Poetry

How the World Works

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4.6
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…

The Watchman and Other Poems

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems.…

Eros and Psyche

by Robert Bridges Read by Nathan 4.7
Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass.The poem is…

Balder Dead

by Matthew Arnold Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.5
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…

The Charge of the Light Brigade

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, …

Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.8
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizab…

Venus and Adonis

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his pa…

Hallel

by Jewish Publication Society Of America Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Hallel (Hebrew: הלל‎ "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for pr…

The Poems of Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. …

Poems and Prose for the Departed

by Various Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
Poems and Prose for the Departed is a thoughtful anthology that explores the profound themes of death and bereavement through a diverse coll…

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

by Frank Gelett Burgess Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…

Don Juan

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by Peter Gallagher 4.9
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…

American Poems

by Various Read by Bellona Times 4.8
American Poems is a curated anthology that showcases the rich tapestry of American poetry from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries. Thi…

All Is Beautiful

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.4
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…

God Wears Many Skins

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.3
The Sami, who call themselves "the real people," are nomadic indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia and adjacent areas of Russi…

The World's Best Poetry

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

by Hafiz and Hafez Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.8
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Explore the haunting and imaginative world of Edgar Allan Poe in this comprehensive collection, the final volume of the Raven Edition. This …

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