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The Spirit of the Border

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Zane Grey


This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Days Too Short - Read by LLW

In Days Too Short

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


LibriVox Weekly Poetry and William Henry Davies


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days Too Short by William H. Davies. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.

On A Shadow In A Glass - Read by LLW

In On A Shadow In A Glass

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who …

The Journey of Life - Read by LLW

In The Journey of Life

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Cullen Bryant


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December…

I Know Not Why

In Short Poetry Collection 095

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Morris Rosenfeld (1869-1948) and Morris Rosenfeld


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of February and March 2011.

A Parting Guest - Read by LLW

In A Parting Guest

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…

Silver Filigree - Read by LLW

In Silver Filigree

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Elinor Wylie


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Silver Filigree by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 27, 2011.

The Wish - Read by LLW

In The Wish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Abraham Cowley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Ab…