Audiobooks online: genre "Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)", page 21

"What is life?" we ask. "Just one darned thing after another," the cynic replies. Yes, a multiplicity of forces and interests, and each of them, even the disagreeable, may be of real help to us. It's good for a dog, says a shrewd philosopher, to be pestered with fleas; it keeps h...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013.Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the mos...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Ruined Reversolet by C. J. Dennis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2012.Clarence James Dennis was an Australian poet and journalist. In his varied career, he worked as a barman, shearer, solicitor's clerk...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Life by Charlotte Brontë. This was the weekly poetry project for March 8th, 2009....

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, a...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in ...

A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander Pope's "Whatever is, is right."

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Nocturne: In Anjou by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 10, 2019. ------Richard Hovey collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs f...

Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-centu...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Jumblies by Edward Lear. This was the fortnightly poetry project for March 8th, 2009....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Blood Road by Katharine Lee Bates.This was the New Year's Weekly Poetry project for December 30. 2018. ------Katharine Lee Bates was an American writer, poet, professor, and social activist. Although she was a renowned ...

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. - Summary by Wikipedia...