Poetry

The Poems of Sappho

by Sappho Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025) 4.8
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the r…

All Is Beautiful

by Jabez L. Van Cleef Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef 4.4
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

Mind Amongst the Spindles

by Charles Knight Read by MaryAnn 4.8
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The Prelude

by William Wordsworth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth pu…

Easy Lessons in Einstein

by Edwin E. Slosson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is m…

The Rape of Lucrece

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in …

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran 4.8
Language: EnglishThe Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

How the World Works

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4.6
A multi-media presentation utilizing appropriate mood-setting music to enhance many short illustrations of how the world works with Jesus at…

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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…

Radioisotopes in Medicine

by Earl W. Phelan Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.8
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…

A Chesterton Calendar

by G. K. Chesterton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…

Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare Read by Chris Hughes 4.5
Shakespeare's Sonnets is a profound exploration of love, beauty, and the human experience, encapsulated in 154 masterful poems. Written by t…

Spirits in Bondage

by C. S. Lewis Read by Robert Garrison 4.4
Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 unde…

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Cynthia Moyer 4.5
The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action …

Christmas Short Works Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

by William Blake Read by Nick Duncan 4.4
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution.…

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