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Christmas Morning

Field, Eugene
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 12, 2010.
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.
Ghosts' High Noon

W. S. Gilbert
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for October 24th, 2010.
Golden Days of Good Queen Bess

Sir John Carr
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Parody on "The Golden Days of good Queen Bess" by Sir John Carr. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009.
Christmas Duet

Joseph Ashby-Sterry
Joseph Ashby-Sterry was an English poet and novelist. He works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry, now out of print. This poem is taken from the 1888 edition of The Lazy Minstrel.
Beauty Making

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
Witnesses

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Witnesses by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2020.
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Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. His was quite prolific, with thirty-six books and 1,500 poems to his credit. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". (Wikipedia)
Epitaph On A Goldfish

Richard le Gallienne
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of An Epitaph On A Goldfish by Richard le Gallienne.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 11, 2020.
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Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet.
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Quarrel

Madison Cawein
This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901)
Usher's Charge

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. In 1890, Gilbert produced Songs of a Savoyard, (the source of this Weekly Poem), a volume of sixty-nine detached lyrics from the Savoy Operas, each with a new title, and some of them slightly reworded to account for the changed context.
To The Women of Australia

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best". She made a very popular appearance during World War I in France, reciting her poem, The Stevedores ("Here's to the Army stevedores, lusty and virile and strong...") while visiting a camp of 9,000 US Army stevedores. (Wikipedia)
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Poetry Everywhere

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.

Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. According to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Gilbert's "lyrical facility and his mastery of metre raised the poetical quality of comic opera to a position that it had never reached before and has not reached since"
Contrasts

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Contrasts by Madison Julius Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 29, 2022.
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Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) by Madison Julius Cawein (1907)
Wind Of The Sea

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Wind Of The Sea by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31, 2021.
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James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental.
Clouds of the Autumn Night

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Clouds of the Autumn Night by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 21, 2021.
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A tribute to the Autumnal Equinox this week, taken from Myth and Romance Being a Book of verses by MADISON CAWEIN.
Slave In The Dismal Swamp

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow wrote poetry like John Singer Sargent painted portraits, with "economy of stroke", and this poem shows Longfellow's familiarity with and sympathy for the slavery issues of his day, and the ghastly contrast between nature's beauty and man-made hell. A contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), both used their literary art to raise consciousness of this intolerable practice. (Michele Fry)
Christmas Carol

Charles Kingsley
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Kingsley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 22, 2019.
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Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era.
Christmas Letter

Helen Leah Reed
Volunteers bring you 11 of A Christmas Letter by Helen Leah Reed.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 8, 2019.
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The trials of writing thank you notes.
Weed or Flower

Helen Leah Reed
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Weed or Flower by Helen Leah Reed.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2019.
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American teacher and author; known for her children's books, which were entertaining as well as educative, the best remembered being her Brenda series of novels.
Cuisine

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, who was considered a popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander Pope's "Whatever is, is right."None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose no fewer than fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "The Way Of The World" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems.She is frequently cited in anthologies of bad poetry, such as The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse and Very Bad Poetry.
Potato's Dance

Vachel Lindsay
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Potato's Dance by Vachel Lindsay. This was the weekly poetry project for March 22nd, 2009.
Verses on a Young Lady

Tobias Smollett
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010.

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens.
Song..While with fond rapture

Tobias Smollett
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Song by Tobias Smollett. This is the weekly poem starting from October 16th, 2011. It's a lovely love song.
Thrice Welcome

Morris, Harrison S.
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Thrice Welcome from Poor Robin's Almanac. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 11, 2011.
Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in England in the 17th century. It ran until sometime in the 18th century.
It was originally a satirical publication, although over the years it became less humorous and more of a source for traditional homilies.
Poor Robin is a pseudonym whose original user is unknown. William Winstanley and Robert Herrick are both possible candidates. More works were published under this pseudonym in America in the 1800s.
At the End of the Feast

Anonymous
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of At the End of the Feast by Anonymous.
A traditional English Christmas Carol, first published in New Christmas Carols in 1642.
This poem was the Weekly Poetry Project for the week beginning December 25th 2011.
Song of the Chattahoochee

Sidney Lanier
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.
Ship of Earth

Sidney Lanier
But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and sweet, and most sympathetic helpfulness he met in the city of his adoption, and from friends elsewhere, but he could not command the time and leisure which might have lengthened his life and given him opportunity to write the music and the verse with which his soul was teeming. Yet short as was his literary life, and hindered though it were, its fruit will fill a large space in the garnering of the poetic art of our country. (Poems of Sidney Lanier - Memorial by William Hayes Ward)
Cup of Tea

James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect.

