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  Music when soft voices die

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Music, when soft voices die by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 27th, 2008.

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  The 15th of Finality

  Valentyne DeBudge

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  She said she'd send someone to help him escape. 
  But escape what? 
  Since the day Sage's mother died, he was left with nothing more than the nagging feeling that there was something right in front of his eyes. Student Council President, perfect marks and attendance, Sage's picturesque life shatters the night he meets Drew. 
  An endearing young man, Drew lands in his life and claims it's all a lie. 
  Every moment scripted, every movement monitored, Sage finds himself at the heart of a conspiracy. Trusted allies become potential enemies and he starts to sense that everyone is keeping a bigger secret from him, even Drew. 
  He must use his wit to discern friend from foe and to read between the lines of his scripted world before the people in control realize he knows 
  in order to break free in  
  The 15th of Finality.

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  The Song of the Chattahoochee

  Sidney Lanier

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  Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he used dialects. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a university professor and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him.

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  Short Poetry Collection 072

  Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of October 2008.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Death - 12...

  Alfred Tennyson, Rainer Maria...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Death - An Introduction 
  2 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  3 - Death by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  4 - Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu 
  6 - After Death by Fanny Parnell 
  7 - Death by John Clare 
  8 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson 
  9 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  10 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  11 - I Would Fain Die a Dry Death by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  12 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  The Man with the Blue Guitar -...

  Wallace Stevens

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  Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. 
  His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved to New York City and worked briefly as a journalist. 
  From there he attended New York Law School and graduated in 1903. On a trip home to Reading in 1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel, a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer. 
  After working for several New York law firms he was hired in January 1908, as a lawyer for the American Bonding Company. 
  After a 6 year courtship Wallace and Elsie married in 1909 over the objections of his parents.  For Wallace it was a seismic event; he never spoke to his father again.  
  By 1914 Wallace had become the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1916, he joined Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and they moved to Hartford.  His work was full-time and time for his poetry writing was in short supply. 
  From January 1922 made several business several visits to Key West, Florida.  "The place is a paradise," he wrote to Elsie, "midsummer weather, the sky brilliantly clear and intensely blue, the sea blue and green beyond what you have ever seen." 
  In 1923 ‘Harmonium’ was published.  At last, at age 38, he was an overnight success.  His career was not prodigious in quantity but its quality was exceptional. 
  In March 1955 Wallace underwent various medical tests and an operation which resulted in a diagnosis of stomach cancer. 
  He travelled in early June to receive honorary Doctorates at Hartford and Yale. 
  Wallace was readmitted on July 21st to St. Francis Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Wallace Stevens died on the 2nd August 1955 at the age of 75.  
  He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

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