Poetry audiobooks

My Dog May Be a Genius

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch in a hardware store? Have you ever sat with a skunk in a courtroom, shopped for a dinosaur, or conversed with a Bupple, a Wosstrus, a Violinnet, or a Celloon? You will have, once you've read this exuberant collaboration from Jack Prelutsky... Read more

It's Raining Pigs and Noodles

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The master of mischievous rhyme, Jack Prelutsky has whipped up a storm of more than one hundred hilarious poems. Grab your umbrella—and make sure it's a big one!It's raining pigs and noodles,
it's pouring frogs and hats,
chrysanthemums and poodles,
bananas, brooms, and cats.
Assorted prunes and parrots
are dropping from the sky,
here comes a bunch of... Read more

Hate That Cat

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Scott Wolf

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to Miss Stretchberry's class with Jack, the reluctant poet, who over the course of a year encounters new and challenging things like metaphors, alliterations, onomatopoeia, and one mean fat black cat!The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, introduced Jack in Love That Dog, a New York Times bestseller. Both Love... Read more

Patriotic Grace

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column has been must reading for thoughtful liberals and conservatives alike. Now she issues an urgent, heartfelt call for all Americans to support the next President. Because it is not the threats and challenges we face, but how we face them that defines us as a nation.The terrible events of 9/11 brought us... Read more

The Frogs and Toads All Sang

By: Arnold Lobel

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes a brand-new collection of rhyming stories about frogs and toads. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, The Frogs and Toads All Sang has the same warmth, compassion, and humor that is found in his best-loved work. Brimming with sweet silliness, this new book reminds us why Arnold... Read more

Odd Owls & Stout Pigs

By: Arnold Lobel

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes another brand-new collection of rhyming stories—this time featuring a unique assortment of owls and pigs. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, Odd Owls & Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense is full of the same humor and wit that is found in Lobel's beloved Frog and Toad stories. This... Read more

Give Us Liberty

By: Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as... Read more

Stardines Swim High Across the Sky

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Jack Prelutsky

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky evokes both natural history museums... Read more

After the Fire

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: J. A. Jance

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeatBefore she found fame as a bestselling mystery... Read more

Believe Me

By: John R. Alden

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"How did Arkman Noah / Provide for protozoa?" It's not often that an acclaimed historian takes a turn for light verse. But in these 1,707 couplets, quatrains, and other terse verse, John R. Alden takes on the tradition of Ogden Nash. His subject matter ranges from dinosaurs to computers, from Confucius to Darwin, from Jonah to George Bush. 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

Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The epitome of the Romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well-known in his time for the revolutionary panache with which he lived as for his extremely popular verse. “As a myth,” wrote Bertrand Russell, “his importance, especially on the continent, was enormous.” His many tempestuous relationships were the subject of scandal which only added... Read more

William Blake

By: William Blake

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” —from “Auguries of Innocence”At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought his work a new and intense interest and acclaim. A poet, artist, and... Read more

John Donne

By: John Donne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as "no man is an island," "death be not proud," and "for whom the bell tolls," which provided the title for one of Ernest Hemingway's novels.John Donne used poems as a means of metaphysical inquiry and meditation as well as for very... Read more

Wordsworth

By: William Wordsworth

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped... Read more

John Keats

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his... Read more

Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of... Read more

Robert Browning

By: Robert Browning

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Robert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a training ground which God provided in His divine love and sovereign will.Given Browning’s intensely... Read more

Don Juan

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Byron's exuberant masterpiece narrates the exploits of Don Juan, a handsome and charming young man naturally gifted with the ladies. After his first illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain, Don Juan is exiled to Italy and catapulted into a string of adventures that send him into dire peril and luxurious boudoirs around the... Read more

The Song of Roland

By: unknown

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic epic revolves around the battle between the Franks and the Moors in 778.Though he has grown up in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland is in fact descended from great heroes of old. Since his youth, his mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of his uncle,... 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

Beowulf

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who accomplishes glorious deeds to honor his king. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, generous to his own men while fulfilling all the forms of courtesy at... Read more

We Speak Your Names

By: Pearl Cleage

Narrated by: Pearl Cleage

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sisterhood in the service of truth is an undeniable force in these remarkable times. My Sisters, here, there, and everywhere, this poem is for you.”In the tradition of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, bestselling author Pearl Cleage brings us an inspiring poem for all women, destined to become a classic.Cleage refers to We Speak Your Names as a... Read more

Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read more