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1Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

By Clement Clarke Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's <em>'Twas the Night Before Christmas</em>, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

2Greener Than You Think

By Ward Moore

Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction wherein a pushy salesman, a cash-strapped scientist, and a clump of crabgrass accidentally merge forces with apocalyptic consequences. A triple-genre combo of science fiction, horror, and satire, Greener Than You Think is a forgotten classic that resonates beautifully with modern times. This is a faithful reading of a 1947 first edition text. (Summary by Lee Elliot)

In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore, as it was entirely unauthorized, she later accepted the edition as well made and used it as the basis for her own 1924 publication of Observations. Moore's unique poetry matches the experimentation underway during the American Modernist movement. Much of it incorporates seemingly out-of-place quotations into complex free verse that often uses Nature as a subject matter. <BR><BR> Today, despite the self-motivated alteration of her poetry in later life, done much to the dismay of her devotees, scholars consider Moore a significant American poet worthy of intense study in an a unalterable place in the canon.<br /> (Summary by Oscar Goff)</br>

4Esther Waters

By George Moore

“She stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporating in the pale evening. A moment more and the last carriage would pass out of sight. The white gates swung forward slowly and closed over the line”. Thus opens the novel about Esther Waters, young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother. Esther Waters is one of a group of Victorian novels that depict the life of a “fallen woman”. It is considered to be Moore’s best novel. (Summary from Wikipedia, revised by Stav Nisser.)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of <em>While Gazing on the Moon's Light</em> by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for May 10th, 2009.

6Drink To Her

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of <i>Drink To Her</i> by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for July 5th, 2009.

7Day-Dream

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Day-Dream by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the fortnightly poetry project for July 12th, 2009.

George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (1873 – 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy.

9In the Morning of Life

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight recordings of In the Morning of Life by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 13th, 2009.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009.

11Visit From Saint Nicholas

By Clement Clarke Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. More commonly known today as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009.

12Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of <i>Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms</i> by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 14th, 2010.

13To...With all my soul

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To...:"With all my soul, then, let us part" by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 16th, 2010.

14So Warmly We Met

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of So Warmly We Met by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22nd, 2010.

15Love's Young Dream

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 2010.

16My Heart and Lute

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 2010<br><br>"My Heart and Lute" is a song/poem by Thomas Moore. In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called Haddocks' Eyes sung by the White Knight. (Summary by Wikipedia)

17Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry Valentine's project for February 13, 2011.<br><br>Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. (summary by Wikipedia)

18Celibates

By George Moore

The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates is a novel of three characters: Mildred Lawson, John Norton and Agnes Lahens.They have nothing in common other than an absolute love of themselves and an inability to sympathize with others. In that vein, it constitutes a striking image of our own modern day self-absorbed society. (Introduction by James Carson)

19For Every Music Lover

By Aubertine Woodward Moore

A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, the very origins of music, there is sure to be something for everyone. (Summary by prwells32)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012.<br><br>Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda, he found his work very light and uninspiring, so only spent around three months on the island. Because of his brief stay there he has sometimes been treated as an unofficial poet laureate of Bermuda.<br>After leaving Bermuda he travelled across the United States and Canada in a Grand Tour. His stay in Nova Scotia was possibly the inspiration for this poem. (Summary from Wikipedia)

21Here, Take My Heart

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012.<br><br> This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems were composed. One of his best known poems is The Last Rose Of Summer. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

22Oh, Call It by Some Better Name

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore.<br><br> Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. (Summary by Wikipedia)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Meeting of the Waters by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 25, 2102.

George Moore, an Irish writer involved with the Celtic Revival was influenced by the French Realists and particularly by the work of Émile Zola. Often considered as the first modern Irish novelist he became involved with Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats in the establishment of the Irish Literary Theatre. As part of his involvement with the Literary Revival, he wrote a set of short stories set in Ireland, drawn from his experiences growing up on his family’s estates in Co. Mayo. The stories were intended to be translated into Irish as a part of a new tradition of Gaelic Literature. <br> The stories were later published in English as The Untilled Field, in 1903. Moore was initially influenced by Ivan Turgenyev’s collection of short stories, Tales of a Sportsman and in turn they are thought to have been an influence on James Joyce’s Dubliners collection. Moore’s stories look at Irish rural life at the end of the 19th Century and examines the role that the clergy played in the lives of those who remained after mass emigration denuded the Irish countryside. - Summary by Noel Badrian

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". <br /> This poem seems to be a 'moral' version of "The Night Before Christmas".

LibriVox volunteers bring you seven readings of Farewell! – But Whenever – by Thomas Moore. This is the fortnightly poetry project for October 12, 2014.

27Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

By Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. - Summary by Wikipedia

28Love Thee ?

