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Short Poetry Collection 076

by Various

This is an open collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of February 2009.

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Total running time: 1:23:42

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• Babylon by A G Stephens (1865-1933) – 00:02:26
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  Read by: Rhonda Federman
• The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) – 00:05:34
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  Read by: Elizabeth Klett
• Celia by Lola Ridge (1883-1941) – 00:05:18
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Shona
• Description of a City Shower by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) – 00:04:20
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  Read by: John Nixon
• The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) – 00:01:16
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Lucy Perry
• Election Day by Ambrose Biercee (1842-1914) – 00:02:18
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Craig Campbell
• Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne (1572–1631) – 00:03:49
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  Read by: Julie VW
• The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) – 00:02:29
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Shona
• The Garden by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) – 00:03:38
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Jason Mills
• God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) – 00:01:30
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Elizabeth Klett
• Happy The Man by John Dryden (1631-1700) – 00:00:37
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  Read by: Lucy Perry
• He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) – 00:00:51
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Julie VW
• I stood tip-toe upon a little hill by John Keats (1795-1821) – 00:16:25
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Sergio Baldelli
• An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) – 00:01:12
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  Read by: Jason Mills
• Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) – 00:03:33
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: John Nixon
• Master of Music by Henry van Dyke ( 1852-1933 ) – 00:01:55
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  Read by: Carol Stripling
• Ode by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy ( 1844-1881) – 00:03:48
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  Read by: Carol Stripling
• The Rebel by Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916) – 00:03:49
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: D�lib�b
• The Sacrifice of Iphigenia by Aeschylus (525 BC – 431 BC) – 00:04:42
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Rhonda Federman
• Song by John Donne (1572-1631) – 00:01:09
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  Read by: pla303
• Sonnet LXI by Michael Drayton (1562 – 1631) – 00:01:17
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  Read by: Kalynda
• Sonnet XIV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861) – 00:01:15
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Neeru Iyer
• To his Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638) – 00:01:43
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: David Barnes
• To Two Bereaved by Thomas Ashe (1836–1889) – 00:01:01
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: David Barnes
• The Traveled Man by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) – 00:01:51
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  Read by: Kalynda
• Urizen’s Words of Wisdom by William Blake (1757 – 1827) – 00:02:30
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Craig Campbell
• The Way through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) – 00:01:21
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Ruth Golding
• A White Rose by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844 – 1890) – 00:00:50
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  Read by: Neeru Iyer
• Winter by Robert Southey (1774 – 1843) – 00:01:15
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Ruth Golding

Cataloged on April 02, 2009