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Renascence and Other Poems

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

The following is a recording of the first volume of poetry published by Edna St. Vincent Millay. When the author had graduated from high sch…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a r…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Robert Bridges

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…

Vivir sin vivir en mi

In Spanish Poetry Collection 001

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Santa Teresa de Avila, St. Teresa of Avila and Saint Teresa of Avila

LibriVox’s Spanish Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 10 Spanish language public-domain poems.

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

In Long Poems Collection 004

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Essay 06 - Friendship

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

1910-04-22 Mark Twain (obituary)

In Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1

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The New York Times

Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

Anne Rutledge

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…