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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Once There Was Time by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 21, 2021. ------ John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance t...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocr...

Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems published during World War I. This poem is from Paper Pellets (1907), an anthology of humorous verse.(Summary from Wikipedia)...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Maid's Lament by Walter Savage Landor.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 25, 2109. ------Walter Savage Landor was an English writer, poet, and activist. The critical acclaim he received from contemporary ...

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) - Summary by David Lawrence...

At this time of year, we dedicate the Fortnightly Poetry project to the fallen in war. This poem, written at a time when the average life expectancy of an officer at the front was a mere six weeks, vividly demonstrates a young officer's expectation and acceptance of his own...

Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". This Weekly poem was published in his book "Shapes and Shadows". (1898) (Summary from Wikipedia) ...

James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917, being cho...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Tom-Cat by Don Marquis. This was the Fortnighty Poetry project for June 23, 2019. ------A reflection on the tom-cat. - Summary by KevinS...

Librivox volunteers bring you nine readings of With Two Spoons For Two Spoons, by Eugene Field. This was the weekly poem for the week of December 7, 2014. Summary by Ann Boulais...

He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his life. Many of us have trod in his path, and, by some kindness of fate, have found from it a sunnier exit into longer days and more fortuna...

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal Work...