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Short Poetry Collection 040

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 040: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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• Aboard, at the Ship’s Helm by Walt Whitman – 00:01:30
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  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake
• Before Action by W.N Hodgson – 00:01:34
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  Read by: PodVoxer
• The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson – 00:00:47
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  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Dear heart, why will you use me so? by James Joyce – 00:00:58
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  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Gentle lady, do not sing by James Joyce – 00:00:41
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  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Golden Pulse by John Myers O’Hara – 00:00:49
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  Read by: Lee Ann Howlett
• A Hand-Mirror by Walt Whitman – 00:01:30
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  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake
• I do not love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton – 00:01:23
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  Read by: Clarica
• It Is Not a Word by Sara Teasdale – 00:00:34
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  Read by: Clarica
• Love came to us in time gone by by James Joyce – 00:00:45
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  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Martin by Joyce Kilmer – 00:02:12
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  Read by: Lee Ann Howlett
• May Day by Sara Teasdale – 00:00:49
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• The Most-Sacred Mountains by Eunice Tietjens – 00:02:44
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  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake
• The Nights Remember by Sara Teasdale – 00:00:47
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  Read by: Clarica
• A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman – 00:01:04
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  Read by: Sean McKinley
• The Rear Porches of an Apartment Building by Maxwell Bodenheim – 00:01:33
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  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake
• Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen – 00:01:56
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  Read by: Alan Clare
• Sonnet 01 by Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench – 00:00:49
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  Read by: Kayl
• With Esther by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt – 00:01:48
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  Read by: Patrick Beverley
• The World Below the Brine by Walt Whitman – 00:01:48
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  Read by: Alan Davis-Drake

Cataloged on July 30, 2007