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Old Santeclaus
by Clement Clarke Moore

Publication date 2013-12-15
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry,
LibriVox recording of TOld Santeclaus by Clement Clarke Moore.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 1, 2013.

Read in English by Claudia Salto; CaprishaPage; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garth Burton; Glenn O'Brien; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia Niedermaier; ravenotation.

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". This poem seems to be a 'moral' version of "The NIght Before Christmas".

old santa claus by clement clark moore read for librivox.org by capricia page old santa claus with much delight his reindeer drives this frosty night or chimney tops and tracks of snow to bring his yearly gifts to you the steady friend a virtuous youth the friend of duty and of truth each christmas eve he joins to come where love and peace have made their home through many houses he has been and various beds and stalking seen some white as snow and neatly mended others that seemed for pigs intended where i found good boys or girls that hated quarrels strife and noise i left an apple or a tart or wooden gun or painted cart to some i gave a pretty doll to some a peg top or a ball no crackers cannons squibs or rockets to blow their eyes up or their pockets no drums to stun their mother's ears nor swords to make their sisters fear but pretty books to store their mind with knowledge of each various kind but where i found the children naughty in manners rude in tempers haughty thankfuls to parents liars swearers boxers or cheats or base tail bearers i left a long black berchen rod such as the dread command of god directs a parent's hand to use when virtue's path his sons refuse

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Old Santeclaus
by Clement Clarke Moore

Publication date 2013-12-15
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry,
LibriVox recording of TOld Santeclaus by Clement Clarke Moore.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 1, 2013.

Read in English by Claudia Salto; CaprishaPage; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garth Burton; Glenn O'Brien; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia Niedermaier; ravenotation.

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". This poem seems to be a 'moral' version of "The NIght Before Christmas".

old santa claus by clement clark moore read for librivox.org by capricia page old santa claus with much delight his reindeer drives this frosty night or chimney tops and tracks of snow to bring his yearly gifts to you the steady friend a virtuous youth the friend of duty and of truth each christmas eve he joins to come where love and peace have made their home through many houses he has been and various beds and stalking seen some white as snow and neatly mended others that seemed for pigs intended where i found good boys or girls that hated quarrels strife and noise i left an apple or a tart or wooden gun or painted cart to some i gave a pretty doll to some a peg top or a ball no crackers cannons squibs or rockets to blow their eyes up or their pockets no drums to stun their mother's ears nor swords to make their sisters fear but pretty books to store their mind with knowledge of each various kind but where i found the children naughty in manners rude in tempers haughty thankfuls to parents liars swearers boxers or cheats or base tail bearers i left a long black berchen rod such as the dread command of god directs a parent's hand to use when virtue's path his sons refuse

and a poem this recording is in the public domain

True Culture
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Publication date 2012-12-23
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, advice, instruction, philosophy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death. ( Summary from Wikipedia )
true culture by ella wheeler wilcox read for libertybox.org by algae pug perth western australia the highest culture is to speak no ill the best reformer is the man whose eyes are quick to see all beauty and all worth and by his own discreet well-ordered life alone reproves the erring when thy gaze turns in on thine own soul be most severe but when it falls upon a fellow man let kindliness control it and refrain from that belittling censure that springs forth from common lips like weeds from marshy soil end of poem this recording is in the public domain

True Culture
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Publication date 2012-12-23
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, advice, instruction, philosophy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was " Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death. ( Summary from Wikipedia )
true culture by ella wheeler wilcox read for libertybox.org by algae pug perth western australia the highest culture is to speak no ill the best reformer is the man whose eyes are quick to see all beauty and all worth and by his own discreet well-ordered life alone reproves the erring when thy gaze turns in on thine own soul be most severe but when it falls upon a fellow man let kindliness control it and refrain from that belittling censure that springs forth from common lips like weeds from marshy soil end of poem this recording is in the public domain

Forgiveness
by John Greenleaf Whittier

Publication date 2013-06-09
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, advice, instruction, philosophy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Forgiveness by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 2, 2013. What some of our readers thought..."The whole poem consists of just a single sentence, but a very complex one, loaded with both independent and subordinate clauses and participial phrases... Following his admirable example of gentle tolerance, I forgive his dangling participles." (Leonard Wilson); "Kudos to the poet for writing about forgiveness and mortality in a graveyard without letting any gods elbow in!" (Jason Mills) (Summary by David Lawrence)
forgiveness by john greenleaf whittier read for libbyrocks.org by algae pug perth western australia my heart was heavy for its trust had been abused its kindness answered with foul wrong so turning gloomily from my fellow men one summer sabbath day i strolled along the green mounds of the village burial place where pondering how old human love and hate find one sad level and how soon or late wronged and wrongdoer each with meekend face and cold hands folded over a still heart past the green threshold of our common grave whether all footsteps tend whence none depart ward for myself and pitying my race our common sorrow like a mighty wave swept all my pride away and trembling i forgave end of poem this recording is in the public domain

