Poetry audiobooks

Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert L Stevenson

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When I am grown to man’s estate. I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys. Not to meddle with my toys. Thus reads the whimsical, “Looking Forward,” of this delightful collection. From the sweetness of “Land of Nod,” to the imaginative dreams of “Pirate Story” and “Travels,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved poems... Read more

If

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved poem from the great Rudyard Kipling. If you can follow these precepts, you will indeed be a man, my son. Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader, Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles's close friend Patroclus,... Read more

Emily Dickinson: poesie: 24 poesie scelte

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Una poetessa dell’oltre visto dall’interno del giardino da cui non usciva mai. La voglia di una fede mai realizzatae la lucidità della contemplazione. Vi accompagnerà come un battito d’ali di farfalla.Accompagnata dalle tre musiche preferite della poetessa americana. Read more

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicidal... Read more

The Satires

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, the fourth volume of this series, we hear the poetry in which Byron began to make his mark on the world. Though his major breakthrough with Childe Harold is yet to come, his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was a definite hit in its time, establishing Byron as a known poet and ensuring that his reputation as a literary bad-boy was off... Read more

Odissea

By: Omero

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

La traduzione di Ettore Romagnoli rende il testo molto più comprensibile delle altre versioni. Completano i 24 canti anche un lungo comento del traduttore. Read more

Divina Commedia,La

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Le tre cantiche inì un unico audiolibro, precedute da riassunti e seguiti da note storiche esplicative del testo. Read more

POEMAS ENCONTRASTE - Abridged

By: Leonor de Aquitania, José Fernando Dicenta, Efr...

Narrated by: Jesús Isarrarás Gutiérrez & Jaime Hernández

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jesús Isarraras es uno de los mejores declamadores de México. A través de sus Poemas en Contraste nos acerca con alta sensibilidad a poetas que igual nos mueven al amor, a la denuncia social, a la pasión, a la ternura y también, por supuesto, a la risa. Ahí está Borges, Cardenal, Efraín Huerta, haciendo el contraste con Chava Flores y Luis M.... Read more

Eneide

By: Virgilio

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

L’Eneide non è un semplice poema epico ma il quadro di un passaggio fra il vecchio mondo pagano e il nuovo mondo cristiano (nondimentichiamoci infatti che Virgilio è stato la guida di Dante nella Commedia). Solo un poeta dalla ricca vita interiore come Virgilio, e dal potere evocativo dei suoi versi poteva farsi l’interprete di questo... Read more

Like This

By: Coleman Barks & Jalaluddin Rumi

Narrated by: Coleman Barks

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Through rendering of Rumi’s poems and stories, Coleman Barks has established himself as perhaps the leading voice for Rumi’s work. His warm and sensitive reading combines with the world-renowned musicianship of Hamza El Din and Steve Coughlin to create an enthralling listening experience.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Early Poems

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As in the first two volumes of this series, our interest in these poems is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. In these poems, mostly written in the years just before Byron left England to tour in Europe, it is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic... Read more

Alcyone: dodici liriche scelte

By: Gabriele D’Annunzio

Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dodici liriche scelte da "Alcyone": Lungo L'Affrico, La sera fiesolana, Beatitudine, La pioggia nel pineto, I tributarii, Meriggio, L'onda, Le ore marine, I pastori, Il novilunio, Il commiato. Musica di Chopin. Read more

The Song of Roland

By: unknown

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic epic revolves around the battle between the Franks and the Moors in 778.Though he has grown up in poverty in a cave in Italy, Roland is in fact descended from great heroes of old. Since his youth, his mother has taught him that someday he will be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of his uncle,... Read more

Fugitive Pieces

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

George Gordon, later Lord Byron, published Fugitive Pieces in 1806 when he was only 18 years old. It was printed, but Byron's friends - particularly Reverend Thomas Beecher - advised him that it contained poems that were scandalously amorous, particularly the poem To Mary. Byron suppressed it by having all the copies destroyed - or so he... Read more

Hours of Idleness

By: Lord Byron

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For those who love Byron’s poetry, the value of this work is not so much the poetry itself as the promise of what is to come. It is fascinating to see how his power as a poet is constantly growing and to see how his enormously romantic heart and soul goes about fashioning itself.Though a young man, he often writes as if he were old, musing on... Read more

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By: Omar Khayyam & Edward FitzGerald

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald is one of our best-loved books of poetry - and for good reason. Cynical, self-deprecating, witty, mystical, in love with wine and beauty while aware of life and death, Omar's poems put many thoughts we have all had into words we can all enjoy.
Fitzgerald first published... Read more

Sonnets from the Portuguese

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly accaimed collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. Read by Emma Topping and Katharine Cornell Read more

Famous Poetry Stories in Tang and Song Dynasty (Ci Poetry of The Song Dynasty Part)

By: Gang Sun

Narrated by: Gang Sun

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Teenagers often struggle to understand the poetic style and creative motives of poets, making it difficult for them to grasp the allusions and artistic conception in poetry, which in turn diminishes their interest in classical poetry. The "Stories of Poems by Famous Tang and Song Dynasty Poets" series, specifically the "Tang Poetry" section,... Read more

The Poetry of Emily Brontë

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Whilst best remembered as the author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë was also a celebrated poet. Here, Emma Topping reads her finest poetry. Read more

Les contemplations

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes & Michael Lonsdale

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo est un recueil de poésies écrites entre 1834 et 1855. Regroupés en deux tomes, ces poèmes se divisent entre Autrefois et Aujourd'hui, une période heureuse où l'auteur contemplait la richesse de l'amour et de la nature, et des jours plus sombres frappés par le deuil de sa fille Léopoldine. Michaêl Lonsdale et... Read more

Here In Harlem

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: Muhammad Cunningham, Michael Early, Arthur Fren...

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-four poems, all in different voices, written by one outstanding author. Residents of a fictional Harlem community, from motorman to teacher, from party girl to live-in maid, to jazz artist, a deacon, students, veterans and more- all embodied by thirteen remarkable narrators. Original musical recordings from the likes of Duke Ellington,... Read more

Martín Fierro - Abridged

By: Jose Hernandez

Narrated by: Angel Calderon

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Martín Fierro es un poema épico line 2316 por el escritor argentino José Hernández. El poema fue publicado originalmente en dos partes: El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) y La Vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879). El poema suministrado un vínculo histórico con la contribución de los gauchos para el desarrollo nacional de la Argentina, por el gaucho había... Read more

The Frogs and Toads All Sang

By: Arnold Lobel

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes a brand-new collection of rhyming stories about frogs and toads. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, The Frogs and Toads All Sang has the same warmth, compassion, and humor that is found in his best-loved work. Brimming with sweet silliness, this new book reminds us why Arnold... Read more