Poetry audiobooks

Love Songs

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet... Read more

Transfer

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life."— William Stafford
Dusk where is the name no one answered... Read more

Aux marches du palais

By: Albert Millaire

Narrated by: Albert Millaire

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Millaire considère la fréquentation des classiques comme toujours profitable et enrichissante, surtout si elle se fait auprès d'un grand nombre d'auteurs et de leurs oeuvres. C'est la raison qui l'a incité à concevoir et monter, en entier, un spectacle pour les faire revivre. Produit à partir d'un enregistrement en direct à la Chapelle... Read more

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

By: Harry Graham

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Graham was an English writer of light verse, popular fiction, and history. He is best remembered for his grotesque and humorous verses, which parody the children’s cautionary verses of his day. His most successful work was his series of hilariously cruel Ruthless Rhymes, first published in 1898 under the pseudonym Col. D. Streamer. Billy,... Read more

Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda!

By: Paquito D'Rivera

Narrated by: Paquito D'Rivera

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067... Read more

The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems

By: Banjo Paterson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventure from the Australian Outback. Cowboy style poetry from Australia's Banjo Paterson. Includes the poems: "The Man from Snowy River:, "Old Pardon", "Clancy", and "Conroy's Gap". Read more

Poems from the Heart

By: HM, HRH Laxmiben Hirani

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems From The Heart, will change your life, it is not like any other poetry book that you have read, that has been on the book shelves before. It has the ability to make you think of life in general, no matter what situation one may be in. As it applies for the people of today and in the future, as I have made it so, that my poetry continues... Read more

Flame and Shadow

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Poetry Society of America prize, and other awards - lived for love and beauty and died by her own hand. Her poetry shows vividly what an intensely passionate woman she was, so much so that in some of her poetry she speaks of the impact of beauty in terms of physical pain, and the impact of love in... Read more

W. B. Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his... Read more

The Aeneid

By: Virgil

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rome. A unique hero, Aenas struggles and fights not for personal gain but for a civilization that will exist in the far future. Caught between passion and fate, his vision would change the course of the Western world.Virgil,... Read more

She Walks in Beauty

By: author

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Jane Alexander, John Bedford ...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life.

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating... Read more

Smoke and Steel

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging. The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere... Read more

Cornhuskers

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or... Read more

Chicago Poems

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This was Carl Sandburg's breakthrough book. It is easy to see how it draws directly on Sandburg's life in Chicago, as it speaks powerfully of the specific character of that city and begins with his famous poem that names Chicago as the "City of the Broad Shoulders". His poetry is deeply aware of the inner life of the city, from a homeless woman... Read more

L'art d'être grand-père

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

À 75 ans, Victor Hugo a perdu sa femme, sa fille Léopoldine et ses deux fils. Il se retrouve seul avec ses deux petits enfants, Jeanne et Georges. Alors que la vieillesse lui apparaît, elle s'entoure de la plus petite jeunesse, et l'art d'être grand-père s'impose à l'auteur : c'est obéir aux plus petits. Sa démarche littéraire se fond avec son... Read more

Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a collection of seventy-one poems, and Memoranda during the War, an intimate diary of his experience tending to the... Read more

Iliade

By: Omero

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

L'opera originale nella versione del grande grecista Ettore Romagnoli. Read more

Slabs of the Sunburnt West

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry. His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view. Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th... Read more

Santa's Computer the Story, Other Love Stories, and a Poem

By: Marc Steven Berkoff

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

No information available at this time. Author will provide once available. Read more

Don Juan

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The best way to appreciate this long and fascinating poem, really a novel in verse, is to just let it wash over you. Don't try to get caught up in the story, for Byron won't let you do that; don't try to figure it out, for Byron doesn't want you to do that either. Just listen to the man converse with you and enjoy his playful talk - that's why... Read more

Poesie: Antologia di 24 canti

By: Giacomo Leopardi

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Una selezione dei 24 canti più famosi di Giacomo Leopardi, con musiche originali di Ivan Genesio. All'Italia; Ultimo Canto di Saffo; Il Primo Amore; Il Passero Solitario; L'Infinito; La Sera del Dì di Festa; Alla Luna; Il Sogno; La Vita solitaria; Alla sua donna; A Silvia; Le Ricordanze; Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia; La quiete... Read more

Kuttel Daddeldu - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kuttel Daddeldu - das ist der Name des Seebären, den Joachim Ringelnatz gerne auf der Bühne gab. Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert war die Figur des Matrosen, der in jedem Hafen ne Braut und mit jeder Braut mindestens 12 Kinder hat - Prostituiertenbesuche mal dezent außen vor gelassen - einer der beliebtesten Bühnencharaktere. Hier wurde richtig derb... Read more

Willst Du Dein Herz mir schenken? - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Gottlieb ...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Willst Du Dein Herz mir schenken?" Diese Frage stellt man besonders gern am Valentinstag. Die schönsten Liebesgedichte aller Zeiten von Goethe bis Shakespeare sind hier vereint. Zum einen die perfekte Zitatsammlung für die Valentinskarte, zum anderen ein perfektes Geschenk - anstelle der Karte! Einfühlsam vorgetragen von Sven... Read more

Galgenlieder - Abridged

By: Christoph Morgenroth

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Galgenlieder von Christian Morgenstern… Zuerst wurden sie von der Kritik als "Unsinnslyrik" eingestuft; bald aber bemerkte man, dass sie eine riesige Anhängerschaft gefunden hatten - und höchsten literarischen Wert besaßen! Tucholsky bemerkte: "Man lacht sich krumm - und bemerkt hinterher, dass man einen philosophischen Satz gelernt hat."... Read more