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  Chinese Poetry in English Verse...

  Herbert Allen Giles

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  Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! -- that I tookThese snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na'er belong. Thy gems shine purer in their native bed Concealed, beyond the pry of vulgar eyes; And there, through labyrinths of language led, The patient student grasps the glowing prize. Yet many, in their race toward other goals, May joy to feel, albeit at second-hand, Some far faint heart-throb of poetic souls Whose breath makes incense in the flowery Land. Introductory poem by H.A.G.

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  Cheese Curd for Bait

  James McIntyre

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Cheese Curd for Bait by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 23, 2012.James McIntyre, born in Scotland, came to Canada in 1841. He finally settled in Ingersoll (a town in central Ontario on the banks of the Thames River), the then-heart of Canadian dairy country.He was well loved in the community, from which he often received aid in hard times, due in part to his poesy and oratorical skills — he was called on to speak at every kind of social gathering in Ingersoll. The region seems to have inspired him, and it was in celebration of the proud history of Canada, the natural beauty and industry of the region, and especially its cheese, that the majority of his oeuvre was written. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Fifty Shades of August - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Henry David...

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  The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.   
   
  Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction 
  2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield 
  3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon 
  9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley 
  13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter 
  14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford 
  16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay 
  21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford 
  23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  26 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall 
  32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman 
  34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  36 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  39 - Seashore by Tagore 
  40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune 
  41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats 
  46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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  Short Poetry Collection 086

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of February 2010.

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  The Fall of the House of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age.  Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy,  West Point where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  His early literary works were poetic but he quickly turned to prose. He worked for several magazines and journals until in January 1845 The Raven was published and became an instant classic. 
   
  Thereafter followed the works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and macabre. In this volume we bring you some of his poetry, all less well known than his stories, but fascinating none the less. Some are dark and others speak of love.  Together they help to round out Edgar Allan Poe the Artist. Poe died at the early age of 40 in 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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  Poems and Ramblings: of a...

  Jan Esmann

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  These poems offer unique insights into the heart and soul of an enlightened person. The spirit of the poems is contagious and reading them can give rise to a transmission or awakening of Shakti (spiritual energy). The author is an ardent Mother devotee, which shines forth in every poem. The book is divided into two equal parts. 1. the poems. 2. the ramblings which are short prose pieces on spirituality and sadhana (spiritual practices). In the second part, the important practice of Kriya Pranayama is explained.

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