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Scenes of the Mind

In The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Read by J. McDougall


Aldous Huxley


Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…

The First Jasmines - Read by JM

In The First Jasmines

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Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…

Alarm Clocks - Read by JM

In Alarm Clocks

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Joyce Kilmer


Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (191…

The Lake - Read by JM

In The Lake

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Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movemen…

I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Read by JM

In I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

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Thomas Moore


Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and …

Dirge for the Year - Read by JM

In Dirge for the Year

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets …

Lily Of The West - Read by JM

In Lily Of The West

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Anonymous


"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by …

Spring Song of the Swallow - Read by JM

In Spring Song of the Swallow

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Marietta Holley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wi…

Our Present State one of Danger and Infelicity

In Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson


This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …

The Shame of Going Back - Read by JM

In The Shame of Going Back

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Henry Lawson


Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-kno…

Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido) - Read by JM

In Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

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James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…

Back Streets

In Leda

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Aldous Huxley


Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…

Beauty Making - Read by JM

In Beauty Making

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved no…

A Night-Rain in Summer - Read by JM

In A Night-Rain in Summer

Read by J. McDougall


Leigh Hunt


James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. - Summary by Wikipedia

May Song - Read by JM

In May Song

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres…

On the Bay

In The Watchman and Other Poems

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

Song of the Broad-Axe, 4th stanza - Read by JM

In Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

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Walt Whitman


This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. …

The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece - Read by JM

In The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

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Sam Walter Foss


Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American ("Bring me men to m…

Apples Growing - Read by JM

In Apples Growing

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Will Carleton


William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the S…