Riley's chief legacy was his influence in fostering the creation of a Midwestern cultural identity and his contributions to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature. Along with other writers of his era, he helped create a caricature of Midwesterners and formed a literary community that produced works rivaling the established eastern literati. There are many memorials dedicated to Riley, including the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.
Etiquette

W. S. Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.
Gilbert's creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, and numerous short stories, poems and lyrics, both comic and serious. After brief careers as a government clerk and a lawyer, Gilbert began to focus, in the 1860s, on writing light verse, including his Bab Ballads, short stories, theatre reviews and illustrations, often for Fun magazine.
White Flag

John Hay
John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was also an author and biographer and wrote poetry and other literature throughout much of his life.
Jungle Flower

Laurence Hope
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Jungle Flower by Laurence Hope.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 24, 2019.
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Laurence Hope is the pseudonym of English poet Adela Florence Nicolson.
Discouraging Model

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Discouraging Model by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 26, 2020.
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As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during his lifetime. He was honored with annual Riley Day celebrations around the United States and was regularly called on to perform readings at national civic events.
Wraith of Summertime

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Wraith of Summertime by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 18, 2020.
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Ah, the memories of summer past, at least Riley's memories.
Among the Rice Fields

Laurence Hope
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Among the Rice Fields by Laurence Hope..
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 16, 2020.
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Violet Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. (Wikipedia )
Ripest Peach

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Ripest Peach by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 12, 2020.
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James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".
Circus

Edwin Carty Ranck
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Circus by Edwin C Ranck.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 14, 2020.
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This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that "murder will out." Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded. From the Preface to Poems for Pale People, A Volume of Verse By Edwin C. Ranck.
Her Hair

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Her Hair by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 10, 2021.
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This Weekly poem was taken from Riley Love Lyrics by James Whitcomb Riley.
Once There Was Time

John Frederick Freeman
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Once There Was Time by John Frederick Freeman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 21, 2021.
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John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time.He was born in London and started as an office boy aged 13. He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare from 1907, who lobbied hard with Edward Marsh to get Freeman into the Georgian Poetry series; with eventual success. De la Mare's biographer Theresa Whistler describes him as "tall, gangling, ugly, solemn, punctilious". This poem is taken from POEMS NEW AND OLD By John Freeman (1920)
Woodland Halló

Robert Bloomfield
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Woodland Halló by Robert Bloomfield.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 21, 2021.
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Robert Bloomfield was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. One of his early duties, when he was sent to London to work as a shoemaker, was to read the papers aloud while the others in the workshop were working, and he became particularly interested in the poetry section of The London Magazine.
Declaration

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.
Harmonics

William Vaughn Moody
William Vaughn Moody was an American dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death). He taught English at Harvard and Radcliffe until 1895, when he went to Chicago where he was an instructor at the University of Chicago, and from 1901 to 1907 assistant professor of English and rhetoric.
Faded Pictures

Moody, William Vaughn
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2012.
"I really liked this one. It reminded me of Browning's monologues. Absolutely lovely...and dark at the same time." (Caprisha Page)
William Vaughn Moody was a United States dramatist and poet. Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death).
Forgiveness

Russell, George William
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Forgiveness by George William Russell. This was the weekly poetry project for June 7th, 2009.
Listening

John Frederick Freeman
Volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Listening by John Frederick Freeman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 20, 2022.
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The poet describes a pasture in the evening.
Hut

Laurence Hope
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Hut by Laurence Hope.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 27, 2022.
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This Weekly Poem is taken from Last Poems, Translations from the Book of Indian Love By Laurence Hope.
Unity

Violet Jacob
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Unity by Violet Jacob.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 27, 2022.
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Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets". he wrote most of her poetry in the 'Angus' dialect. (Wikipedia)
Little Mud-Sparrows

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Little Mud-Sparrows by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December, 4, 2011.

This poem is taken from CHRISTMAS IN LEGEND AND STORY; A Book for Boys and Girls, complied by Elva S. Smith, Carnegie Library Pittsburgh and Alice I. Hazeltine, Public Library St. Louis 1915. (from the book's frontispiece)
In The Dark

James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect.

Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he eventually earned successive jobs at Indiana newspaper publishers during the latter 1870s.

Riley became a bestselling author in the 1890s. His children's poems were compiled into a book and illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Titled the Rhymes of Childhood, the book was his most popular and sold millions of copies. As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during his own lifetime.
White Bird of Love

Joyce Kilmer
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of White Bird of Love by Joyce Kilmer.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 12, 2020.
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Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation.
If I knew What Poets Know

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 23 recordings of If I knew What Poets Know by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 5, 2020.
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Riley's chief legacy was his influence in fostering the creation of a Midwestern cultural identity and his contributions to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature. With other writers of his era, he helped create a caricature of Midwesterners and formed a literary community that produced works rivaling the established eastern literati. There are many memorials dedicated to Riley, including the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.
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