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  Short Poetry Collection 009

  Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 009: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Shakespeare Monologues...

  William Shakespeare

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  William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in such a variety of genres - tragedy, comedy, romance, &c - that there is always at least one monologue in each of his plays. Some of these teach a lesson, some simply characterize Shakespeare at his best, some are funny, some sad, but all are very moving. Each monologue will touch everybody differently. Some people will be so moved by a particular monologue that they will want to record it. So here are the first fifteen monologues. (Summary by Shurtagal).

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  John Donne - Selected Poems

  John Donne

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  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 sensual expression. His daringly original use of imagery and conceits to lead the mind to profound understandings marked a new, intellectual approach to poetry. Like Shakespeare, Donne was a genius at making common words yield up rich, poetic meaning. His thought is complex, but his poems unfold in a logical way. 
  This collection includes songs, satires, elegies, selections from The Anniversaries, and divine poems. 
  Contents are: 
  I. Divine Poems "Resurrection, Imperfect" "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward" "From the Lamentations of Jeremy" "Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness" "A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany" "A Hymn to God the Father" 
  II. From The Anniversaries "An Anatomy of the World" "Of the Progress of the Soul" 
  III. Songs, Satires, Elegies "The Expiration" "The Computer" "The Bait" "Song" "Love's Deity" "Woman's Contancy" "The Indifferent" "Community" "The Curse" "The Flea" "The Message" "The Apparition" "The Broken Heart" "Break of Day" "Confined Love" "From Sappho to Philaenis" "To His Mistress Going to Bed (Elegy 19)" "The Good Morrow" "The Sun Rising" "Jealousy (Elegy 1)" "Love's Exchange" "The Will" "Satire 2" "Satire 3" "From Metempsychosis" "The Storm" "The Calm" "To Sir Henry Wotton" "His Picture (Elegy 5" "On His Mistress (Elegy 16)" "The Dream" "The Prohibition" "The Canonization" "Air and Angels" "The Ecstasy" "A Fever" "Lover's Infiniteness" "The Anniversary" "A Valediciton: of Weeping" "Song" "A Valediciton: Forbidding Mouring" "The Undertaking" "The Funeral" "The Relic" "Twicknam Garden" "A Lecture upon the Shadow" "A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day" "The Autumnal (Elegy 9)"

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  The Apology

  Anne Kingsmill Finch

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  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court and his wife, Anne Haslewood. She was well-educated as her family believed in good education for girls as well as for boys.In her works Finch drew upon her own observations and experiences, demonstrating an insightful awareness of the social mores and political climate of her era. But she also artfully recorded her private thoughts, which could be joyful or despairing, playful or despondent. The poems also revealed her highly developed spiritual side. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  End of Harvest

  William Bell Scott

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  Librivox volunteers bring you eight readings of End of Harvest, by William Bell Scott. This is the fortnightly poetry project for November 9, 2014.

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  You Bid Me Try

  Henry Austin Dobson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of "You Bid Me Try" by Austin Dobson . This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24, 2011.Henry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best. It was not until 1868 that the appearance of St Paul's, a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope, gave Harry Dobson an opportunity and an audience; and during the next six years he contributed some of his favourite poems, including "Tu Quoque," "A Gentleman of the Old School," "A Dialogue from Plato," and "Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their original form were illustrated—some, indeed, were written to support illustrations. (summary from Wikipedia)

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