Poetry
Hope
LibriVox readers bring you 16 versions of Hope, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry selection for the week of November 18, 2013.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of William Wordsworth's most celebrated poems, capturing the fleeting beauty of nature through the lens …
Chamber Music
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, first published in May of 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love …
Selected Poems of John Clare
John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature po…
The Palimpsest of Human Rights
The Palimpsest of Human Rights is an experimental spoken word production which combines verse interpretations of the prose writings of Marti…
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, …
The General Principle of Relativity
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classica…
Baby's Own Aesop
"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted pa…
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
LibriVox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake. This is a weekly poetry project. (…
Nonsense Verses
This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies…
The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United …
Jazz Fantasia
As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…
The Haunted Palace
"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…
The Iliad of Homer
"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…
Short Poetry Collection
This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2011.
Golden mean to 5000 digits
Explore the fascinating world of the golden ratio, a mathematical constant that has captivated artists, architects, and mathematicians for c…
The Chaos
The Chaos is a witty and insightful poem that highlights the complexities and inconsistencies of English spelling and pronunciation. Written…
The Sleeper
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his ta…
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…