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Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church o...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Songs Without Words by Robert J. Burdette. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2013.Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale.This was the Christmas Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2018. ------This Christmas Poem is taken from Helen of Troy, and Other Poems by Sara Teasdale. - Summary by David Lawrence...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. ------This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!) taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume V, Poem...

"Windhover" is another name for the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a hor...

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (née Varian), also a writer. She was a major fi...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Outward Bound by Sir Henry John Newbolt. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 2, 2021. ------ Sir Henry John Newbolt, was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Mrs. De St Croix on Her Recovery by Thomas Love Peacock. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6, 2022. ----- Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Whil...

Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse. (Summary from Wi...

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Spring by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Fortnightly Poetry Poetry project for March 25, 2012.Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She i...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Snowshoeing Song by Arthur Weir. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 31, 2011.Snowshoeing Song is taken from A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908).Arthur Weir was born in ...