Poetry audiobooks

A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses is children's poetry collection written by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published with the title of Penny Whistles, this poetry collection contains many popular classic poetry like Foreign Children, The Lamplighter, The Land of Counterpane, Bed in Summer, My Shadow, and The Swing. A fun packed read f..

Moments of Vision

by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, the English novelist well known for his romantic & tragic novels was not recognized by his contemporaries as a poet. Indeed he had been continuously published poems during his life time and this collection contains forty of his poems. Most of his poems dealt with love, life and disappointment with tragic themes...

Guards Came Through and other Poems

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Guards Came Through and other Poems is a collection of poem written by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, who was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson...

Love and Friendship

by Jane Austen

Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was fourteen, and The History of ..

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

by Charles Dickens

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume was released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012 and further volumes..

Harbour Dawn

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Harbour Dawn is a poety collection written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. ..

Wessex Poems

by Thomas Hardy

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (often referred to simply as Wessex Poems) is a collection of fifty-one poems set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape by English writer Thomas Hardy. It was first published in 1898 by New York: Harper, ISBN 1-58734-021-6, and contained a number of illustrations by the author himself. Two notable early poe..

My Shadow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A perfect piece for the beginning treble choir. The text depicts wonderful pictures, and its engaging and spunky adjectives will surely make the children smile. A single melody is used for all four verses with variation coming from the dynamics and tempi.I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is mor..