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Multilingual Poetry Collection 009

by Various

In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

Other volumes of the Librivox Multilingual Poetry Collection can be found here.

• LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection 009 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (33 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

Total running time: 1:09:14

mp3 and ogg files

• Dutch - Avondliedeke III by Alice Nahon (1896-1933) - 00:01:04
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Ernst Pattynama
• Dutch - Winterstilte by Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) - 00:00:55
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Ernst Pattynama
• French - El Desdichado by Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) - 00:01:16
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• French - Le hareng saur by Charles Cros (1842-1888) - 00:02:16
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Ezwa
• French - Le mérite des femmes by Gabriel Legouvé (1764-1812) - 00:33:07
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 15.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 31.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 17MB]
  Read by: Ezwa
• French - Sensation by Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) - 00:00:50
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• German - Kennst du das Land by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) - 00:01:39
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• Greek - Thanatoi by Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928) - 00:01:40
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Anna Froh
• Italian - Il passero solitario by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) - 00:03:02
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• Italian - L’infinito by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) - 00:01:18
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
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  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• Latin - quaeris, quot mihi basiationes by Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BC) - 00:00:59
  Source: E-text
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  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Varra Unreal
• Malay - Kalung Bunga by Seloka Pak Pandir - 00:01:17
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Christianese
• Middle English - Truth by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) - 00:02:11
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Joseph Finkberg
• Polish - Lyz by Teofil Lenartowicz (1822-1893) - 00:01:06
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
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  Read by: Joseph Finkberg
• Portuguese - Esta Velha by Fernando Pessoa (aka Alvaro Campos) (1888-1935) - 00:02:30
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: Lucas M.
• Portuguese - Ismalia by Alphonsus de Guimaraens (1870-1921) - 00:01:01
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Leni Ribeiro
• Portuguese - O Corvo by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), translated by Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - 00:07:53
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.8MB]
  Read by: Lucas M.
• Portuguese - Vandalismo by Augusto dos Anjos (1884-1914) - 00:00:57
  Source: E-text
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  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Leni Ribeiro
• Yiddish - Der Shnayder by Dovid Edelshtat - 00:02:26
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Joseph Finkberg
• Yiddish - A libe ist a krenk by Anonymous - 00:01:47
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Joseph Finkberg

Cataloged on August 24, 2008