Poetry

How the World Works

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4.7
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

by C. J. Dennis Read by Algy Pug 4.9
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine edi…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

The Bab Ballads

by W. S. Gilbert Read by Graham Redman 5
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

Songs of a Sourdough

by Robert W. Service Read by Phil Benson 4.7
Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon…

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran 4.8
Language: EnglishThe Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.…

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti

by Michelangelo Buonarroti Read by Mary J 4.6
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

Christmas on Old-Time Radio

4.3
Experience the magic of Christmas through the voices of Old-Time Radio. This collection features Norman Corwin's legendary Christmas verse, …

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

Balder Dead

by Matthew Arnold Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.5
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…

The Charge of the Light Brigade

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, …

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

by Hafiz and Hafez Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.8
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

The World's Best Poetry

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…

Poems of Nature

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Larry Wilson 5
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

Poems and Prose for the Departed

by Various Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
Poems and Prose for the Departed is a thoughtful anthology that explores the profound themes of death and bereavement through a diverse coll…

American Poems

by Various Read by Bellona Times 4.8
American Poems is a curated anthology that showcases the rich tapestry of American poetry from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries. Thi…

Hero and Leander

by Christopher Marlowe Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

All Is Beautiful

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.4
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…

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