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Declaration of Rights

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 2

On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York. Though New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia did not send delegates, the Assemblies of those missing colonies nonetheless agreed to support the works of the Congress. The meetings were held in Federal Hall in New York, and the delegates assembled on October 2. They spent less than two weeks in discussion and at their final meeting on October 19, 1765 adopted the Declaration of Rights and approved its use in petitions to the King and two letters to Parliament. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances raised thirteen points of colonial protest. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 083

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Poetry
Chapter: 32 | Listen:

This is a collection of poems submitted by LibriVox volunteers for the months of September and October 2009. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 080

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Poetry
Chapter: 31 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009. [chương_files]

Tremendous Trifles

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 7

“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don’t let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will only try. ” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [chương_files]

The Riot Act

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Non-fiction
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 5

The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. This was a time of widespread social disturbance, as the preamble describes; the Act sought to put an end to this. A group of twelve or more people, “being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled”, would be read a proclamation; they must disperse within an hour, on pain of death. The same fate would befall anyone preventing the reading of the proclamation, or damaging buildings while on a riot. If the law enforcement officers happened to injure or kill a rioter, they were immune from prosecution. The reading of the proclamation, the wording of which is detailed in the Act, was the necessary first step before action could be taken against the rioters. This gave us the phrase “to read the riot act”, to give a stern warning or rebuke. The Act was repealed in Britain in 1973, but had long since fallen into disuse there. A version is still in force in Canada. [chương_files]

Baby’s Songbook

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General, Poetry
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 2

This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane’s “The Baby’s Opera” and “The Baby’s Bouquet” containing classic nursery rhymes from England, France, and Germany. The songs are sung by LibriVox’s very own Carol Stripling. [chương_files]

Poems of West and East

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 5

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent, which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf. Poems of West and East is a short collection of her early work, which was published in 1917. (Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 208

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Poetry
Chapter: 67 | Listen: 1

This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020. [chương_files]

Coleção de Autoras em Português

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

A literatura lusófona, do século XVII ao século XX, vem aqui representada por algumas de suas maiores escritoras. [chương_files]

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

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Poetry
Chapter: 6 | Listen: 4

Aemilia Lanyer’s 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of the ancient world, and closes with the first “country house” poem written by a woman in English. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) [chương_files]