By Thomas Moore

This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

29I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

By Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".</br> Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. (Wikipedia)

30Song of the Olden Time

By Thomas Moore

From a relatively early age Moore showed an interest in music and other performing arts. He sometimes appeared in musical plays with his friends, such as The Poor Soldier by John O'Keeffe (music by William Shield), and at one point had ambitions to become an actor. Moore attended several Dublin schools including Samuel Whyte's English Grammar School in Grafton Street where he learned the English accent with which he spoke for the rest of his life. In 1795 he graduated from Trinity College, which had recently allowed entry to Catholic students, in an effort to fulfill his mother's dream of him becoming a lawyer. Moore was initially a good student, but he later put less effort into his studies. His time at Trinity came amidst the ongoing turmoil following the French Revolution, and a number of his fellow students such as Robert Emmet were supporters of the United Irishmen movement, although Moore himself never was a member. (from A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY WILLIAM M. ROSSETTI - the introduction to THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SIR THOMAS MOORE)

The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Melodies" published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists of 130 of his poems set to music, much of it based on old Irish airs. "The Last Rose of Summer" and "The Minstrel Boy" are two of the most well known. Many of these "Melodies" are included in this collection. He is perhaps most infamous for having burned, at the request of the Byron family, the manuscript of Byron's memoirs which Bryon had left to him for publication after his death. During his lifetime, his reputation as a poet placed him alongside Byron and Scott and Shelly. His narrative poem Lalla Rookh for example was possibly the most translated poem of the time and earned him £3000, what was till then the highest price paid by an English publisher for a poem. This collection contains a version of the poem but without the linking or "framing" prose sections. A lovely edition of the full poem can be found here https://archive.org/details/lallrookhanorien00mooruoft with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Moore was an Irish Nationalist and turned down the post of "Irish Poet Laureate" as he felt it would require him to tone down his outspoken Irish national politics. Despite this, he counted the Regent - later King George IV as one of his patrons. Moore died on February 25, 1852 and though much of his work is now neglected, his enduring legacy is that his "Melodies" which were translated into practically every European language popularized Irish Music throughout the world. - Summary by Noel Badrian

32Gamester

By Edward Moore

<i>The Gamester</i> is Edward Moore's most famous work, and while it has fallen into relative obscurity in the last century, at the time it marked an important shift in the staging of eighteenth century tragedy. More specifically, it was one of the first plays to depict bourgeois suffering through the valence of moral values, moving the genre away from the lofty depiction of kings and empires toward something much closer to home for middle-class audiences. As such, the play depicts the trials and tribulations of Beverley, a dissolute gambler whose uncontrollable addiction has endangered the financial security of his household. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the fact that his money is being pocketed by a cadre of villainous sharpers led by the Machiavellian Stukely, who has designs on Beverley's wife and pretends to be his concerned friend. What follows is a drama that, while not possessing the greatest artistic merit, nevertheless affects us as keenly as it did the people who saw its first performance at the Drury Lane Theater on February 7, 1753. - Summary by Tomas Peter <BR><BR>Cast list:<BR> Beverley: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br> Lewson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11790">TJ Burns</a><br> Stukely: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a><br> Jarvis: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br> Bates: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9647">Joseph Tabler</a><br> Dawson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8879">Son of the Exiles</a><br> Mrs. Beverley: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11772">Linda Olsen Fitak</a><br> Charlotte: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11417">Eva Davis</a><br> Lucy: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br> Waiter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11535">Nemo</a><br> Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8164">Rob Board</a><br> Editor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a>

Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts beat beneath muslin frocks as under stuff jackets. When you have finished reading this book about your sisters, perhaps – if you do not already – you will agree with me, and think that it needs only occasion to call out the necessary courage. I have been asked which one of these heroines I think the most daring, but – oh dear – it would never do to have a favourite, would it? So I leave them to you, and that you will enjoy learning of their trials and triumphs is the wish of your friend, the author. - Summary by preface

34Book of American Negro Poetry

By Otto Leland Bohanan, William Stanley Braithwaite, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, James Edwin Campbell, Waverly Turner Carmichael, James David Corrothers, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Ray G. Dandridge, Daniel Webster Davis, R. Nathaniel Dett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Jessie R. Fauset, Leslie Pinckney Hill, John Wesley Holloway, Roscoe C. Jamison, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Charles Bertram Johnson, Edward Smyth Jones, Joshua Henry Jones, Jr., George Reginald Margetson, George Marion McClellan, Claude McKay, William H. A. Moore, Alex Rogers, Theodore Henry Shackelford, Anne Spencer and Lucian B. Watkins

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers. This is the first edition of this long-republished anthology and collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more. - Summary by ChuckW

