25/07/2024
Short Poetry Collection 167
This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017. [chương_files]
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25/07/2024
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers and include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature, travel, psychology and love. [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Ben King’s Verse
This is a volume of Benjamin King’s collected verse, published shortly after his sudden death in 1894. The American humorist was very famous during his lifetime, and is still widely referenced and quoted until today. This volume was published in Chicago after his death, reportedly outselling any other volume of poetry in Michigan for 25 years after being published. It is also prefaced by two short biographies by John McGovern and Opie Read. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Sonnets of a Budding Bard
This is a volume of 25 sonnets by American poet Nixon Waterman. The sonnets are written from the perspective of a school boy, and are very humorous, supported by some excellent illustrations by John A. Williams. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Easter Gleams
This is a collection of Easter poems by Lucy Larcom. The poems cover the entire circle of religious holidays, customs, and bible verses around Easter. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 043
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier. Gram von Anton Chekhov übersetzt von Alexander Eliasberg Staatsgeheimnisse von Matthias McDonnell Bodkin übersetzt von Margarete Jacobi [Ringparabel] von Giovanni Boccaccio übersetzt von Karl Witte [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Carry On!
This is a little volume of poetry by Canadian poet Virna Sheard. Published in 1917, its subject is the then ongoing first World War. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Song of the Wave, and Other Poems
This is an 1898 volume of poetry by American poet George Cabot Lodge. Its title-poem refers to the Sea, and the Sea does seem to be the main character of this book, making its appearance in many of the poems throughout the first part of the volume. The second part of the book is a collection of 40 sonnets on more varied topics. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Rebel Verses
Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful place among our foremost singers. What William Barnes was to Dorset, what T. E. Brown was to the Manx people—this is Mr. Gilbert to the folk of his native county of Lincoln. He has interpreted their lives, their sorrows, their aspirations, with a surprising fidelity. Mr. Gilbert never loses his grip upon realities. One feels that he knows the men of whom he writes in their most intimate moods; knows, too, their defects, which he does not shrink from recording. There is little of the dreamy idealism of the South in the peasant people of Lincolnshire. The outwardly respectable chapel-goer who asks himself, in a moment of introspection But why not have a good time here? Why should the Devil have all the beer? is true to type. But he has, too, his softer moods. Fidelity in friendship, courage, resource and perseverance—these are typical of the men of the Fens. – Summary by The New Witness, 1918 [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Spook Ballads
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. “Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as would have been dear to the heart of Ingoldsby. There is a rugged force in ‘The Girl of Castlebar’ that will always make it tell in recitation; and even greater success in this direction has attended ‘The Fairy Queen,’ a story unveiling the seamy side, with quaint humour and stern realism. It is specially worthy of note that Mr. Parkes’s skill in versification has received the warmest acknowledgment from those best qualified to appreciate the bright local coloring as well as the blending of fancy and fun.”— Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]