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Title: Poème du Mois - 004 L'albatros

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Albatros ont été décrits comme "le plus légendaire de tous les oiseaux". Un albatros est un emblème central à La Rime du vieux marin de Samuel Taylor Coleridge, un albatros en captivité est également une métaphore de la poète maudit dans un poème de Charles Baudelaire. C'est à partir du poème de Coleridge que l'utilisation d'albatros comme une métaphore est tirée, quelqu'un avec un fardeau ou un obstacle, dit-on "un albatros autour du cou", la peine infligée dans le poème pour le navigateur qui a tué l'albatros. En partie à cause du poème, il ya un mythe largement répandu que (tous) les marins crois qu'il désastreuses de tirer ou de nuire à un albatros, en vérité, les marins régulièrement tués pour les manger, par exemple, tel que rapporté par James Cook en 1772. D'autre part, il a été rapporté que les marins capturés les oiseaux, mais soi-disant laisser à nouveau libre, la raison possible est que les albatros ont été souvent considérés comme les âmes des marins perdus, de sorte que les tuer aurait été considéré comme portant malheur.

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Title: Glee for Winter

Author: Alfred Domett

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Glee for Winter by Alfred Domett, published in "A Victorian Anthology" in 1895. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 23rd, 2007.

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Title: Contentment

Author: Eugene Field

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.

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Title: Poème du Mois - 002 Fiez vous y !

Author: Charles D' Orléans

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Chaque mois, nous choisissons un poème qui est enregistré par un maximum de librivoxeurs !

Charles d'Orléans, né à Paris le 24 novembre 1394 et mort à Amboise le 5 janvier 1465, duc d'Orléans, est un prince français, connu surtout pour son uvre poétique réalisée lors de sa longue captivité anglaise. Il est le fils de Louis Ier, duc d'Orléans, frère du roi de France Charles VI, et de Valentine Visconti fille du duc de Milan. (Wikipedia)

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Title: Old Man and the Ass

Author: Jean De La Fontaine

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013.

Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.

According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Title: Emancipation Proclamation

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Narrator: John Greenman

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states. Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 off-year elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." - Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman

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Title: When We Two Parted

Author: Lord Byron George Gordon

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006.

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Title: I see His Blood upon the Rose

Author: Joseph Mary Plunkett

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of I see His Blood upon the Rose by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 9th, 2008.

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Title: Flag and the Faithful

Author: William J. Lampton

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013.

William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.)

He launched his jounalist carreer in 1877 by starting the Ashland (Kentucky) Weekly Review, with his father's money. Lampton wrote several book, as well as humorous poems he called 'yawps'. These were printed in the New York Sun and published in Yawps and Other Things ca. 1900. (Summary taken from Wikipedia and the Mark Twain Project)

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Title: Sonnet 028

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Sonnet 28 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 26th, 2007.