LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 050: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)
18 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 14th, 2007.
16 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Sister Rosa: A Ballad by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
7 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 051: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Ghosts' Moonshine by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 21st, 2007.
14 episodes
Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means "star-lover") for his beloved Stella (whose name means "star"). It is likely that Sidney based his poems on his own unrequited passion for a married woman. The sequence inspired other sonnet writers of the period, such as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Lady Mary Wroth. (Summary written by Elizabeth Klett)
5 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Note: "Nephelidia" means "Cloudlets"; the poem is Swinburne's parody of his own style.
10 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 28th, 2007.
11 episodes
Myricae, è la raccolta di poesie più amata dal Pascoli. [...] Nel 1903, la raccolta definitiva comprendeva 156 liriche del poeta. I componimenti in esso raccolti sono dedicati al ciclo delle stagioni, al lavoro dei campi e alla vita contadina. Il titolo indica la modestia e la semplicità della poetica. Le myricae, le umili tamerici, diventano un simbolo delle tematiche del Pascoli ed evocano riflessioni profonde. La descrizione realistica cela un significato più ampio così che, dal mondo contadino si arriva poi ad un significato universale. La rappresentazione della vita nei campi e della condizione contadina è solo all'apparenza il messaggio che il poeta vuole trasmettere con le sue opere. [...] Il significato delle Myricae, va quindi oltre l'apparenza. (Summary from Wikipedia)
31 episodes
This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014.
13 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of The Secret by Cosmo Monkhouse. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 4th, 2007.
17 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Ode to Autumn by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 11th, 2007.
15 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service.
7 episodes
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 054: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Hour of Twilight by George William Russell, published in "Collected Poems" in 1913. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 18th, 2007.
14 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh.
6 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 25th, 2007.
6 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 055: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares by Chidiock Tichborne. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 2nd, 2007.
13 episodes
A selection of Shakespeare's poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. (Summary by Clarica)
22 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of Snow Song by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 9th, 2007.
11 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
Hallel (Hebrew: הלל "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for praise and thanksgiving that is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays. Summary from Wikipedia
6 episodes
Illuminations include some autobiographical allusions to his voyant (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but Illuminations is neither a confession nor an apology. Its several dozen short prose works and two free-verse poems transcend prose grammar by allowing their words to drift away from their dictionary definitions. Ever-elusive, relentless, overflowing with sinuous cadences, Illuminations transcends Une Saison en Enfer as it in turn had transcended Rimbaud's early verses. Some scholars even propose that some of the Illuminations may have been written after Une Saison, which supposedly marked his farewell to literature. (From Wikipedia)
47 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 057: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
In LibriVox's Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).
19 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 30th, 2007.
12 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 3 different recordings of Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti.
3 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 058: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 059: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Glee for Winter by Alfred Domett, published in "A Victorian Anthology" in 1895. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 23rd, 2007.
9 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 13th, 2008.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008.
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
8 episodes
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 060: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
Several of La Fontaine's fables, translated into English by W. T. Larned. (Summary by bge1234)
19 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Music, when soft voices die by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 27th, 2008.
17 episodes
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were forgotten. And there were others we never had the opportunity to meet.
This selection hopes to go beyond the experience of meeting old friends and on top opening the door to new ones — poems that might relate more significantly to our current lives. Originally titled "Personal Poems for Later Years," this collection gestures towards poems that ask us to slow down some we can consider them more deeply than before — no matter our age.
Each time we read a good poem it brings with it a different meaning. Meeting a poem with an open ear, be it old friend or new, we can find its deeper significance. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)
20 episodes
LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 061: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Promises Like Pie-Crust by Christina Rossetti. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 3rd, 2008.
15 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
6 episodes
A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon Mire)
39 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of Venus Transiens by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 10th, 2008.
18 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Solitude by Alexander Pope. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 17th, 2008.
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Fetch by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
7 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers by Jonathan Swift. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 24th, 2008.
9 episodes
LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
20 episodes
