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Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
Props
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
Dusk
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
The Return of Jeanne D'arc
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Grace H. Conkling
In Wilderness Songs
This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the…
The Letters
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
LUI ET ELLE
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
D. H. Lawrence
In Tortoises
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the la…
Chapter XIX
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
Free Will
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
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…
Phaon
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Sappho
In The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the r…
A Birthday
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Louis Untermeyer
In Challenge
Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to…
In the Home Stretch
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Robert Frost
In Coffee Break Collection 014 - New Beginnings
This is the fourteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in…
The Queen's Page
Read by Larry Wilson
Evaleen Stein
In Child Songs of Cheer
This is a little volume of children's poetry by Indiana poet Evaleen Stein. The poems in this volume concern really anything that could be f…
To Monica Thought Dying
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Francis Thompson
In Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poe…
26 - Appendix B
Read by Ann Boulais
Jefferson Davis
In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
A Cooking Egg
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
T. S. Eliot
In Poems
This collection of 24 contains some of T. S. Eliot's earlier work. This collection contains poems in English as well as some completely in …
Introduction
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Rainer Maria Rilke
In Poems
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…
Anne and Grace Compare Notes
Read by Christine Blachford
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
In Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School
Being a good and loyal friend is not easy, and Grace learns it the hard way. But, as in all children's books, good triumphs over evil. (Summ…
An Early Moonset
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Thomas Fleming Day
In Songs of Sea and Sail
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…
HER FIANCÉ
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Frank Athelstane Swettenham, Anonymousandfrank Athelstane Swettenham, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymous And Frank Athelstane Swettenham
In Unaddressed Letters
“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with …
Insanity
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Maxwell Bodenheim
In Introducing Irony (Version 2)
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the …