Audiobooks online: genre "Poetry", page 44

In 1867 Jean Baptiste Nicolas (1814-1875), scholar and career diplomat, published the first major French translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This version is in prose and the collection contains 464 verses.In Nicolas’ view, Omar was no Epicurean reveler but ra...

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 2011.Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, B...

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day.(Summary by Annie Coleman)...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of A Thrush Before Dawn by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 8th, 2008....

This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014. ...

Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010....

Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in...

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Australian Sunrise by James Lister Cuthbertson. This was the weekly poetry project for August 16th, 2009....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009....