Poetry audiobooks

Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars. Though the stormy, vengeful god of the ocean is determined to keep him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side. With wit,... Read more

Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless.The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy... Read more

Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of Man with his expulsion from Eden. It is a tale of immense drama and excitement, of innocence pitted against corruption, of rebellion and treachery, in which God and Satan fight a... Read more

Hate That Cat

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Scott Wolf

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to Miss Stretchberry's class with Jack, the reluctant poet, who over the course of a year encounters new and challenging things like metaphors, alliterations, onomatopoeia, and one mean fat black cat!The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, introduced Jack in Love That Dog, a New York Times bestseller. Both Love... Read more

God's Trombones

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson 

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational... Read more

Sterntaler - Weihnachtslieder und Märchen - Abridged

By: Hermann Löns & Hans Chritian Andersen

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sterntaler, beheimatet in Dornburg im Westerwald, ist seit Jahrzehnten führender Hersteller in Sachen Babybekleidung und Spielsachen für Kleinkinder und jede Familie liebt diese wunderschönen und vor allem hochwertigen Produkte. In der Branche bezeichnet man Sterntaler auch als den "Hugo Boss" der Babybekleidung. Auf dieser Produktion... Read more

Küßt mir aus der Brust das Leben - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Ernst Matthias Friedrich

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lyrik und Prosa - gesprochen von Ernst Matthias Friedrich. Das Vergnügen, Heine zu hören, ist unvergleichlich, komplex und vielschichtig, genussreich, aber auch fordernd, aufstörend und verunsichernd. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) war einer der reichsten lyrischen Begabungen der Spätromantik. Zu bewusst und zu gespalten, um sich dem Pathos einer... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Kahlil Gibran—poet, philosopher, and artist—was born in Lebanon in 1883 but spent his final twenty years of life living in the United States. The three books that compose this audiobook are collections of Gibran's aphorisms, parables, and poetic essays.



The first book, The Prophet, was originally published in 1923 and is considered Gibran's... Read more

A Boy's Will

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written. This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind... Read more

Mountain Interval

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sometimes puckishly humorous, sometimes elegiac, sometimes terrifying, these poems show the young artist using his new-found voice to explore a world - a village in New Hampshire - that meant everything to him. This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as The Road Not Taken, Out! Out!, Birches, and The Hill-wife. It... Read more

War Is Kind

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Crane's second book of poetry followed up the success of his first book, Black Riders. His search for love, his lonely, bitter struggle to make his peace with God, the war in his heart between cynicism and an unshakable longing for truth and beauty in the world - these all continue in his second book.Sadly, this second book was also his... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

North of Boston

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.
From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man. Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in... Read more

Aus der verrückten Welt des Joachim Ringelnatz - Abridged

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Erik Grun

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als reisender Artist im Matrosenanzug tingelte Joachim Ringelnatz ab 1920 durch die Kabaretts in ganz Deutschland und trug seine Gedichte vor. Freilich, seine "Turngedichte" und die Erzählungen und Lieder des Seefahrers "Kuttel Daddeldu" waren ausgesprochen erfolgreich. Live war Ringelnatz jedoch schlichtweg umwerfend. Bis er 1933 von den... Read more

Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his undergraduate years at... Read more

Poesie unterwegs - Abridged

By: Josepf von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl, Heinrich H...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Goslar

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ob im Zug, im Auto, im Bus, oder im Flugzeug. Ob der Weg das Ziel ist, das Büro oder die Westküste der USA: Unterwegs sein ist immer etwas Besonderes. Hier sind wir dem Alltagstrott entrissen, hier fühlen und sehen wir ständig Neues - und schärfen somit auch die Sinne für neues Hören. Als idealer Begleiter für unterwegs präsentiert sich das... Read more

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare on the Fly - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annie Vollmers

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Romeo and Juliet - the most famous lovers in the world, made immortal by William Shakespeare. However, many students have a hard time fighting through the bard's master pieces - because the old English is sometimes hard to understand. For those in need of understandable English we give you the new series "Shakespeare on the Fly":... Read more

Prison Poetry

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Brown takes a look at poetry in prisons. Read more

Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh

Narrated by: Lutz Schäfer, Johannes Steck, Torsten Münchow, ...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Drama, mit dem Jean Anouilh seinen Weltruhm begründete. Gegen den Willen des unbarmherzigen Statthalters Kreon bestattet Antigone, Tochter des Ödipus, ihren Bruder Polyneikes. Doch mit dieser trotzigen Tat und ihrer Reuelosigkeit löst sie eine Katastrophe aus, die unweigerlich ihr eigenes Leben kostet. Ein klassisches Drama, das bis heute... Read more

Whispers from Eternity

By: Paramhansa Yogananda

Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life. These verses rank with the greatest mystical poetry of all time: the works of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, and Omar Khayyam. In this book Paramhansa Yogananda—the great master of yoga and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi—shares... Read more

The Black Riders

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1894, when Stephen Crane was just twenty-two years old, he showed his friend, Hamlin Garland, a set of poems in manuscript. Garland showed them to John D. Barry, who arranged for a public reading of the new work. Crane could not summon up the courage to read the poems, or even attend the reading; he waited outside on the street while Barry... Read more

Betjeman's Britain Poems From The BBC Archive

By: BBC & John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates. Even after his death, his popularity continues to garner acclaim and new admirers. Fortunately, he left behind a legacy of poetry readings and performances in the BBC archives that can be enjoyed in this comprehensive collection. Selected from over thirty years of radio and... Read more

Stauffer an Krüsi antworten - Abridged

By: Hans Krüsi & Michael Stauffer

Narrated by: Vanessa Stern, Mirjam Hofmann & Christian Ahlers

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dichter Stauffer ruft Hans Krüsi. Dies ist die Konstellation des Projektes "Stauffer an Krüsi antworten". Der Aussenseiterkünstler Hans Krüsi, 1995 in St. Gallen gestorben, gibt selber keine Antwort mehr. Aber sein Werk spricht noch immer in unverwechselbarer Deutlichkeit. Dichter Stauffer taucht ein in das noch längst nicht gebändigte Material... Read more

Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson, born in 1830, was the granddaughter of the founder of Amherst College. Except for a few journeys when she was young, Emily lived the life of a recluse in her father's house, spending her days writing poems and letters. In 1862, she sent a few of her poems to a publisher. He replied that her work was too unusual, too different.... Read more