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This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2020.

Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes in 1920. Holmes was hopeful. Technology had come a long way since 1862, when balloonist James Glaisher made a daring ascent to 37,000 feet above the earth and passed out for lack of oxygen [Travels in the Air]. Glaisher had to best-guess the altitude to which his balloon had climbed while he was unconscious. Technology requires a rational system of accurate measurement [A Metric America]. Societies, however, are not rational. Some past eras were filled ...

The last of ten volumes compilation of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This volume collects excerpts and quotations from famous poems, grouped under diverse topics. - Summary by Sonia

This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during November 2023.

This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2022.

Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, and introduced by a note from her uncle, Rev. Dr. J.I.T. Coolidge. The hymns are excellently chosen, and the volume will be brought out in tasteful style. It will commend itself to the favor of all Episcopalians, and to the devout in all denominations, to whom Easter is not a mere churchly date but a day of deep and glad significance. – The Publisher’s Weekly, March 18th, 1876.

This is a collection of 42 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2022.

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside." With these words, Kate Chopin decries the "crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath” that power the “mad pace" of everyday life. Broadway: the Backbone of New York presents a more up-beat view of city life. Reflections on difficult times are the substance of several volume 073 readings (The Influenza Epidemic of 1918; Plague in Ireland in the Tudor Period; Soren Kierkegaard in his Life and Literature; and Remarks to Madame Curie); while...

This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2021.

This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during June 2025.

This is a collection of 66 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2021.

"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on relations between the sexes in 1883. Other reader-chosen nonfiction selections in volume 093 see women as witches (Salem Witchcraft), as cooks (Domestic French Cookery; Food in Little Italy), as medical pioneers (Cleora Augusta Seaman, M.D.), and as waffling adolescents (Sweet Seventeen). Political, religious, and cultural conflict are illustrated in questions regarding slavery in the Virginia colony, the Papal Bulls of 1493, the battle of Grampian Hills, a biography of...

This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018.

This is a collection of 45 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2017.

This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of view, especial value as a faithful record of the feeling, usages, and modes of life of the rural population,—had been almost wholly passed over amongst the antiquarian revivals which constitute one of the distinguishing features of the present age. While attention was successfully drawn to other forms of our early poetry, this peasant minstrelsy was scarcely touched, and might...

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017.

This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2020.

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2022.

This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during September 2025.

This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021.