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Short Poetry Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

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mp3 and ogg files

• Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt - 00:01:48
  Source: Bartleby e-text #41-524
  [mp3@64kbps - 872.6kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• The Artilleryman by Walt Whitman - 00:03:29
  Source: Bartleby e-text #142-133
  [mp3@64kbps 1.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: Jon Ingram
• As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins - 00:01:40
  Source: Bartleby e-text #122-34
  [mp3@64kbps 803.5kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Dave Foss
• Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson - 00:00:47
  Source: Bartleby e-text #113-4027
  [mp3@64kbps 383.9kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 768.1kB]
  [ogg vorbis - 530.7kB]
  Read by: wedschild
• Casabianca by Felicia Hemans - 00:01:53
  Source: Poets’ Corner - hemans01
  [mp3@64kbps - 909.8kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 953.5kB]
  Read by: John Hicken
• Christmas Bells by H. W. Longfellow - 00:01:41
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #1365
  [mp3@64kbps 810.4kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: pkolter
• Daffodils by William Wordsworth - 00:01:48
  Source: Bartleby e-text #106-253
  [mp3@64kbps 872.2kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 735.1kB]
  Read by: Aldon Hynes
• A Dead Boche by Robert Graves - 00:00:37
  Source: Bartleby e-text #120-19
  [mp3@64kbps 302.9kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 608.6kB]
  [ogg vorbis - 330.4kB]
  Read by: Scott Munro
• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) - 00:02:34
  Source: Bartleby e-text #246-420
  [mp3@64kbps 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Catharine Eastman
• Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen - 00:02:22
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #1034
  [mp3@64kbps 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Alex Foster
• For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe - 00:04:23
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-696
  [mp3@64kbps 2.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.2MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Heat by H. D. - 00:00:49
  Source: Bartleby e-text #271-91
  [mp3@64kbps 400.1kBMB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 800.9kB]
  [ogg vorbis - 615.2kB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning - 00:04:31
  Source: Bartleby e-text #246-644
  [mp3@64kbps 2.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.8MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• I Died for Beauty by Emily Dickinson - 00:01:10
  Source: Bartleby e-text #113-4010
  [mp3@64kbps 562.9kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 856.1kB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt - 00:00:57
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-592
  [mp3@64kbps 457.1kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 913.5kB]
  [ogg vorbis - 642.6kB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 00:03:39
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-550
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.4MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina - 00:03:41
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-691
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.4MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore - 00:01:29
  Source: Bartleby e-text #41-487
  [mp3@64kbps 720.3kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• Laughing Corn by Carl Sandburg - 00:01:38
  Source: Bartleby e-text #134-5
  [mp3@64kbps 787.9kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• Love and Age by Thomas Love Peacock - 00:03:38
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-593
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.4MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot - 00:08:20
  Source: Bartleby e-text #198-1
  [mp3@64kbps 4.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 8.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.2MB]
  Read by: Peter Eastman
• My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson - 00:01:36
  Source: Bartleby e-text #188-119
  [mp3@64kbps 771.4kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 964.4kB]
  Read by: Henry Frigon
• Ode 314 by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi - 00:1:27
  Source: khamush.com
  [mp3@64kbps 702.5kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 711kB]
  Read by: Kayvan Sylvan
• The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb - 00:02:01
  Source: Bartleby e-text #106-220
  [mp3@64kbps 969.7kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• The Queen of Hearts by Christina Rossetti - 00:01:42
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #16950
  [mp3@64kbps 821.8kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 911.1kB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - 00:01:54
  Source: Bartleby e-text #119-1
  [mp3@64kbps 915.8kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - 00:12:48
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2148
  [mp3@64kbps 6.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 12.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.4MB]
  Read by: Sean Randall
• Thou Art not Lovelier than Lilacs No by Edna St. Vincent Millay - 00:01:29
  Source: Bartleby e-text #131-18
  [mp3@64kbps 717.2kB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Wreck of the Hesperus by H. W. Longfellow - 00:03:35
  Source: Bartleby e-text #42-777
  [mp3@64kbps 1.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.0MB]
  Read by: Tony Hightower