Poetry audiobooks

The Book of Nyles

By: Alexandria House & Nyles Adams

Narrated by: Winston James

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a short collection of poetry from the pen and mind of Nyles Adams, most of which originally appeared in other Alexandria House works.Listen, absorb, and snap your fingers if you are so inclined. Read more

In a Time of Distance

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Alexander McCall Smith

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a beautiful and transporting volume of poems brimming with warmth and humanity.

What matters most in life? For Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship, love, and travel—the themes found throughout his work that have made him a cherished writer the world over. This first... Read more

Vinegar Hill

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Tóibín

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens

Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space... Read more

From Shade to Shine

By: Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Narrated by: Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time... Read more

Some Things I Still Can't Tell You

By: Misha Collins

Narrated by: Misha Collins

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well... Read more

Julius Caesar (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. After defeating enemies in battle, Roman citizens celebrate in the streets as Julius Caesar and his entourage make their way through the city. As Caesar passes a soothsayer, he receives an ominous warning: “Beware the ides of March,” which he immediately disregards. Meanwhile, some of... Read more

Verses On Various Occasions (Unabridged)

By: John Henry Newman

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Verses on Various Occasions is a collection of poems written by John Henry Newman between 1818 and 1865. This period of Newman’s ecclesiastical career saw his ordination as an Anglican priest in 1825, his involvement in the High Church “Oxford Movement” in the 1830s, his conversion to... Read more

King Lear (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. King Lear is a tragedy by Shakespeare, written about 1605 or 1606. Shakespeare based it on the legendary King Leir of the Britons, whose story is outlined in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain (written in about 1136). The play tells the tale of... Read more

Don Juan (Unabridged)

By: Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and... Read more

The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám (Unabridged)

By: Omar Khayyám

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Omar Khayyám was a medieval Iranian mathematician, philosopher, scholar, and poet. He was thought to have composed over 1,000 rubáiyát, or quatrains, in his lifetime. Many different scholars have translated selections of Khayyám’s quatrains, but Edward FitzGerald’s translation remains... Read more

North Of Boston (Unabridged)

By: Robert Frost

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. North of Boston is Robert Frost’s second collection of poetry. It includes some of his more famous poems, like “Mending Wall,” “Home Burial,” and “After ApplePicking.” Read more

Gitanjali (Unabridged)

By: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian—indeed, the first person outside Europe—to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his “spiritual offering of... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: T. S. Eliot

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poetry of T. S. Eliot collects all of his early work through “The Hollow Men.” Poems like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Whispers of Immortality,” and “Gerontion” ponder aging and mortality, while “Sweeney Erect,” “Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Service,” and “Sweeney Among the... Read more

The Aeneid (Unabridged)

By: Virgil

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Virgil’s epic poem begins with Aeneas fleeing the ruins of Troy with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius, with a plan to make a home in Italy. Because of a prophecy foretelling that the descendants of Aeneas will one day destroy Carthage, Juno’s favorite city, Juno orders... Read more

Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral (Unabridged)

By: Phillis Wheatley

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book of poetry ever published by an AfricanAmerican author. Phillis Wheatley’s deep familiarity with Latin literature and Christianity, combined with her African ancestry, provided her with a unique and inimitable view of... Read more

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell (Unabridged)

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. An Antarctic Mystery follows Mr. Jeorling, a wealthy American naturalist whose research has led him to the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the southern Indian Ocean. Jeorling begins his adventure on the Halbrane after being admitted aboard by the reluctant captain Len Guy, who... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: John Keats

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. John Keats’ poems are a major part of the second wave of English Romantic poetry. They portray settings loaded with symbolism and sensuality, and draw heavily on Greek and Roman myth along with romanticised tales of chivalry. Keats died in 1821 at the young age of 25, having written... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: Wilfred Owen

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Wilfred Owen was a soldier and poet during the second half of the first World War. His poetry, contrary to the propaganda of the time, dealt with the horrors of frontline trench warfare and was written at least partially out of a sense of duty to tell of the realities of war. Most of... Read more

The Divine Comedy (Unabridged)

By: Dante Alighieri

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is considered one of the greatest works in world literature, and it established the standardized Italian language that is used today. Writing between 1308 and 1320, Dante draws from countless subjects including Roman Catholic theology and philosophy,... Read more

Songs Of A Sourdough (Unabridged)

By: Robert W. Service

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Songs of a Sourdough is a collection of poems written in 1907 by Robert W. Service while he was working as a bank teller in Whitehorse, Yukon. The bestknown poems are those describing life during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, especially his ballads “The Shooting of Dan... Read more

Beowulf (Unabridged)

By: John Lesslie Hall

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Horothgar, King of the Danes, invites warriors from neighboring kingdoms to his great mead hall with the hope that one of them will solve his problem. A monster named Grendel has been terrorizing the land and killing his people. One of the warriors who answers this call is our epic... Read more

Poetry (Unabridged)

By: William Carlos Williams

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Poems is an anthology of William Carlos Williams’ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sour Grapes (1921). Williams is recognized as one of the foremost poets of American Modernism. In these collections a reader may perceive Williams’ contact... Read more

Macbeth (Unabridged)

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. King Duncan’s closest generals, Macbeth and Banquo, have just defeated two invading armies and the Irish rebel Macdonwald. Out across the misty moor, they encounter three witches who reveal to Macbeth a powerful prophecy: “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail,... Read more

The Iliad (Unabridged)

By: Homer

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Iliad is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Odyssey. It was originally written in ancient Greek and utilized a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme.... Read more