Poetry audiobooks

A Happy New Year and Other Verses (UNABRIDGED)

By: Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford

Narrated by: Jamie Cuffe, Brian Goodall, Michael Kelly & Kar...

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This is a collection of 27 poems, some seasonal to New Years and Christmas, but others on themes of religion, nature and home. Read more

A Tree with a Bird in it (UNABRIDGED)

By: MARGARET WIDDEMER

Narrated by: Mary Chavez, Heath Schulze, Clyde Camp & Antion...

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Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a poem based on the aforementioned topic. Read more

Rhymes of Childhood (UNABRIDGED)

By: Edgar A. Guest

Narrated by: Joseph Blair, Donna Barnett, Joe Okeefe & Ashle...

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa comes home!”, and many more. These are sure to evoke nostalgia, lots of smiles, and maybe a couple sighs or tears. Read more

The Dial: The First Number of the Series (UNABRIDGED)

By: Charles Haslewood Shannon

Narrated by: Jasper Whiting, Donna Fong, Natalie Meyerson & ...

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The Dial was an art magazine, which ran to five issues between 1889 and 1897. It was edited and published by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon from The Vale, their shared home in Chelsea, London. Contributors to this first number include the editors, R. Savage, and the poet John Gray (who is best known as the rumored inspiration for Oscar... Read more

The Kobzar of the Ukraine (UNABRIDGED)

By: Taras Shevchenko

Narrated by: Bernard Wimberly, Stanley Boggioni, Robert Davi...

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tang about some of them, somewhat like the taste of olives, to which one must grow accustomed . The Slavonic temperament, too, is given to melancholy and seems to dwell congenially in an atmosphere misty with... Read more

Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels (UNABRIDGED)

By: ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Narrated by: John Sanchez, Antonio Shoemake, Maryann Rowe & ...

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a single reader (Foon), with the exception of a few poems that are written as small theatrical plays Read more

From Dawn to Noon: Poems (UNABRIDGED)

By: Violet Fane

Narrated by: Barbara Bart, Venessa Derryberry, Lori Marvin &...

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This is a collection of poems by Violet Fane, pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie. The poems convey a lot of emotion, feeling, and sympathy. Read more

The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (UNABRIDGED)

By: TENNYSON ALFRED

Narrated by: Chae Alvarado, Marietta Myers, Ernest Goggans &...

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To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while... Read more

From Queen's Gardens - Second Part (UNABRIDGED)

By: JEAN INGELOW

Narrated by: Samantha May, Michael Bruce, Harriet Bixler & J...

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This is the second part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 30 poems by Jean Ingelow. Read more

From Queen's Gardens - Third Part (UNABRIDGED)

By: Adelaide Anne Procter

Narrated by: Ryan Murphy, Dorothy Hines, Jimmy Giebler & Tho...

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the third part of a collection of poetry written by English female poets. This part of From Queen's Gardens is a collection of 29 poems by Adelaide Anne Procter. Read more

The Houses of Sin (UNABRIDGED)

By: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Jerald Weber, Lorraine Teske, Dale Banks & Kris...

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This is a volume of poetry by notable American horror story author Vincent O'Sullivan. These poems are as dark as most of his other writings, and are best enjoyed by those who are not faint of heart. Read more

The Spook Ballads (UNABRIDGED)

By: William Theodore Parkes

Narrated by: Maria Scott, Melissa Simpson, Michael Mckinney ...

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry."Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as would have been dear to the heart of Ingoldsby. There is a rugged force in 'The Girl of Castlebar'... Read more

The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems (UNABRIDGED)

By: Dora Sigerson Shorter

Narrated by: Lawrence Eaton, Helen Lockett, Raymond Morris &...

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds in connecting a modern style of poetry with deep emotion and themes of Irish mythology. Read more

Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces (UNABRIDGED)

By: Thomas HARDY

Narrated by: Daphne Tagle, Roger Battee, Barbara Jackson & K...

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy Read more

By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies (UNABRIDGED)

By: BLISS CARMAN

Narrated by: Bernard Ruderman, Flossie Morrison, Helen Webb ...

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This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. Read more

Poems & Parodies (UNABRIDGED)

By: Tom Kettle

Narrated by: Irene Sebring, Anthony Gordon, Tricia Garcia & ...

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Tom Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. All these varied interests helped him compose beautiful and very witty poetry, until his death at the Western Front in World War I. This volume was published immediately after his death, and may give a good overview over the work and the... Read more

Underneath the Bough (UNABRIDGED)

By: Michael Field

Narrated by: Walter Samuels, Eileen Walter, Ruth Hillard & J...

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This is a collection of poems by Michael Field, the pseudonym of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper. Those poems are of interest not only because they are beautiful examples of aesthetic poetry, but also because many of them contain homosexuality as a theme. The joint authors lived openly as a lesbian couple for forty years around... Read more

Songs Ysame (UNABRIDGED)

By: ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

Narrated by: Elizabeth Stratton, Timothy Snyder, Molly Walte...

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This is a volume of poetry written by the sisters Albion Fellows Bacon and Annie Fellows Johnston. Both of the sisters reached quite a level of fame in their own right, Ms Bacon primarily as a social reformer and Ms Johnston as an author of children's books. In this volume of poetry, they bring their two sets of skills together to write... Read more

Poems on Slavery (UNABRIDGED)

By: Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW

Narrated by: Joan Storey, Amanda Trotter, Nola Pajerski & Ve...

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This is a short volume of abolitionist poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1842. As Wikipedia notes, Longfellow himself was not entirely satisfied with his work: "However, as Longfellow himself wrote, the poems were 'so mild that even a Slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast'. A critic for The... Read more

Outlook Odes (UNABRIDGED)

By: T. W. H. CROSLAND

Narrated by: Blake Noonkester, Wilbert Rose, Carolyn Miller ...

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This is a collection of poems by TWH Crosland. While earning some fame as a writer and poet himself, he is today best remembered for the rather shameful role he played in the trial of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of the persecution. Nevertheless, his poetry is of interest as an item of the time, in quick, free verse, and with many allusions... Read more

Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy (UNABRIDGED)

By: William Henry Helm

Narrated by: Clayton Spaulding, Harold Reaves, Sharon Salisb...

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Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is still sweet. Helm briefly surveys Jane Austen's influences, literary contemporaries and themes. He is particularly interested in her... Read more

Poems and Ballads (UNABRIDGED)

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Donald Kirby, Lori Moore, Shirley Toro & Shelia...

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This is a volume of poetry by Heinrich Heine, translated by Emma Lazarus. The poetry of Heinrich Heine is still widely read today within Germany, and this fine translation by Emma Lazarus has added to a greater readership in English-speaking countries at the time it was published (1881). Read more

Poems, 1914-1919 (UNABRIDGED)

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Karma Braswell, Beverly Anderson, William Michl...

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This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly about his travels in Russia. The other part of the collection is made up of poetry concerning World War I, with some particulalry evocative sonnets and other poems. Read more

Poems & Songs (UNABRIDGED)

By: Richard Middleton

Narrated by: Ashley Rivera, John Kay, Doug Castillo & Juliet...

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This is a volume of poetry by English poet Richard Middleton. While hardly known to readers anymore today, Middleton's poems, stories, and essays were all very highly regarded during his lifetime and after his untimely death, having won the admiration of many of his contemporary critics and writers whose fame endured longer than that of... Read more