Multi-version Audiobooks

Volunteers brought Christina Rossetti's 14-disc "Consider the Lilies of the Field." Rossetti began writing and dating her poems in 1842, most of which were imitations of her favorite poets. In 1847, she began experimenting with poetic forms such as sonnets, hymns, and ballads, while...

This week, in honor of Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six Columbus recordings by Joaquin Miller....

Blewett was a regular contributor to the Toronto newspaper The Globe, and in 1898 became editor of the housewife's edition. In 1919, supported by the Queen's Order of the Empire, she published Stories from the Heart booklet to benefit War Organizations. During this time, she spoke regularly on...

Volunteers bring you nine different Christmas bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow....

Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Christmas bells. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and teacher known for the poems "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evange Lynn" is...

Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Aristophanes' Chorus of Women. Aristophanes was a playwright of comedy in ancient Athens. This poem is from Thesmophoriazusae; denoting women who celebrate the festival of Thesmophoria, sometimes called poets and women) (abstract from Wikipedia)...

Volunteers bring 14 photos from Lewis Carroll's Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow. ------ The poem appears as a prelude to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. - Summary by David Lawrence...

Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This is the biweekly poetry project on 16 December 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American novelist and poet who wrote "Casey at the Ballpark," "baseball's most famous poem," according to Baseball...

Volunteers bring 12 recordings of the Hanukkah Blessings by Jessie E. Sumpter. Jesse Sumpter was a Jewish educator, poet, and Zionist pioneer. Born in New York City, she emigrated to Palestine in 1919. In her twenties, she joined the Unitarian church and began writing poetry. Her poems and short...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 21, 2019. ------ Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His...