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Poems
Alice Duer was a successful American author who wrote poetry, novels and screenplays and campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage. Her si…
Collected Poems
Early poems written by Walter de la Mare. de la Mare is best remembered for his works for children. This collection includes:Poems: 1906Th…
India's Love Lyrics
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name…
Al Que Quiere!
A book of William Carlos Williams's early poetry. Included in this recording are 18 poems published by Williams in Volume 13 of 'Poetry' lit…
War's Embers
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…
Candle-Lightin' Time
Poetry about African American Southern life - Summary by Denise Ray
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
Pharsalia
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
A Shropshire Lad
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at …
Poems of Marianne Moore
In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore…
My Little Book of Prayer
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS
Great Chicago Fire
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…
Hawaiian Hilltop
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1923 and deals with topics such as pe…
Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
A Psalm Of Life
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Feb…
Poems of Emile Verhaeren
A selection of poems from Belgian symbolist poet Émile Verhaeren, translated from French by Alma Strettell. Most of the poems selecte…
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
On a Grey Thread
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her…
Cottage Poems
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and tea…
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…