Poetry Audiobooks Podcasts

Robert Frost preferred to describe the New England countryside using everyday language. He used both as tools to explore world views and life philosophies. A Boy’s Will was his first poetry anthology. (Summary by Bill Boerst)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called “the Bard of the Yukon”. This poem taken from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, published in […]

A Boy’s Will is Robert Frost’s first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became the major American poet of the twentieth century. A Boy’s Will is characteristic of Frost’s ability […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 8, 2012. William Robert Spencer, English poet and wit, was the younger son of Lord Charles Spencer and his wife Mary Beauclerk. Spencer’s wit made him a popular […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore’s ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

This, the last of 5 volumes containing Poe’s works, contains a collection of both prose and poetry. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast List for Section 42: Narrator / Stage Directions: Ellen Preckel Alessandra: Amanda Friday Castiglione: Phil Schempf DiBroglio: Algy Pug Lalage: Pam Castille Jacinta: Availle Monk, Benito: Larry Wilson Baldazzar: TriciaG Politian: Alan Rose Voice: […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier). He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted […]

The poet Katherine Philips was called “The Matchless Orinda” in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and political. She was a staunch Royalist (a supporter of Charles I and his son during the English Civil Wars) and wrote poetic defenses of the monarchy. She was also part of a literary […]

A collection of Tennyson’s poetry : 1 The Brook – 00:16 2 Song from “Maud” – 1:20 3 A Farewell – 2:34 4 Song from “Maud” – 3:26 5 Break, Break, Break – 4:53 6 From “Locksley Hall”- 5:43 7 Song from “Maud” – 6:43 8 Song from “The Princess” – 7:43 9 Lillian – […]

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping — rapping at my chamber door. “Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door — Only this […]

Librivox volunteers from around the world bring you Christmas stories, carols and poems in English, German, Hungarian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.A merry Christmas to you all!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Summer Magic by Leslie Pinckney Hill. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 22nd, 2007.

8 great spoofs of ‘types’ of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away its genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; “Q.” A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: […]

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the “My Bookhouse” series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920’s as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contained the best in children’s literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. […]

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France. Each exhibits the vigorous exactness, and the mixture of realism and romanticism, for which Flaubert […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013 While Emily Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually […]

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the “My Bookhouse” series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920’s as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contained the best in children’s literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progressed in difficulty […]

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.

LibriVox readers bring you 13 versions of The Poet Who Sleeps by Walter Savage Landor. This was the weekly poetry project for December 1, 2013.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of He’d Nothing but His Violin by Mary Kyle Dallas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 10, 2013. According to an article in the New York Times, Mary Kyle Dallas was born in Philadelphia, PA and married Jacob A. Dallis when she was twenty. She wrote for […]

A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends alike. Her reason – she wants to live the life of and know people like that. (This book’s got one of the cutest romantic endings I’ve ever read). […]

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 – Mending Wall (00:01:20) – The Death of the Hired Man (00:03:45) – The Mountain (00:12:20) – A Hundred Collars (00:18:14) Part 2 – Home Burial (00:00:18) – The Black Cottage (00:06:16) […]

Poetry Podcast

A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. (Summary from Wikipedia)

From Slate.com, a weekly poem, read by the author.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.

Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd, 2010.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Will Nobody Marry Me? by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 3, 2011. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song “Woodman, Spare that Tree!” His songs in particular were […]

An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in the river island of Athelney fills Alfred with joy and hope. […]

In Memoriam is Tennyson’s elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poem over 17 years as a chronicle of his mourning process. The poem became a favorite of Queen Victoria when she was grieving for her husband, and was one of […]

Poems That Nobody Wants To Read is my first collection of poems in an ebook. The ebook is avaialble on Amazon kindle globally. https://linktr.ee/poemsthatnobodywantstoread Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pramod-hingmang/support

LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 15th, 2007.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday by S.A.R., from The California Birthday Book (1909). This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 31st, 2010.

This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe’s works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe’s only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and experiences shipwreck, mutiny, and other adventures in typical Poe fashion. (Introduction by TriciaG)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2013.Despite Dickinson’s prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly eighteen hundred poems, […]

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems either written from the perspective of children or written about them. Many […]

This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring’s flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth’s classic poem reminds us that their blessings last.

Is there a genre called FUN? Yes, and this is it! Insanely humorous geography that will have you rolling on the floor laughing with your sides hurting. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition and redemption in the “Old South.” (Summary by AJai Hilton)

In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of Omar’s rubai in any language. In the Introduction, Nathan Haskell Dole writes: Mr Thompson has put into English verse this whole body of […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Train Dogs by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6th, 2011. Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk: Tekahionwake –pronounced: dageh-eeon-wageh, literally: ‘double-life’)(10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer […]

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. Lucrece draws on the story described in both Ovid’s Fasti and Livy’s history of Rome. In 509 BC, Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquin, the king of Rome, raped Lucretia (Lucrece), wife of Collatinus, one of the king’s aristocratic retainers. […]

In terms of style, I like to keep it authentic and gritty. Draw inspiration from the daily struggles on the block and human condition in general. My rhymes are like snapshots of real life, to help folks feel less alone. At the same time, trying to educate and empower through messages of hope woven in […]

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 2011. Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls’ Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. (summary from Wikipedia) After Music […]

Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex social understandings. (Summary by Becky Miller, Canal Winchester, Ohio)

This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oison succumbs to the […]

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for closing her “window” into his room. Thus begins their friendship. Spirited away by the […]

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter will warm the hearts both of those who remember her fondly from their childhoods and […]

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns – over 300 poems have been recorded by actors from all generations. Visit bbc.co.uk/robertburns for more from Robert Burns.

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of ‘Lydia is gone this many a year’ by Lizette Woodworth Reese. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 8th, 2010.

George MacDonald, a Scottish pastor, wrote these short poems, one for each day of the year, to help him with the severer misfortune he was experiencing. The poems are filled with hope and promises of Christ, yet, he also writes about his doubts. These poems are wonderful to listen to for people of any religion. […]

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West’s increasing disillusion with war and his move toward pacifist and atheist beliefs. The final part consists of his powerful […]