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Contentment

Eugene Field
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.
Fold

Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians', the Zulus', the Boxer Rebellion, and the Muslim revolt led by Muhammad Ahmed in the Sudan), many European scholars, writers, and artists, began to question Europe's colonial imperialism. This led the Meynells and others in their circle to speak out for the oppressed. Alice Meynell was a vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, founded by Cicely Hamilton and active 1908–19.
Welcome and Farewell

George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.

In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" His songs in particular were popular enough that Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia promised Morris $50, sight unseen, for any work he wanted to publish in the periodical.
Miniature

George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" Lines from the poem are often quoted by environmentalists.
Will Nobody Marry Me?

George Pope Morris
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Will Nobody Marry Me? by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 3, 2011.

In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" His songs in particular were popular enough that Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia promised Morris $50, sight unseen, for any work he wanted to publish in the periodical.
With Two Spoons For Two Spoons

Eugene Field
Volunteers bring you nine readings of With Two Spoons For Two Spoons, by Eugene Field. This was the weekly poem for the week of December 7, 2014.
Main-Truck; Or, A Leap for Life

George Pope Morris
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Main-Truck; Or, A Leap for Life by George P. Morris.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 27, 2022.
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A Nautical Ballad.[Founded upon a well-known tale from the pen of the late William Leggett, Esq.]
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Rainbow

Richard le Gallienne
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Rainbow by Richard Le Gallienne.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 7, 2021.
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In 2016 an exhibition on the life and works of Richard Le Gallienne was held at the central library in his home city of Liverpool, England. Entitled "Richard Le Gallienne: Liverpool's Wild(e) Poet", it featured his affair with Oscar Wilde, his famous actress daughter Eva Le Gallienne and his personal ties to the city. The exhibition ran for six weeks between August and October 2016, and a talk about him was held at the Victorian Literary Symposium during Liverpool's Literary festival the same year.
Faith

Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
Volunteers bring you 28 recordings of Faith by Fanny Kemble.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 16, 2022.
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Fanny Kemble was a British actress who also found time to be a popular author of poetry, plays, travelogues, eleven volumes of memoirs, and more. She was an abolitionist after having been married for 14 years to a wealthy American plantation owner. This poem expresses the desire for trust over cynicism.
In Remembrance

Arthur Macy
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In Remembrance by Arthur Macy.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 7, 2021.
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A tribute to friends both past and present, this poem is taken from Poems by Arthur Macy (1905)
September

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you ten readings of September by Madison Cawein. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 21st, 2014.
Spring (Barber)

Margaret Fairless Barber
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Spring by "Michael Fairless" (pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber). This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 7th, 2010.
Time and Death and Love

Madison Cawein
Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". This Weekly poem was published in his book "Shapes and Shadows". (1898)
Spring (Barber version 2)

Margaret Fairless Barber
Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic.
The poem is taken from her book, The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse.
Mrs. Mulligatawny

Arthur Macy
Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from the Indians, paid them fairly for it, treated them with justice, and lived on friendly terms with them. In many ways Arthur Macy showed that he was a Nantucketer and, at least by descent, a Quaker. He often used phrases peculiar to our island in the sea, and was given, in conversation at least, to similes which smacked of salt water. Almost the last time I saw him he said, "I'm coming round soon for a good long gam."
Spring Song of the Swallow

Marietta Holley
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! - Summary by Rachel
Bit of Color

Arthur Macy
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Bit of Color by Arthur Macy.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 23, 2020.
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Our Poet paints a colorful picture of Paris in 1896.
Letter

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Letter by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6, 2020.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates". ( Wikipedia)
Summer

Marietta Holley
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Summer by Marietta Holley..
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 13, 2020.
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Another tribute to summer.
Christmas at Church

Hattie Howard
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Christmas at Church by Hattie Howard.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 2, 2018.
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This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Poems by Hattie Howard, Pub 1902 (David Lawrence )
Wet Day

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019.
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This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!) taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume V, Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field.
Go Plant A Tree

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. 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.
Five Senses

Arthur Macy
Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from the Indians, paid them fairly for it, treated them with justice, and lived on friendly terms with them. In many ways Arthur Macy showed that he was a Nantucketer and, at least by descent, a Quaker. He often used phrases peculiar to our island in the sea, and was given, in conversation at least, to similes which smacked of salt water. Almost the last time I saw him he said, "I'm coming round soon for a good long gam."

