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Short Poetry Collection 005

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 005: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

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mp3 and ogg files

• Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon – 00:00:53
  Source: Bartleby e-text #135-2
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  Read by: Wesley Thompson-Smith
• The Creation by James Weldon Johnson – 00:04:31
  Source: Bartleby e-text #269-41
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  Read by: Robert Garrison
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost – 00:00:33
  Source: Bartleby e-text #155-2
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  Read by: Paul Gorman
• The Flower Boat by Robert Frost – 00:00:56
  Source: Bartleby e-text #155-3
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  Read by: Paul Gorman
• For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost – 00:01:16
  Source: Bartleby e-text #155-4
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  Read by: Paul Gorman
• Hiawatha’s Photographing by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) – 00:07:13
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #651
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  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• In Hospital by William Ernest Henley – 00:01:49
  Source: victorianweb.org
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  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley – 00:01:30
  Source: Bartleby e-text #103-7
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  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• The Jumblies by Edward Lear – 00:03:18
  Source: Bartleby e-text #246-841
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  Read by: Nomenphile
• The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – 00:09:20
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-700
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  Read by: Peter Eastman
• Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin – 00:03:42
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-691
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  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• Lie-Awake Song by Amelia Josephine Burr – 00:01:23
  Source: Bartleby e-text #104-79
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  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Miss T. by Walter de la Mare – 00:00:47
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #3753
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  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning – 00:03:14
  Source: Bartleby e-text #42-668
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  Read by: Paul Gorman
• The Sigh by Thomas Hardy – 00:01:32
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #2997
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  Read by: Gabriel Pauluzzi
• Sometimes by Thomas S. Jones Jr. – 00:00:46
  Source: Bartleby e-text #267-74
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  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied by Edna St. Vincent Millay – 00:00:54
  Source: Source
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  Read by: Tracy Hall
• A Summer Night by Elizabeth Stoddard – 00:01:01
  Source: Bartleby e-text #248-429
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  Read by: Robert Garrison
• To E by Sara Teasdale – 00:01:03
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #442
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  Read by: David Baker
• To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell – 00:02:28
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-357
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  Read by: Paul Gorman