Audiobooks online: genre "Poetry", page 59

John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14th, 2010.Trivia: After hearing the song "John Brown's Body", Clarke suggested that Mrs. ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 different recordings of Drinking Alone by Moonlight by Li Bai in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 20th, 2007....

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012.Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Epigram by Alexander Pope. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 8th, 2010....

This is the third part of the collected poems of James Russell Lowell, comprising his Memorial Verses and his celebrated poem L'Envoi. - Summary by Carolin...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th, 2011.William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherho...

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was a notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories. This was the weekly poem for July 24-30, 2011....

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of The First Snow Fall by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 16th, 2007. Read by Caitlin Teresa, Carolyn Frances, Clarica, Esther, Jc Guan, Katie Gibboney, Lee Ann Howlet...

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. - Summary by Carolin...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. (Summary by Wikiped...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Letter to Her Husband (Absent upon Public Employment) by Anne Bradstreet. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 24th, 2010....