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Short Poetry Collection 163

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen:

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot “And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” – Genesis 4:21 Re-imagined from a few bare lines in Genesis, George Eliot’s epic poem describes man’s loss of innocense, the birth of animal husbandry, of industry, commerce, and art. In a surprise ending, she tells of human transcendence. Each of us has a divine gift to offer the world. (Summary by Josh Mitteldorf) [chương_files]

25/07/2024

Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 005

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Poetry, Short Stories
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 3

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions: 01 Japanese – Shisyuu by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1925] – Key words: prose, fiction, poetries 02 Japanese – Utsukushii Inu by Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951) [1947] – Key words: prose, fiction, dog 03 Japanese – Konoteni kagiruyo by Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) [1937] – Key words: prose, fiction, dream 04 Japanese – Ookina Komorigasa by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) [1926] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, umbrella 05 Polish – O kaznodziei by Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) [1883] – Key words: poetry, fraszka, ksiądz, pieniądze 06 Japanese – Niwa by Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) [1946] – Key words: prose, essay, garden 07 Japanese – Kakehino Hanashi by Kajii Motojiro (1901-1932) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, water 08 Japanese – Iseini taisuru kankakuwo senrenseyo by Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) [1935] – Key words: prose, women 09 Polish – Król chory i lisy by Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) translated by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1893] – Key words: fable, bajka, lisy, lew, król 10 Japanese – Kinno Kubikazari by Ono Hiroshi (1894-1933) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, golden necklace 11 Japanese – Kusuriyubino magari by Tanaka Koutarou (1880-1941) [1934] – Key words: prose, doctor, ring finger 12 Japanese – Sorano bi by Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951) [1926] – Key words: prose, sky 13 German – Der Sturm auf dem Tyrrhener Meer by Vergil (70 BC – 19 […]

25/07/2024

Address to Free Colored Americans

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Politics, Science
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 4

The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. One outcome of this important event was a statement of the organization’s role in the abolitionist movement as expressed in AN ADDRESS TO FREE COLORED AMERICANS, which begins: “The sympathy we feel for our oppressed fellow-citizens who are enslaved in these United States, has called us together, to devise by mutual conference the best means for bringing our guilty country to a sense of her transgressions; and to implore the God of the oppressed to guide and bless our labors on behalf of our “countrymen in chains.” This significant event was a precursor to the growing women’s rights movement of the time and to greater female involvement in other political reform movements. [chương_files]

25/07/2024

Essays and Literary Studies

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Humor, Literature
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 2

A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock. [chương_files]

25/07/2024

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 031

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Essay/Short nonfiction
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty. [chương_files]

Complaint; or Night Thoughts

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Poetry
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 2

A book-length poem, often associated with the Graveyard School of poetry, musing upon life and death. – Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek [chương_files]

Poetry of Thomas Moore

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Poetry
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 3

The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work “Irish Melodies” published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists of 130 of his poems set to music, much of it based on old Irish airs. “The Last Rose of Summer” and “The Minstrel Boy” are two of the most well known. Many of these “Melodies” are included in this collection. He is perhaps most infamous for having burned, at the request of the Byron family, the manuscript of Byron’s memoirs which Bryon had left to him for publication after his death. During his lifetime, his reputation as a poet placed him alongside Byron and Scott and Shelly. His narrative poem Lalla Rookh for example was possibly the most translated poem of the time and earned him £3000, what was till then the highest price paid by an English publisher for a poem. This collection contains a version of the poem but without the linking or “framing” prose sections. A lovely edition of the full poem can be found here https://archive.org/details/lallrookhanorien00mooruoft with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Moore was an Irish Nationalist and turned down the post of “Irish Poet Laureate” as he felt it would require him to tone down his outspoken Irish national politics. Despite this, he counted the Regent – later King George IV as one of his patrons. Moore died on February 25, 1852 and though much of his work […]

25/07/2024

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

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Essay/Short nonfiction
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 1

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco. “Earthquakes” was co-authored by Louis Pakiser. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 194

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Poetry
Chapter: 51 | Listen:

This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2019. [chương_files]

25/07/2024

Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 004

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Poetry, Short Stories
Chapter: 20 | Listen:

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions: 01 Japanese – Natto Gassen by Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) [1919] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, fermented soybeans 02 Japanese – Shikino e by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) [1911] – Key words: prose, non-fiction, painting 03 Japanese – Carmen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1926] – Key words: prose, fiction, Tokyo, theater 04 Japanese – Sanbikino Kogumasan by Murayama Kazuko (1903-1946) [1931] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, bears 05 Japanese – Nakunatta Ningyo by Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) [1918] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, doll 06 Polish – Latarnik by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) [1881] – Key words: prose, opowiadanie, tęsknota, emigracja 07 French – Suicides by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) [1883] – Key words: prose, fiction, suicide, suicides, letter, lettre 08 Polish – Świtezianka by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1899] – Key words: ballad, legend, love, betrayal, water nymph, temptation 09 Japanese – Abuno Orei by Yumeno Kyusaku (1889-1936) [1925] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, horsefly 10 Japanese – Amedama by Niimi Nankichi (1913-1943) [1933] – Key words: prose, candy, children, mother, samurai 11 Japanese – Shoshuno ichinichi by Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) [1912] – Key words: prose, non-fiction, early autumn 12 Polish – Tchórz na wyborach by Jean de la Fontaine(1621-1695) translated by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1893] – Key words: fable, bajka, zwierzęta, wybory 13 Japanese – Yuubinkyoku by Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) […]