Audiobooks online: genre "Poetry", page 20

As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were...

Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's s...

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for Christmas in 1844. Not impressed by...

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 047: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011....

This is a collection of 64 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2020. October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this collection focuses mostly on female poets. Know your normal, check yourself regularly, see your d...

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009....

LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 030: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

This is a collection of poems read by Librivox volunteers during the month of April 2009....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011.Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary ma...

This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star.Also included are poems about why you shouldn't kill kittens, birds and flies, a poem...