Audiobooks online: genre "Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)", page 31

Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from...

LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of The Jabberwocky of Authors by Harry Persons Taber. This parody of Carroll's Jabberwocky consists almost entirely of authors' names. See how many you can spot! This was the weekly poetry proje...

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of The First Snow Fall by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 16th, 2007. Read by Caitlin Teresa, Carolyn Frances, Clarica, Esther, Jc Guan, Katie Gibboney, Lee Ann Howlet...

Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion ....

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.He was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blak...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Langu...

A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late Elizabethan era. This must hav...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Thanksgiving Dream by Joseph Crosby Lincoln. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 17, 2019. ------ A humorous LibriVox look at Thanksgiving. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied with "spinning yarns...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26, 2020.----- A father is trying to write a poem to his son, but the troublesome antics of the l...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Psalm of Patience by Joseph Furphy.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 29, 2020. ------ Not exactly the Seven Ages of Man, but rather amusing, particularly that final stanza. - Summary by SonOfTheExiles...

LibriVox volunteers bring you __ recordings of Uselessness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 29, 2020. ------ Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Witnesses by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2020. ------ Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical ...