Poetry audiobooks

The Poetry of A. E. Housman - Abridged

By: A. E. Housman

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the foremost classicists of his age this collection of Housman's poetry is read by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, C. Day Lewis, Robert Donat and David Moore Read more

Poems of Passion - Abridged

By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's best-known work Poems of Passion read here by Emma Topping. Read more

The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Abridged

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beatrice Lillie, Boris Karloff and Cyril Ritchard amongst others read Lewis Carroll's finest poetry including Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark and The Mock Turtle's Song Read more

The Poetry of John Milton

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Stephen Murray

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Murray and Hilton Edwards read a collection of Milton's finest work. Read more

Poems for Funerals

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of beautiful poetry for funeral services or ceremonies. Including Leisure by W.H. Davies, If by Rudyard Kipling and Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott-Holland. Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays about Al-Mustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. It is one of the most popular set of poems of all time. Read more

Mother's Whispers

By: Erlor E. Dean

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother's Whispers had its poetic impetus in the beautiful island of Bermuda. With the ocean as its surroundings, the poem called "The Ocean", was the first poetic piece penned for the book. Another poem entitled, "A Poem Saluting Mothers", is self-explanatory and is attributed to her mother's total support of her writing. This book infuses... Read more

The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of The Poetry of Lord Byron is focused on work in which Byron dealt with certain themes that recurred throughout his career, especially personal integrity in the search for freedom and for love, and the suffering that can go with that search. The Prisoner of Chillon, the keynote piece of this volume, is one of Byron’s most riveting... Read more

Hebrew Melodies and Other Poems

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of Lord Byron’s poetry contains four sets of his poems, starting with his famous book of poetry, Hebrew Melodies, and continuing with the Poems of the Separation, poetry he wrote in the period 1816-1823, his Jeux d’Esprit, and a group of poems written in homage to the great poets of Italy. Hebrew Melodies is a collection of lyrics... Read more

All for Mj

By: Barbara Hagen

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by an interview with the late great Michael Jackson, Barbara Hagen wanted to give back to the entertainer the love that her favorite singer, dancer, and performer gave to the world through the use of his God given talents. Included in this book are poems which, in one way or another, express the love and admiration that the author has... Read more

Стрихотворения и Поэмы

By: Mihail Lermontov

Narrated by: Aleksandr Horlin

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

В стихотворном творчестве М.Ю. Лермонтова, как раннем , так и более зрелом , преобладают темы лирического и философского размышления о жизни и глубокий самоанализ, тонкий психологизм, обостренное чувствование. Перед нами предстает обнаженная душа поэта, остро переживающего жизненные коллизии. В поэмах Лермонтова выделяются две тематические... Read more

Turkish Tales

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We hope you will enjoy these fine, old-fashioned stories that Lord Byron wrote in an old-fashioned way. He tells these tales in rhyming verse and heroic couplets, and he makes them dashing, romantic, and even melodramatic in a way that has become foreign to us with the passing of time. These are tales of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish empire... Read more

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cantos III and IV, Byron comes to the high point of his work and to clear and definite mastery of his art as a poet. Though he himself doubts his powers - he says his visions no longer swim so palpably before his eyes as once they did - his visions are far more palpable to us, expressed as they are with the full... Read more

Occasional Pieces

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of the Freshwater Seas Lord Byron set consists of 54 poems written during the years 1809-1816. Many were included in various editions of longer works, particularly the 1812 and later editions of Childe Harold; others were published in various newspapers and periodicals, especially the Morning Chronicle; a few were not published until... Read more

Ruin the Sacred Truths

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Mort Crim

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by... Read more

The Phoenix and the Turtle / The Passionate Pilgrim

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding,... Read more

Give Us Liberty

By: Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the Ancient Mariner.... Read more

Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own... Read more

In mir erwacht das Tier

By: F. W. Bernstein

Narrated by: F.W. Bernstein

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Damen und Herren, Sie haben bestellt / die besten Gedichte der ganzen Welt. / Hier kriegen Sie, wenn's beliebt, / die süßeste, wildeste Lyrik wo gibt." F.W. Bernstein ist niemand, der leere Versprechungen macht, und deshalb gilt dieses Motto, mit dem er sein epochales Werk "Die Gedichte" im letzten Herbst eröffnete, auch für diese CD. Süße und... Read more

Das große IchundDu

By: Wiglaf Droste

Narrated by: Wiglaf Droste

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dieses lehren uns die Schlichten: / Freundlich lächeln. Weiterdichten", schrieb Wiglaf Droste, nachdem er wieder einmal Unbill mit der Chefsorte Mensch hatte. Und das tut Droste denn auch: gut gelaunt weiterdichten. Die Anlässe für seine Verse sind mannigfaltig wie das Leben selbst. Manchmal reicht schon ein klangvoller Halbsatz in einer... Read more

Der Tag, an dem ich allen Glück wünschte

By: Franz Dobler

Narrated by: Franz Dobler

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ich mag das Holz / und die Arbeit die es macht / Von mir aus können sie / den ganzen Wald umlegen / und mir herbringen / Ich steh da / mit dem Beil in der Hand." Franz Doblers Westerngedichte sind Dauerbrenner. Wer einzelne schon mal auf Lesungen gehört hat, kann jetzt endlich auf die komplette Sammlung zurückgreifen. Die Daltons kommen darin... Read more

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the book that made Lord Byron (George Gordon) famous. He was a published and a known poet, but until this book took the English-speaking world by storm in 1812, he was not a famous poet. Byron was, however, a celebrity. As an aristocrat whose personal life was considered shockingly scandalous - and even today would be good stuff for... Read more

Aristotle: On Poetry

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first fully intact philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, the respected Greek sage offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (which the Greeks understood to literally mean "making"), examining its "first principles" and identifying its genres and... Read more