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  Hidden Gems

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  LibriVox volunteers offer you 17 different recordings of Hidden Gems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 9nd, 2010.

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  W B Yeats: Poems

  William Butler Yeats

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  This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Byzantium", and "Leda and the Swan".A HighBridge Audio production.

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  Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

  Aemilia Lanyer

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  Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion.  It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of the ancient world, and closes with the first "country house" poem written by a woman in English. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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  Waiting on Zapote Street - Love...

  Betty Viamontes

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  Winner of the 2018 Latino Books Into Movies Award, Drama TV Series.As the winds of revolution blow through Cuba, Laura Ocampo, a restless university student, defies her upbringing and becomes a supporter of Fidel Castro's rebels. When the hated Batista flees the country, she joins the thousands pouring into the streets to cheer as the bearded rebels, in the backs of trucks, roll into Havana in victory.Laura finds true love with a handsome revolutionary named Rio, and despite her family's pleas, they marry and start a family. But as the government becomes repressive, then brutal, she convinces Rio to leave Cuba while he still can. She plans to follow with their children, but a cruel twist of fate prevents their escape. As the country deteriorates, Laura must fight to protect and provide for her children while continuing to seek a way out. Separated by world politics and the communist regime, Rio and Laura are forced into things they had never imagined-including Santeria and organized crime-in order to survive. The one last chance to reunite their family will be greatest test of courage Laura has ever faced."From its opening shocks of loss and separation to its thrilling and emotional conclusion, Waiting on Zapote Street gives us a front-row experience of a Cuban family's hardship, love, and enduring love." John Henry Fleming, author and University of South Florida Creative Writing professor."This touching narrative depicts the harrowing trials, loss and separation that hit one particular family in Cuba when Castro comes to power...The author demonstrates numerous layers of Cuban life and belief..." Judge, 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Public Book Awards."

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  The Song of Wandering Aengus

  William Butler Yeats

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus, by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he paints an evocative picture of a beautiful brush with the supernatural. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 12, 2006.(Summary by Fox in the Stars)

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  Elegies & Laments - Poetic...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas...

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  In these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone’s passing.  Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one generation to the next, as an often lonely voice extols the virtues and traits of the one who has passed. 
   
  But these two very early forms of poetry, dating back to at least Ovid and probably further, are also surprising in their lyrical touch.  These are not just mournful and sad but also whimsical or rich with celebration and tribute as they journey through joy, laughter, love, tears and comfort. 
   
  Our Classic Poets, who have specifically chosen to include the form in the title of their work, include the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Aphra Behn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Radclyffe Hall and many others of equal measure are always surprising in their views, their analysis and their sharing of words and thoughts, offering feelings that mirror our own and provide a balm of many hues for our wounded and tender souls. 
   
  1 - Elegies and Laments - An Introduction 
  2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 
  3 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  4 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham 
  5 - Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  6 - Elegy - Supposed to Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 
  7 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 
  8 - A Lament by Radclyffe Hall 
  9 - An Elegy by Ben Jonson 
  10 - Laeta - A Lament by HP Lovecraft 
  11 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn 
  12 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 
  13 - Morning Lament by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  14 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  15 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston 
  16 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro 
  17 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 
  18 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  19 - Elegy by Anna Seward 
  20 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris 
  21 - Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns 
  22 - Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  23 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  24 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  25 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
  26 - The Slave's Lament by Benjamin Cutler Clark 
  27 - The Slaves Lament by Robert Burns 
  28 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan 
  29 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  30 - Lament in 1915 by Harold Munro 
  31 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 
  32 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope 
  33 - Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Bethrothed Killed by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  34 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  35 - The Mother's Lament For Her Infant by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  36 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton 
  37 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  38 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 
  39 - Elegy on the Earl of Rochester by Anne Wharton 
  40 - Elegy on William Shakespeare by William Basse 
  41 - Adonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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