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Song - Read by LLW

In Song (Heine version)

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Heinrich Heine


Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early…

To The Moon - Read by LLW

In To The Moon

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Giacomo Leopardi


Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor…

My Last Duchess - Read by LLW

In My Last Duchess

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Robert Browning


NOTES: "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a desc…

In A Subway Station - Read by LLW

In In A Subway Station

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. - Summary by Wikipedia

Domestic Bliss - Read by LLW

In Domestic Bliss

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence

Where's The Use - Read by LLW

In Where's The Use

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Robert F. Murray


Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most not…

A Solar Eclipse - Read by LLW

In A Solar Eclipse

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. - Summary by David Lawrence

Sonnet 18 - Read by LLW

In Sonnet 18

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Shakespeare


A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016.Two of Shakespeare'…

Sonnet 130 - Read by LLW

In Sonnet 130

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Shakespeare


A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare…

Song of the Sewing-Machine - Read by LLW

In Song of the Sewing-Machine

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


George Pope Morris


George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's …

Comfort in the Night - Read by LLW

In Comfort in the Night

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Jean Ingelow


Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

A Summer Morning - Read by LLW

In A Summer Morning

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


R. F. Murray and Robert F. Murray


He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his…

I Am The World - Read by LLW

In I Am The World

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dora Sigerson Shorter


Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She …

Driftwood - Read by LLW

In Driftwood

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. - Summary by David Lawrence

To a Blank Sheet of Paper - Read by LLW

In To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by…

The Usher's Charge - Read by LLW

In The Usher's Charge

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

The Fog - Read by LLW

In The Fog

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Lola Ridge


Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publ…

The American Girl - Read by LLW

In The American Girl

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw


Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 185…

The Quarrel - Read by LLW

In The Quarrel

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Madison Cawein


This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) - Summary by David…

A Bachelor to a Married Flirt - Read by LLW

In A Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&qu…

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