Free Poetry Audiobooks from Librivox

Volunteer Readings of Fire and Ice

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

100 Verses from Old Japan

In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (often known simply as the Hyakunin Isshu), which means “A Hundred Poems by A Hundred Poets” (literally “A hundred people, one poem [each]”).

This collection of a hundred poems is known to almost all Japanese, and over the years it has been translated by many different people. One of the early translators of the collection was William Porter. His translation, first published in 1909, was titled “A Hundred Verses from Old Japan”. (Summary by Kevin Steinbach)

20 Public Domain Poems

Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns

Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave by Thomas Hardy

A-Sitting on a Gate by Lewis Carroll

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Casey At The Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

A Prayer for my Daughter by William Butler Yeats

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

and many more..