Arthur Macy's view of life was certainly broad and generous, with a philosophic flavor. (from the Introduction (by William Alfred Hovey) to POEMS BY ARTHUR MACY (1905))
American Girl

Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw
Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 1856-1905 and published some works including Soldier Songs and Love Songs, 1898, from which our Fortnightly Poem is taken. (David Lawrence)
Dead Joke and The Funny Man

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. As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during his own 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.
Niagara

John Campbell
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He is now remembered primarily for the place names bestowed on Canadian geography in honour of his wife. For ten years before coming to Canada. Lorne traveled throughout North and Central America, writing travel literature and poetry.
Tobogganing

Hattie Howard
"This author's verse shows a hearty, wholesome, human spirit, sometimes overflowing into downright fun, and a straightforward directness always. It is a pleasant book, sure to be welcomed by all." (EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF A FORMER VOLUME.)
Easy Knowledge

Arthur Macy
Arthur Macy did not consider his work of sufficiently high poetic standard to be published. Every one praised his choice of words, his wonderful facility in rhyme, the perfection of his metre, and the daintiness and delicacy of his verse. "All right," he would say, "but that is not Poetry with a big P, and that is the only kind that should be published. And there is mighty little of it." (from the introduction to Poems by Arthur Macy; written by William Alfred Hovey, June 7, 1905)
Wish

Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector.
Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a two year old letter from Eliza, carefully “treasured up” by him in his breast pocket when assassinated.
Wind Of Spring

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Wind of Spring by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 25, 2021.
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Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This LibriVox Weekly Poem is taken from Poems by Madison Cawein (1911).
Climber's Dream

Edward Woodley Bowling
Edward Woodley Bowling was apparently a rector at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England in the late 1800's, this poem is taken from Sagittulae, Random Verses.
In this book's introduction he writes:
"The general reader will probably think that some apology is due to him from me for publishing verses of so crude and trivial a character.I can only say that the smallest of bows should sometimes be unstrung, and that if my little arrows are flimsy and light they will, I trust, wound no one."
To the Gnat

Samuel Rogers
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of To The Gnat by Samuel Rogers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2013.

Some comments from our readers.. "It might seem a tad mellow dramatic, but if you live in the country as I do, this might just resonate. Here it is the mosquito that presents as my mortal enemy, and if it infiltrates my room at night, there is no sleeping until it has been vanquished. (Arielph)
"Coming from Scotland as I do where we have the dreaded Midgie, which feels like it has the teeth of a Doberman, I can sympathize with the poet on his anticipation of a sleepless night." (RMac01)
"with midgies to the left of me, midgies to the right of me, I feel for Samuel Rogers!" (jannie)
Window on the Hill

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky".
After Long Grief

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of After Long Grief by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 22, 2012.

Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky".
On A Tear

Samuel Rogers
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of On A Tear By Samuel Rogers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 12, 2022.
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Our poet reflects on the magical mysteries of a woman's tears. (David Lawrence)
Old Roller Towel, The

Taylor, Bert Leston
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Old Roller Towel by Bert Leston Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 27, 2011.
Hallowe'en

Virna Sheard
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Hallowe'en by Virna Sheard.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 20, 2019.
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A tribute to Hallowe'en by Canadian poetess Virna Sheard.
April

Virna Sheard
This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913)
When Christmas Comes

Virna Sheard
Virna Stanton was born in Cobourg, Ontario, the daughter of Elizabeth Butler Stanton and Eldridge Stanton, a photographer. Her brother Eldridge Stanton Jr. and his wife both died at Niagara Falls, in the Ice Bridge Disaster of 1912. She published both novels and poetry collections during her life. Her papers were destroyed by her family after her death, apparently because they disapproved of her literary work.
Light of Stars

William Henry Giles Kingston
William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. He was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But from 1850, his chief occupation was writing books for boys, or editing boys' annuals and weekly periodicals. He started the Union Jack, a paper for boys, only a few months before his death. His stories number more than a hundred.
Thanksgiving

Kate Seymour MacLean
A tribute to the autumn season, taken from THE COMING OF THE PRINCESS, AND OTHER POEMS (1881)
Looking Back

John Hartley
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Looking Back by John Hartley.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 5, 2020..
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John Hartley was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Two Windows

Kate Seymour MacLean
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Two Windows by Kate Seymour MacLean.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9, 2021.
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Kate Seymour was born in America and moved to Canada upon her marriage. She was a well-known poet in her day, published in Canadian and American periodicals. She became a strong advocate of the "Canada First" movement. She died in Toronto at the age of 86.
Rain

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Rain by Madison Julius Cawein.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 27, 2020.
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Cawein gives us a graphic description of a field before, during, and after a rainstorm.
Night and Morning

Charles Sangster
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Night and Morning by Charles Sangster.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 1, 2020.
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Charles Sangster was a Canadian poet. He was the first poet to write poetry which was substantially about Canadian subjects. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls him "the best of the pre-confederation poets.
To The Next Christmas

T. W. H. Crosland
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. Thomas was a humanitarian who frequently wrote in his poems about the impoverished and sick and unemployed, especially caring about returned soldiers in the First World War.
To The Common Golfer

T. W. H. Crosland
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty.
To A Hotel Keeper

T. W. H. Crosland
We have all had mysterious charges added on to our hotel bills.
Churchyard by the Sea

Jessie C. Howden
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Churchyard by the Sea by Jesse C. Howden.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 18, 2021.
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Mrs. Jesse Howden was a Scottish Poet. Some of her work was featured in the Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art. This poem is taken from the No. 8.—Vol. I., Saturday, February 23, 1884 issue.
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