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  When We Were Very Young -...

  A. Milne

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  "When We Were Very Young" is a book of poetry for children by the legendary British author A.A. Milne and marks the first appearance of the "silly old bear" who would soon become a worldwide sensation: Winnie-the-Pooh.   In these poems, the narrator - a young boy named Christopher Robin (after Milne's own son) - navigates the world of adolescence, imagining kings and queens, questing knights, talking bears, imaginary friends and explores the curiosity and wonder of the grown-up world seen through the eyes of a child.   "When We Were Very Young" - the first book of the Winnie-the-Pooh series - was an immediate hit when it was first published in 1924 and spawned the next three Pooh books: Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

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  There Are Still Woods

  Hila Ratzabi

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  There Are Still Woods is a radiant appraisal of life at the precipice of climate crisis and a haunting elegy for all we stand to lose. Through alternating lenses, from the speculative to the spiritual, from motherhood to science to mythology, Hila Ratzabi looks out at our wounded but vibrant planet and the animal experience of living on it. These poems bear witness to the force and fragility of the natural world and grapple with the complexities of being a human in that landscape: being implicated, vulnerable, humbled, dazzled. These poems are ways of framing and enduring loss, personal and collective and cultural, real and potential and anticipated. They impart a heightened appreciation for the solid and fleeting beauty that surrounds us. Here is an ode to the earth, a vision of its end, a celebration of its endurance, an aching and eloquent plea for intercession on its behalf. Ratzabi’s first collection is a howl, a prayer, a premonition, a reawakening, and an urgent call to action.

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  The Inner Landscape - Explore...

  John O'Donohue

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  Our bodies are mere outlines of a vast and complex interior world, a landscape of contradiction and immense mystery. This Celtic view of the human condition predates Christianity, yet survives to this day as part of Ireland's unique spiritual tradition. With The Inner Landscape, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue explores the themes of self-exile and hardship, and the Celtic way of welcoming paradox and finding precious light in the darkest valleys of our inner terrain.“Instead of fearing the contradictions of the outer world,” O'Donohue begins, “the Celtic people welcomed them.” They developed special blessings for times of suffering in the belief that hardship leads to a special insight or gift of the spirit. When you learn the Celtic “secret of equilibrium”—how to see every difficulty as a threshold of possibility—you renew your life with unending possibilities. Despite our vast technologies, O'Donohue says, our real knowledge is minimal. Only within “the inner landscape” with which we are each blessed can true knowing take place.

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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  A timeless story of passion, fate, and forbidden love, Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare's most celebrated romantic tragedy. Set in the vibrant city of Verona, this unforgettable play captures the intensity of youthful devotion and the devastating consequences of hatred and division.
  
  At the heart of the drama are two young lovers from feuding families—the Montagues and the Capulets—whose bitter rivalry casts a shadow over the entire city. When Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet at a masked celebration, it is love at first sight. Unaware at first of each other's identities, they are drawn together by an instant and profound connection that defies the hostility between their households.
  
  Determined to be together despite the dangers, they secretly marry, hoping their union might reconcile their families. But fate intervenes. A chain of misunderstandings, impulsive decisions, and tragic accidents escalates the conflict, leading to irreversible consequences. As tensions rise and violence erupts, their dream of a shared future slips further from reach.
  
  Through lyrical poetry and powerful imagery, Shakespeare explores themes of love and hate, destiny and choice, youth and impulsiveness, and the conflict between individual desire and social obligation. The play portrays love as both transcendent and perilous—a force capable of inspiring extraordinary courage yet vulnerable to the destructive forces of pride and prejudice.
  
  From the famous balcony scene to the heartbreaking final act, Romeo and Juliet remains one of the most performed and studied works in world literature. Its language is rich with beauty and emotion, and its characters—passionate, flawed, and deeply human—continue to resonate across generations.
  
  Poignant and unforgettable, Romeo and Juliet is more than a love story; it is a profound meditation on the cost of division and the fragile brilliance of young love. Shakespeare's masterpiece endures as a powerful reminder that even in a world torn by conflict, love can shine with extraordinary intensity—though sometimes at the highest price.

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  Poets on Poets - Famous poets...

  Thomas Hood, Alice Meynell,...

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  Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter.  Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.   
   
  In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves.  Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers.  Some are deeply personal others are abstract.  Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. 
   
  Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 
   
  01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction 
  02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold 
  03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey 
  04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell 
  05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay 
  06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley 
  07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin 
  08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall 
  09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
  13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood 
  14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell 
  15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson 
  16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
  17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys 
  19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith 
  21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare 
  22 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson 
  24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce 
  25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood 
  26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran 
  27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes 
  28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper 
  30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick 
  31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams 
  39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns 
  43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson 
  46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword 
  47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys 
  49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney 
  50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro 
  51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
  56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  57 - The

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  To the United States of America

  Robert Bridges

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  In celebration of Independence Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of To the United States of America by Robert Bridges. This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of July 1st, 2007. (Summary by Sean McKinley)

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