Single Author Collections

The Borough

by George Crabbe Read by David Wales
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …

Encounters

by Elizabeth Bowen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…

The Wind Among the Reeds

by William Butler Yeats Read by Newgatenovelist 5
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…

India's Love Lyrics

by Laurence Hope Read by Helen Williford-Lower 2
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name…

Great Chicago Fire

by Charles Cole Hine Read by Maria Kasper 3.8
In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Charles Cole Hine provides a detailed account of the disaster that reshaped a city and i…

Leda

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…

Poems by a Slave

by George Moses Horton Read by Elsie Selwyn 5
This book of poems, published originally in 1829 and reprinted in 1837, was the second book written by George M. Horton. It addresses themes…

The Sonnets of John Keats

by John Keats Read by Bruce Kachuk 4
The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonne…

The Early Poems of Hart Crane

by Hart Crane Read by Winston Tharp 5
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…

The Horses of the Hills

by Marie E. J. Pitt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…

War's Embers

by Ivor Gurney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…

Al Que Quiere!

by William Carlos Williams Read by KevinS 5
A book of William Carlos Williams's early poetry. Included in this recording are 18 poems published by Williams in Volume 13 of 'Poetry' lit…

Men, Women and Ghosts

by Amy Lowell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Men, Women and Ghosts is a captivating collection of long poems and short stories by the acclaimed poet Amy Lowell. In this anthology, Lowel…

The City of Dreadful Night

by James Thomson Read by MoonLylith 4.7
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

The Hotel D'Angleterre

by Mary Elizabeth Hawker Read by David Wales 3.8
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…

The Vengence of the Gods

by William Pickens Read by James K. White 4.9
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …

Jonah

by Aldous Huxley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of…

December Tales

by William Harrison Ainsworth Read by Ben Tucker 2.8
December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…

Cottage Poems

by Patrick Brontë Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and tea…

Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

by George Gordon, Lord Byron Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …

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