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This Weekly Poem is taken from The Queens' Garden - Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. - Summary by David Lawrence...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Premonition by Bliss Carman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 27, 2019. ------William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international ...

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords.He is well known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of One Thousand Nights and One Night. His English version of Mardrus appeared in 1...

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."

But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and sweet, and most sympathetic helpfulness he met in the city of his a...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Cheese Curd for Bait by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 23, 2012.James McIntyre, born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1841. He finally settled in Ingersoll (a town in central Ontario on the ban...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Transposed Seasons by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 3, 2019. ------Mr. Cawein's landscape is not the sea, nor the desert, nor the mountain, but the lovely inland levels of his Kentucky...

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, ne...

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 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. ------James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights activist. He was ma...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Grass by Emily Dickinson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2019. ------The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something pro...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Where the Bee Sucks by William Shakespeare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 2012.Where the Bee Sucks is a song performed by Ariel, an airy spirit, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The Tempest has proved more popu...