Poetry audiobooks

Les plus beaux poèmes de Baudelaire - Abridged

By: Baudelaire

Narrated by: various

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Baudelaire n'a jamais accepté le remariage de sa mère avec Aupick alors qu'il n'avait que 7 ans. Est-ce là la cause de son esprit rebelle ? Toujours est-il qu'il se fait exclure du lycée Louis-le-Grand, fermement décidé à mener une vie de dandy. Décision contrariée par son beau-père, qui le fait embarquer de force sur un paquebot en... Read more

Les plus beaux poèmes de Louis Aragon - Abridged

By: Louis Aragon

Narrated by: JeanLouis barrault

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Les 8 plus beaux poèmes de Louis Aragon dits par Jean-Louis Barrault : Un air embaumé, Poèmes de cape et d'épée, Les amants séparés, Richard II Quarante, Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux, Le paysan de Paris chante, Amour d'Elsa, Le cri du Butor. Louis Aragon est un poète, romancier, journaliste et essayiste français, né le 3 octobre 1897 à... Read more

Fables de La Fontaine en argot

By: Jean de la Fontaine

Narrated by: Gérard Gervais & Jean-Louis Morgan

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

" Tous les vieux schnocks de l'Académie devaient encore être endormis… " -Pierre Perret " Langue de la misère ", comme le disait Victor Hugo, langue des marginaux et des " mal vus " depuis le XIIIe siècle, l'argot a pour premier objectif d'exclure tout non-initié de la conversation. Ce langage détourné, multiforme, désinhibé, mutant, a pourtant ... Read more

Turns and Movies

By: Conrad Aiken

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Conrad Aiken was fascinated throughout his early work with the image of a tempestuous, romantic young man who tears himself away from his wife, his first love, and from a pastoral, peaceful life in a rural setting, to pursue what he hopes will be a richer, fuller, more rewarding life in a great city. In this book, Aiken explores this theme in... Read more

Donald Hall: Prose & Poetry

By: Donald Hall

Narrated by: Donald Hall

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal... Read more

Lord Byron

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The epitome of the Romantic literary hero, Lord Byron was as well-known in his time for the revolutionary panache with which he lived as for his extremely popular verse. “As a myth,” wrote Bertrand Russell, “his importance, especially on the continent, was enormous.” His many tempestuous relationships were the subject of scandal which only added... Read more

Earth Triumphant

By: Conrad Aiken

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Charnel Rose, Conrad Aiken takes the plunge into a deeply metaphysical and surrealistic world, capturing the essence of one aspect of quintessential humanity: how we create and pursue a deeply personal, intensely idealistic, physically and emotionally draining search for love, and how some of us turn away from real love when we do find it,... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.

Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or... Read more

Lettre à Adélia

By: Arold Pinder

Narrated by: Arold Pinder

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Femme de sa terre et terre faite femme tout à la fois. Les images, touchantes et neuves, pour chanter l'une et l'autre, Pinder les puise dans son inénarrable amour d'elles. Amour fondateur. Exaltant. Du lyrisme presque à l'état pur, enrichi, ô grâce, du ballet harmonique des mots. La poésie, cette fois encore, trouvera sa plénitude dans... Read more

The Mercy

By: Beverly Lewis

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop's foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother's death. His rebellion led to the "silencing" of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose's lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Peter Ackroyd & Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Ron Keith, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy...

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints... Read more

Love Songs

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet... Read more

Transfer

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life."— William Stafford
Dusk where is the name no one answered... Read more

Aux marches du palais

By: Albert Millaire

Narrated by: Albert Millaire

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Millaire considère la fréquentation des classiques comme toujours profitable et enrichissante, surtout si elle se fait auprès d'un grand nombre d'auteurs et de leurs oeuvres. C'est la raison qui l'a incité à concevoir et monter, en entier, un spectacle pour les faire revivre. Produit à partir d'un enregistrement en direct à la Chapelle... Read more

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

By: Harry Graham

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Graham was an English writer of light verse, popular fiction, and history. He is best remembered for his grotesque and humorous verses, which parody the children’s cautionary verses of his day. His most successful work was his series of hilariously cruel Ruthless Rhymes, first published in 1898 under the pseudonym Col. D. Streamer. Billy,... Read more

Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda!

By: Paquito D'Rivera

Narrated by: Paquito D'Rivera

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067... Read more

The Man from Snowy River and Other Poems

By: Banjo Paterson

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventure from the Australian Outback. Cowboy style poetry from Australia's Banjo Paterson. Includes the poems: "The Man from Snowy River:, "Old Pardon", "Clancy", and "Conroy's Gap". Read more

Poems from the Heart

By: HM, HRH Laxmiben Hirani

Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems From The Heart, will change your life, it is not like any other poetry book that you have read, that has been on the book shelves before. It has the ability to make you think of life in general, no matter what situation one may be in. As it applies for the people of today and in the future, as I have made it so, that my poetry continues... Read more

Flame and Shadow

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sara Teasdale - winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Poetry Society of America prize, and other awards - lived for love and beauty and died by her own hand. Her poetry shows vividly what an intensely passionate woman she was, so much so that in some of her poetry she speaks of the impact of beauty in terms of physical pain, and the impact of love in... Read more

W. B. Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his... Read more

The Aeneid

By: Virgil

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aenas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rome. A unique hero, Aenas struggles and fights not for personal gain but for a civilization that will exist in the far future. Caught between passion and fate, his vision would change the course of the Western world.Virgil,... Read more

She Walks in Beauty

By: author

Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Jane Alexander, John Bedford ...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life.

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating... Read more

Smoke and Steel

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging. The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere... Read more

Cornhuskers

By: Carl Sandburg

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or... Read more