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Wedding Poems

by various

In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

• LibriVox’s Wedding Poems Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (12 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

mp3 and ogg files

• Apache Wedding Prayer by Unknown - 00:01:06
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Elegy XX by John Donne - 00:04:00
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.0MB]
  Read by: Paula Berinstein
• Extract from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage by A. Marsh - 00:02:23
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Gesine
• A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning by John Donne - 00:02:31
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Marlo Dianne
• Gaelic Blessing by unknown - 00:00:26
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 0.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.2MB]
  Read by: Chris Goringe
• Love is Enough by William Morris - 00:01:04
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - 00:01:13
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• Nähe des Geliebten - Proximity of the Beloved One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring) - 00:01:54
  E-text in German
  E-text in English
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Rainer
• The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe - 00:01:56
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Catharine Eastman
• The Quakeress Bride by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney - 00:02:45
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare - 00:01:09
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Mark Bradford
• Under the Snow by Robert Collyer - 00:04:02
  E-text
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.1MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg

The project was cataloged on April 30, 2006.