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Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…

The Benediction

In The Flowers of Evil

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Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker


Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…

Darkness

In The Prisoner of Chillon

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was …

Sonnets

In Poems of Conformity

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Charles Williams


Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …

The Young British Soldier

In Barrack-Room Ballads

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Rudyard Kipling


Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…

When I set out for Lyonnesse - TEC

In When I set out for Lyonnesse

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Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of When I set out for Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22…

The Familie

In The Temple

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George Herbert


George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

04. Castles in Spain

In Kéramos : and other poems

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This is a collection of 51 poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. which include many sonnets, plus 7 translations of poems by Virgil, Ovid, Mi…

The Artists

In Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period

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Friedrich Schiller


Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

The Wagtail Family

In The Children's Book of Birds

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Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

Letters from Vienna - Freud's correspondence with Pastor Oskar Pfister

In Kellogg College

Read by Alistair Ross


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

33 - Upon our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, Discourse XIII

In Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series

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John Wesley


John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

07 - Sternocostal Articulations; Articulation of Manubrium and Body of Sternum

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy)

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Henry Gray


Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

Chapter 16, The Search for the "Flyaway"

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield


The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

10 - Chapter X

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

01 - An Explosion

In Tom Swift and his Airship

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Victor Appleton


In Tom Swift and His Airship, Tom Swift has finished his latest invention- the Red Cloud, a fast and innovative airship. Tom is anxious for …

16 - A Mysterious Fire

In Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

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Victor Appleton


A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…