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Sympathy

by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou’s 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 14th, 2007.

• E-text
• Wikipedia - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Wikipedia - Martin Luther King Day
• LibriVox’s Sympathy Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (12.5MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

Total running time: 0:25:58

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:01:42
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:17
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Claire Goget
• Version 3 - 00:01:46
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Cori Samuel
• Version 4 - 00:01:47
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: David Barnes
• Version 5 - 00:01:36
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Beth Peat
• Version 6 - 00:01:30
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Ezwa
• Version 7 - 00:01:22
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: JimmyLogan
• Version 8 - 00:01:39
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• Version 9 - 00:01:57
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Kristin LeMoine
• Version 10 - 00:01:24
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Laurie Anne Walden
• Version 11 - 00:01:40
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Mark F. Smith
• Version 12 - 00:01:32
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Version 13 - 00:01:35
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Sam Fold
• Version 14 - 00:01:46
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Sean McGaughey
• Version 15 - 00:01:49
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Ted Delorme
• Version 16 - 00:01:36
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.9MB]
  Read by: Val Grimm

Cataloged on January 21, 2007