Poetry

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The New Physics and Its Evolution

by Lucien Poincaré Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thou…

Vintage Verse Rhapsody

by Various Read by Bob Gonzalez 4.9
A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selec…

A Budget of Christmas Tales

by Various and Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a 1895 collection of christmas-themed short stories and poems by various authors, Charles Dickens himself being the most prominent f…

Poems on Various Subjects

by Phillis Wheatley Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.9
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age s…

Short Poetry Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 22 public-domain poems.

Paradise Regain'd

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.7
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Mes…

Astronomy

by David Todd Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…

Prufrock and Other Observations

by T. S. Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song…

Masters of Space

by Walter Kellogg Towers Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, a…

Jerusalem Delivered

by Torquato Tasso Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stori…

Poems

by Emily Dickinson Read by Laura Atkinson 4.8
In this collection, Emily Dickinson invites listeners into her introspective world, where the profound themes of life, love, and death are e…

Don Juan

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Peter Gallagher 4.5
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…

Poems Every Child Should Know

by Mary E. Burt Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.7
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lo…

The Poetry of Sa'di

by Saadi Read by Algy Pug 4.5
Shaikh Sa’di, also known as Saadi Shirazi, the nightingale of Shiraz, as Jami poetically calls this gifted poet, was born at Shiraz, the …

Maude

by Christina Rossetti Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…

The Birth of Propaganda

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.8
"The Birth of Propaganda" is poetic adaptation of the essay "Propaganda in a Democratic Society," by Aldous Huxley, whic…

An Alphabet of History

by Wilbur D. Nesbit Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of thisbook appeared in the Chicago Su…

Travels in Lancashire

by Various Read by Phil Benson 4.7
A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…

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