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Short Poetry Collection 011

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 011 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire collection (16.7MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier - 00:04:30
  Source: Bartleby e-text #42-797
  [mp3@64kbps - 2.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.9MB]
  Read by: Christie Nowak
• The Bridge by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 00:02:44
  Source: Bartleby e-text #42-782
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Arctura
• A Cradle Song by William Butler Yeats - 00:00:39
  Source: Poets’ Corner - yeats01
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.3MB]
  Read by: Liam T
• Death the Leveller by James Shirley - 00:01:25
  Source: Bartleby e-text #106-69
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Laura Dornan
• Dedication for a Plot of Ground by William Carlos Williams - 00:02:17
  Source: Poets’ Corner - williams0101
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake
• The Duel by Eugene Field - 00:02:00
  Source: Bartleby e-text #102-231
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Christie Nowak
• Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen - 00:01:45
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #1034
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Brennan Holtzclaw
• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats - 00:00:47
  Source: Poets’ Corner - yeats01
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.4MB]
  Read by: Liam T
• Hysteria by T.S. Eliot - 00:01:09
  Source: Bartleby e-text #198-10
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Pete Marchetto
• If by Rudyard Kipling - 00:02:02
  Source: Gutenberg e-text #15529
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• It’s a Queer Time by Robert Graves - 00:02:29
  Source: Bartleby e-text #103-174
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Pete Marchetto
• Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - 00:01:45
  Source: Bartleby e-text #246-846
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Pete Marchetto
• Les Silhouettes by Oscar Wilde - 00:00:55
  Source: Bartleby e-text #143-34
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment by Anne Bradstreet - 00:03:10
  Source: Poets’ Corner - bradstr01
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.7MB]
  Read by: Ianna Drake
• Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field - 00:01:30
  Source: Bartleby e-text #104-5
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Christie Nowak
• Requiescat by Oscar Wilde - 00:01:08
  Source: Bartleby e-text #103-19
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats - 00:01:27
  Source: Poets’ Corner - yeats01
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Liam T
• Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde - 00:01:13
  Source: Bartleby e-text #143-12
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• When You are Old and Gray by William Butler Yeats - 00:01:03
  Source: Poets’ Corner - yeats01
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Liam T
• A White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly - 00:00:44
  Source: Bartleby e-text #101-831
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.5MB]
  Read by: Christie Nowak