Poetry
Shakespeare's Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.…
The Divine Companion
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James Allen
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In t…
The Aeneid
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Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms
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King James Version
The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 po…
Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
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Heinrich Heine
Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen ist ein satirisches Versepos des deutschen Dichters Heinrich Heine (1797–1856). Unzufrieden mit den poli…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Simplemente Darío
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Rubén Darío
Esta es una colleccion de poemas de Ruben Darío. (Summary by Arturo)
A Dream within a Dream
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Edgar Allan Poe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project for t…
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Ep…
Aladdin und die Wunderlampe
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Ludwig Fulda
Aladin ist ein junger Mann, der von einem Zauberer beauftragt wird, eine Öllampe in einer magischen Höhle zu finden. Nachdem der Z…
Os Lusíadas
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Luís Vaz de Camões
Camões (1524-1580) é o maior poeta da nossa língua, e Os Lusíadas a sua obra maior. Publicada em 1572, é …
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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William Blake
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…
Tact
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…
Illuminations
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Arthur Rimbaud
Illuminations include some autobiographical allusions to his voyant (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but Illuminations is neither a …
Faust II
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…
The Raven and Other Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded,…
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner'…
O Captain! My Captain!
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Walt Whitman
In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written…
Jabberwocky
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Lewis Carroll
LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…