Audiobooks online: genre "Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)", page 10

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Simple Gifts by Anonymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.Several Shaker manuscripts indicate that this is a "Dancing Song" or a "Quick Dance." The references to "turning" in the last two lines ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...

Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests.In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012.Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it tha...

Ever wonder how the moon seems to follow you around through the sky? Sara Teasdale gives her version of this observation in this poem taken from her collection 'Helen of Troy, and Other Poems'. (David Lawrence)...

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reach...

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city."This poem taken from the The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.; Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948) - S...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Momentary Grief by George Crabbe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2022, in honour of Crabbe's 190th birthday on February 3. ----- George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He is best ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of To Flowers From Italy In Winter by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25, 2021. ------ This Weekly Poem features some of the Poet's thoughts on imported flowers. ( a curious subject) - Summary ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Sleep Is Supposed To Be by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 31, 2020. ------ A description of sleep according to Emily Dickinson. - Summary by David Lawrence...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Plea For Our Northern Winters by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7, 2021. ------Mrs. Leprohon was a Canadian poetess, who also wrote fiction which won her most popular s...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of When My Ship Comes In, by Robert Jones Burdette. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 27th, 2021. ------ Whether you interpret this as sincere, overly simplistic, or cynical is up to you! - Summary by TriciaG...