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The Laborer by William D. Gallagher

In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)

Read by Tomas Peter

Various

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…

Don Juan, Canto 1

Read by Peter Gallagher

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventua…

Don Juan, Canto 5

Read by Peter Gallagher

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smu…

Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16

Read by Peter Gallagher

George Gordon, Lord Byron

These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…