Audiobooks online: genre "Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)", page 9

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow wrote poetry like John Singer Sargent painted portraits, with "econ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 2010....

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...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27th, 2009. ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, 2010....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Christmas at Church by Hattie Howard.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 2, 2018. ------This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Poems by Hattie Howard, Pub 1902 (David Lawrence )...

Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at th...

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, Whittier was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. - Summary by Wikipedia...

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 9 recordings of Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 9th, 2008....

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a two year old letter from Eliza, carefully “treasured up” by him i...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Photograph by John Charles McNeill.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 11, 2019. ------McNeill was considered the unofficial poet laureate of his home state North Carolina until this position was established ...