simply, loved his walks and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheri…
Book Fourteenth
Read by Peter Tucker
William Wordsworth
In The Prelude, Version 2
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Perkin Warbeck
Read by Connie Bettison
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
November, by Mahlon Leonard Fisher
Read by Andrew Gaunce
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Cassandra
Read by Alan Mapstone
Lady Jane Francesca Wilde
In Poems
Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish natio…
Helen
Read by Ken Masters
Julia Caroline Dorr
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin
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…
To You Who Read My Book
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Cassandra by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read by Ronald Gardella
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Fragment
Read by Newgatenovelist
Jessie R. Fauset
In Selected Poems
Jessie Fauset was a poet, novelist, educator and one of the editors of The Crisis. These poems were published between 1912 and 1929. - Summa…
Marie
Read by Newgatenovelist
Thomas Parker Sanborn
In Selected Poems
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…
A Question
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Alan Sullivan
In The White Canoe and Other Verse
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the vo…