27/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 193
This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2019. [chương_files]
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27/07/2024
Roadside Harp
This is a collection of poems by Louise Imogen Guiney. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Poems from the Inner Life
Collection of reflective poetry by celebrated medium and clairvoyant, Lizzie Doten. She claims these poems were sent by her ‘inner heaven’, often while she was in a trance. She credits some of the poems to the spirits of Poe, Burns and Sprague, with whose work she was, apparently, unfamiliar.( Lynne Thompson) [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 196
This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2019. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Essays and Dialogues
“We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the idle; it is poison to those who have work to do in the world. It shuts out hope, the very spring of energy; it makes the cheerful steady pursuit of duty a thing utterly beyond human powers. For we can none of us stand alone. Either in human or divine love we must find the mainspring of all life worth living. There must be something outside of ourselves which we regard not with despair, but with hope.” — Handwritten dedication in the book, dated Feb. 19th, 1883 [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Book of Twenty-four Sonnets
This is a collection of 24 sonnets by Laurens Maynard. This rather unknown poet brings many classical themes into this volume, with biblical figures beginning the circle and then in somewhat chronological order arriving in the poet’s present day (1894) life. All readers should find a sonnet to their tastes in this collection. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States history, football, child raising, Tokyo firebombing, and more. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Curiosities of Olden Times
This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher’s stone, written in Baring-Gould’s own style. [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 197
This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2019. With a number of spooky ones for Halloween! [chương_files]
27/07/2024
Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans
“Gifted with poesy as are the Highlanders, and given to the praise of their country and their leaders, it would be expected that many poems would still be extant concerning the MacLeans and their ancestral dominions,” wrote John Patterson MacLean in his “A History of the Clan MacLean,” These selections, collected and arranged by J.P. Maclean comprise part of Note C of MacLean’s treatise (pp. 406-452), although they were written by different authors for different reasons. Dealing with incidents experienced by the MacLeans throughout their long history this highland poetry reveals, in ways the historical narrative cannot, the feeling behind the actions of the MacLeans and the reactions to their activities. – Summary by DrPGould [chương_files]