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Multilingual Poetry Collection 012

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).

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Total running time: 1:54:02

mp3 and ogg files

• Afrikaans – Oktobermaand by C Louis Leipoldt (1880-1947) – 00:03:29
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.19MB]
  Read by: GerryR
• Classic Greek – Tettix by Pseudoanacreon – 00:01:06
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 657MB]
  Read by: hefyd
• French – Ballade des pendus by François Villon (ca.1431-ca.1463) – 00:02:41
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.69MB]
  Read by: Aldor
• French – La femme adultère by Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) – 00:08:18
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.33MB]
  Read by: Ezwa
• French – Le code des amants by Unknown – 00:36:31
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 17.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 35.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 23MB]
  Read by: Ezwa
• German – Frau Twardowska by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855); translated from the Polish by Carl von Blankensee – 00:06:31
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 6.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.00MB]
  Read by: Ernst Pattynama
• Greek – Anixi by Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928)
  – 00:01:15
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 874MB]
  Read by: Stefanos
• Indonesian – Djoeskoe by Wedhyaningsih – 00:01:36
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.02MB]
  Read by: Christianese
• Italian – Il sabato del villaggio by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) – 00:02:39
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.65MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• Italian – La sabbia del tempo by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) – 00:00:53
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 584MB]
  Read by: Silvia
• Italian – La vita solitaria by Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) – 00:05:53
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 5.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.87MB]
  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• Latin – Copa Syrisca by Vergil (70 BCE – 19 BCE) – 00:03:45
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.22MB]
  Read by: hefyd
• Polish – Placzacej by Adam Asnyk (1838-1897) – 00:01:43
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.07MB]
  Read by: Violet B Czaykowska
• Portuguese – A raposa e as uvas by Bocage (1765-1805) – 00:00:56
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 556MB]
  Read by: Ariane Ribeiro
• Romanian – Balada unui greier mic by George Topîrceanu (1886-1937) – 00:02:03
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.23MB]
  Read by: Nicoleta Tipa
• Romanian – Lupul moralist by Grigore Alexandrescu (1810-1885) – 00:03:09
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.96MB]
  Read by: Nicoleta Tipa
• Turkish – Muhtelif Siirler by Yunus Emre (?1240-?1321) – 00:01:27
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 936MB]
  Read by: Kivanc Atmaca
• Ukrainian – Kateryna by Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861) (link to Ukranian Wikipedia entry for author) – 00:20:42
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 9.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 19.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 13MB]
  Read by: Olga
• Ukrainian – Prychynna by Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861) (link to Ukranian Wikipedia entry for author) – 00:07:39
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.52MB]
  Read by: Olga
• Yiddish – May Ko Mashma Lon? by Abraham Reisen (1876-1953) – 00:01:46
  Source: E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.17MB]
  Read by: Joseph Finkberg

Cataloged on April 25, 2009