Poetry
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
Selected Poems of Robert Frost invites listeners into the rich tapestry of nature and human experience through the eyes of one of America’s …
The Iliad of Homer
"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…
God Wears Many Skins
The Sami, who call themselves "the real people," are nomadic indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia and adjacent areas of Russi…
The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …
Death Be Not Proud
This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remembe…
Be Kind When You Can
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011.E…
In the Seven Woods
In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the de…
Canzoniere
Le Rime (in English, The Rhymes) are the collection of lyric poems written by Dante Alighieri throughout his life. While the rest of Dante's…
Remembrance
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Remembrance by Emily Brontë. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 14th, 2009…
The Ramayan
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
How the World Works
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…
The Fisher's Boy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the…
The Apology
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…
A Winter Day
A Winter Day by Lucy Maud Montgomery captures the essence of winter through a reflective lens, using the season as a metaphor for the stages…
Give All To Love
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 17th,…
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…
Kubla Khan
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…
The Tiger
LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger, by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…