Poetry

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll Read by Craig Franklin 4.8
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is…

Great Astronomers

by Robert Stawell Ball Read by MaryAnn 4.7
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…

The Flying Saucers are Real

by Donald Keyhoe Read by Roger Melin 4.6
The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs b…

The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Peter Yearsley 4.8
I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular,…

The Joyful Wisdom

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by TimSC 4.7
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …

Idylls of the King

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.6
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which re…

Dhammapada

Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Dhammapada gathers 423 short verses traditionally attributed to the Buddha, offering reflections on ethical conduct and the path of Budd…

Goblin Market and Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti Read by Elizabeth Klett 5
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

My Inventions and Other Works

by Nikola Tesla Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these wo…

Evangeline

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) 4.9
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…

Tales of a Wayside Inn

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul…

History of Astronomy

by George Forbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by re…

Paradise Lost

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…

The Song of Roland

by Anonymous Read by Joy Chan 4.6
The Song of Roland is a medieval French epic poem set against the campaign of Charlemagne in Spain. Its central episode is the Battle of Ron…

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

by U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.8
This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…

Three Stories & Ten Poems

by Ernest Hemingway Read by KevinS 4.4
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…

Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson

by Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Science - History of the Universe offers a comprehensive exploration of astronomy, tracing the evolution of human understanding of the c…

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