Forgiveness
by John Greenleaf Whittier

Publication date 2013-06-09
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, advice, instruction, philosophy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Forgiveness by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 2, 2013. What some of our readers thought..."The whole poem consists of just a single sentence, but a very complex one, loaded with both independent and subordinate clauses and participial phrases... Following his admirable example of gentle tolerance, I forgive his dangling participles." (Leonard Wilson); "Kudos to the poet for writing about forgiveness and mortality in a graveyard without letting any gods elbow in!" (Jason Mills) (Summary by David Lawrence)
forgiveness by john greenleaf whittier read for libbyrocks.org by algae pug perth western australia my heart was heavy for its trust had been abused its kindness answered with foul wrong so turning gloomily from my fellow men one summer sabbath day i strolled along the green mounds of the village burial place where pondering how old human love and hate find one sad level and how soon or late wronged and wrongdoer each with meekend face and cold hands folded over a still heart past the green threshold of our common grave whether all footsteps tend whence none depart ward for myself and pitying my race our common sorrow like a mighty wave swept all my pride away and trembling i forgave end of poem this recording is in the public domain

Slovenly Betsy
by Heinrich Hoffmann

Publication date 2013-05-27
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, advice, animals, children, fiction, humor, instruction, nature, satire, teen/young adult, tragedy
LibriVox recording of Slovenly Betsy by Heinrich Hoffmann. Hienrich Hoffman was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collection of these printed. The stories were not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries. This American version contains a few of the stories from the original German "Struwwelpeter" publication.
chapter 1 of slovenly betsy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by florence short slovenly betsy by heinrich hoffman chapter one slovenly betsy betsy would never wash herself when from her bed she rose but just as quickly as she could she hurried on her clothes to keep her clothes all nice and clean miss betsy took no pains in holes her stockings always were her dress is filled with stains sometimes she went out day after day and never combed her hair while little feathers from her bed stuck on it here and there the school boys when they betsy saw would point her out and cry oh betsy what a sight you are oh slovenly betsy fi one rainy day her parents went some pleasant friends to meet they took betsy along with them all dressed so clean and neat nice little boys and girls were there with whom our betsy played until of playing she grew tired into the garden straight out in the rain she danced a while but was not long before flat down she tumbled in the mud and her best clothes she tore oh what a sight she was indeed when in the room she came the guests all loudly laughed at her and she almost died with shame she turned and to her home she ran and then as here you see she washed her clothes and since has been as neat as she could be end of chapter one

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Slovenly Betsy
by Heinrich Hoffmann

Publication date 2013-05-27
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, literature, audiobook, advice, animals, children, fiction, humor, instruction, nature, satire, teen/young adult, tragedy
LibriVox recording of Slovenly Betsy by Heinrich Hoffmann. Hienrich Hoffman was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collection of these printed. The stories were not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries. This American version contains a few of the stories from the original German "Struwwelpeter" publication.
chapter 1 of slovenly betsy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by florence short slovenly betsy by heinrich hoffman chapter one slovenly betsy betsy would never wash herself when from her bed she rose but just as quickly as she could she hurried on her clothes to keep her clothes all nice and clean miss betsy took no pains in holes her stockings always were her dress is filled with stains sometimes she went out day after day and never combed her hair while little feathers from her bed stuck on it here and there the school boys when they betsy saw would point her out and cry oh betsy what a sight you are oh slovenly betsy fi one rainy day her parents went some pleasant friends to meet they took betsy along with them all dressed so clean and neat nice little boys and girls were there with whom our betsy played until of playing she grew tired into the garden straight out in the rain she danced a while but was not long before flat down she tumbled in the mud and her best clothes she tore oh what a sight she was indeed when in the room she came the guests all loudly laughed at her and she almost died with shame she turned and to her home she ran and then as here you see she washed her clothes and since has been as neat as she could be end of chapter one

