Poetry audiobooks
The Waste Land
by T. S. EliotThe Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt ..
The Aeneid
by VirgilThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. Virgil took the disconn..
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge's popular poetry The Rime of the Ancient Mariner narrates the incidents following a sailing crew and their unnecessary actions leading them to miserable situation. A deadly storm moves the mariner to an unknown region, and an albatross leads them to the right path. The crew kills the albatross without thinking and cursed to ..
On the Nature of Things
by Titus Lucretius CarusOn the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in ..
Poems Every Child Should Know
by Mary E. BURTPoems Every Child Should Know is a collection of popular and not so popular poems compiled Mary E. BURT for young readers. As the title says this collection are lite versions of the popular poems and the words are so simple and easy to memorize for kids. With a long list of more than eighty poems include unpopular poems like The Man With the Hoe, S..
The Lady of the Lake
by Sir Walter ScottWalter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake narrates the six days of actions in 6 cantos titled as The Chase, The Island, The Gathering, The Prophecy, The Combat, and The Guard-Room. The scene of the Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire...
John Keats: Selected Poems
by John KeatsWith just twenty five years of life and four years of publication, John Keats is considered one of the key figures of romantic poets of his contemporaries such as Lord Byron and Shelly. The popularity of his poems started bit later after his death and reached the pinnacle by end of 19th century. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual image..
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily DickinsonThough Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is considered as one of the most important poets of America, her contemporary literary world failed to recognize her poems. Emily Dickinson's irregular and free poetical style did not earn much recogniztion during her life time and hardly just a dozen of her works got published out of more than 1800 poems written by..