Philosophy
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Edmund Spenser
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …
Opportunity
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Walter Malone
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Wa…
Von der Gnade - An den Kaiser Nero (De Clementia)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Kein lebendes Wesen ist störrischer, keines will mit mehr Kunst behandelt seyn, als der Mensch; keines muß mehr geschont werden. …
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
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Charles Babbage
Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …
Pantheisticon
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John Toland
Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society. Divided into Three Parts. Which Contain, I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pa…
Quatrain from the Rubaiyat
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Omar Khayyám
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George K…
Travels by the Fireside
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry projec…
Deer Godchild
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Marguerite Bernard, Marguerite Bernardandedith Serrell and Marguerite Bernard And Edith Serrell
A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolv…
Ten Days in the Light of Acca
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Julia M. Grundy
This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, R…
Discovering Buddhism - Wisdom of Emptiness
Ven. Losang Monlam
The wisdom of emptiness is the ultimate teaching in Buddhism; its main tenet is that our suffering is caused by our inability to perceive th…
De Consolatione Philosophiae
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…
Growing Old
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Matthew Arnold
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011.Mat…
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
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Omar Khayyám
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for M…