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880
by Various Authors

Publication date 2021-07-03
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, poetry, children, history, animals, books, short stories, English, birds, poverty, grammar, George Washington, Storm, egypt, race, letter, napoleon, battle, sea, cat, Brooklyn, Saxon, soldiers, composition, theft, Anglo-saxon, lost, charity, Cairo, puzzle, classical, construction, nursery rhyme, boat, castaway, words, heroism, mediterranean, illustrations, scholar, post office, mail, sail, advertisements, steamer, declaration of independence, catacombs, predator, nest, etymology, canoe, bobolink, barometer, squall, fans, westminster school, syce, running, staten island, hessian, capture, save, musket, frenadiers, cuckoo, brood parasite, sibilings, mariner, optical illusion
LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880 by Various.
Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 26th issue of the serial was published on April 27th, 1880 and in its pages it includes the continuing sagas of a young mariner as he faces a dangerous storm at sea and of George Washington as he leads his troops in battle in the heart of New York City and crosses the Delaware. New stories sketch snapshots of life in an Egyptian foot race, as a student at Westminster School, as a courageous grenadier in the Napoleonic battle of Wagram, and much more. This periodical was published by Harper & Brothers, known today for their publications Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine. - Summary by Jill Engle.
section 1 of harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by ginny rosario harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 across the ocean or a boy's first voyage begun in number 19 of harper's young people march 9th a true story by j.o davidson chapter 8 a white squall hurrah for the mediterranean hurrah for the tideless sea with its sunny skies and sparkling waters blue and bright as ever while english moors and german forests are being buried in snow by a bitter january storm well might one think that these handsome olive cheeked barefooted fellows in red caps and blue shirts who cruise about this summer sea in their trim little latine rigged fruit boats must be the happiest men alive yet there was once an english sailor who plunging into a raw channel fog on his return from a 12th month's cruise in the mediterranean rubbed his hands and cried gleefully ah this is what i calls weather none of your lubbery blue skies here frank having seen for himself that the straits of gibraltar are 13 miles wide instead of being as he had always thought no broader than the east river was prepared for surprises but he could not help staring a little when herrick told him that this bright beautiful glassy sea is at times one of the stormiest in the world and that many a good ship has gone down there like a bullet as you'll see a four long mayhap added the old sailor warningly the sunset that evening however seemed to contradict him point blank it was so magnificent that even the careless sailors used as most of them were to the glories of the southern sky stood still to admire it and pronounce it the finest show they'd ever seen by a long way not a cloud above not a ripple below the steamer's track lay across the glassy water like a broad belt of light all was so calm so clear so bright that it was hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began the ship seemed to be floating in the center of a vast bubble suddenly the sun plunged below the horizon like a red hot ball and a deep...

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880
by Various Authors

Publication date 2021-07-03
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, poetry, children, history, animals, books, short stories, English, birds, poverty, grammar, George Washington, Storm, egypt, race, letter, napoleon, battle, sea, cat, Brooklyn, Saxon, soldiers, composition, theft, Anglo-saxon, lost, charity, Cairo, puzzle, classical, construction, nursery rhyme, boat, castaway, words, heroism, mediterranean, illustrations, scholar, post office, mail, sail, advertisements, steamer, declaration of independence, catacombs, predator, nest, etymology, canoe, bobolink, barometer, squall, fans, westminster school, syce, running, staten island, hessian, capture, save, musket, frenadiers, cuckoo, brood parasite, sibilings, mariner, optical illusion
LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880 by Various.
Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 26th issue of the serial was published on April 27th, 1880 and in its pages it includes the continuing sagas of a young mariner as he faces a dangerous storm at sea and of George Washington as he leads his troops in battle in the heart of New York City and crosses the Delaware. New stories sketch snapshots of life in an Egyptian foot race, as a student at Westminster School, as a courageous grenadier in the Napoleonic battle of Wagram, and much more. This periodical was published by Harper & Brothers, known today for their publications Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine. - Summary by Jill Engle.
section 1 of harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by ginny rosario harper's young people volume 1 issue 26 april 27 1880 across the ocean or a boy's first voyage begun in number 19 of harper's young people march 9th a true story by j.o davidson chapter 8 a white squall hurrah for the mediterranean hurrah for the tideless sea with its sunny skies and sparkling waters blue and bright as ever while english moors and german forests are being buried in snow by a bitter january storm well might one think that these handsome olive cheeked barefooted fellows in red caps and blue shirts who cruise about this summer sea in their trim little latine rigged fruit boats must be the happiest men alive yet there was once an english sailor who plunging into a raw channel fog on his return from a 12th month's cruise in the mediterranean rubbed his hands and cried gleefully ah this is what i calls weather none of your lubbery blue skies here frank having seen for himself that the straits of gibraltar are 13 miles wide instead of being as he had always thought no broader than the east river was prepared for surprises but he could not help staring a little when herrick told him that this bright beautiful glassy sea is at times one of the stormiest in the world and that many a good ship has gone down there like a bullet as you'll see a four long mayhap added the old sailor warningly the sunset that evening however seemed to contradict him point blank it was so magnificent that even the careless sailors used as most of them were to the glories of the southern sky stood still to admire it and pronounce it the finest show they'd ever seen by a long way not a cloud above not a ripple below the steamer's track lay across the glassy water like a broad belt of light all was so calm so clear so bright that it was hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began the ship seemed to be floating in the center of a vast bubble suddenly the sun plunged below the horizon like a red hot ball and a deep...