35Muslin

By George Moore

Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their graduation from convent school. Alice Barton, around whom the story revolves, is unfulfilled by the role society gives her. She wants to find herself, but is prevented from doing so by her gender. Olive, her younger sister, was less popular at school but more "successful" in real life. The sisters could not be more different, and the book explores the rivalry between them. But this book is not only about five girls. It shows the beginning of the battle between landlords and peasants in Ireland, the poverty, and much more. Upon publication, it was considered immoral and banned by the main British libraries. Despite this, due to the public's growing love of realism, it became very popular and is almost constantly in print. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was a former slave, native of West Africa. He was sold as a slave in 1845 and worked in Brazil as a captive; however, when the ship where he was enslaved crew was at the harbor in New York in 1847, he fled. He studied at the New York Central College in McGrawville for almost three years. In 1854, he moved to Canada; he narrated his autobiography to the abolitionist Samuel Downing Moore in Detroit, who published it. His narrative is the only known document about the slave trade written by a former Brazilian slave. - Summary by Leni

37When They Were Girls

By Rebecca Deming Moore

Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Frances Burnett, Julia Howe, Hellen Keller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe are some of the influencial women in our history whose lives and accomplishments are covered in this little book. "When They Were Girls contains the stories of a group of American women, each one of whom occupies a very important place in her particular field. The stories of these women have been written many times before. We feel, however, that in this book you possibly may find that their stories have been written in a little different way. Our desire has been to bring very closely to the attention of our many readers some of the outstanding characteristics in the girlhoods of these women, and to show the relationship between these qualities in girlhood and the achievements of adult life." - Summary by author

38Gayly Sound the Castanet

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Gayly Sound the Castanet by Thomas Moore.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 19, 2020. <br> ------<br> Thomas Moore's description of a Maltese celebration. - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song of the Box by Thomas Moore.<br /> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 13, 2020.<br /> ----<br /> Thomas Moore's poking a bit of fun at George Grote, an English Liberal politician who advocated for elections by secret ballot. (At the time, votes were not anonymous, which led to intimidation and vote buying.) In honour of free, fair, and anonymous balloting, we present this for your enjoyment. - Summary by TriciaG

40Remember Thee

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Remember Thee by Thomas Moore.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 17, 2021. <br> ------<br> Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Moore is often considered Ireland's national bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. ( Wikipedia )

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Longing for Spring-time by George L. Moore.<br> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21, 2021. <br> ------<br> George Logan Moore was an Irish poet, there is not much information on him out there. This poem is taken from the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, March 15, 1879, apparently, he was paid 10s 6d for this poem. This Fortnightly Poem is dedicated to the long-awaited coming of Spring. - Summary by David Lawrence

42Mummer's Wife

By George Moore

Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is considered suitable, and living all her life "over the hills" she wants so desperately to cross. Until she decides her life are not enough for her. The novels she reads give her new ideas that change the course of her life forever.<br><br> George Moore was an Irish realistic novelist. A Mummer's Wife was his second novel. At the time, the circulating libraries were those who published the mainstream novels. They were charged with publishing moral works. They rejected A Mummer's Wife. This sparked interest among the public and it sold 14 editions by the end of the first year. This was considered so dangerous that the libraries took Moore's publisher to court over what was called The Literary Act which was meant to decide which work was considered moral. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

43Like One Who, Doomed

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Like One Who, Doomed by Thomas Moore.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17, 2021. <br> ------<br> This Weekly Poem by Thomas Moore describes a man whose hopes are dashed at the last moment. - Summary by David Lawrence

This fanciful children's story was one of the 1925 Newbery Honor books (published in 1924). Moore's novel blends an interesting tour of an early-twentieth-century New York City with U.S. history and magical dream-like scenarios that children will love. - Summary by Lynette Caulkins <br><br> <b>Cast List</b><br> Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13661">LCaulkins</a><br> Nicholas: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17338">Waffle</a><br> Ann Caraway: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13140">Jenn Broda</a><br> John Moon: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16613">Aaron Sproule</a><br> Brownie: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13123">Little Peanut</a><br> Troll and Merry Man 3: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13706">Scott Caulkins</a><br> Lucky and Elephant 2: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17525">Cheryl Hedrick</a><br> Madison Square Fairy and Fiora Vero: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/14884">Meredith</a><br> Trinity Bishop, Baron Munchhausen, Elephant 1, Mr. Vero, and Traffic Policeman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16205">Jim Hedrick</a><br> Joe Star: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10542">David Purdy</a><br> St. Nicholas, Beef Eater 1, Telescope Man, and Tower Guard: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br> Washington Irving, Peter Stuyvesant, Postman, and Daniel Lyons: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8011">Greg Giordano</a><br> 1st Library Lion: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13278">Kevin S</a><br> 2nd Library Lion, Knickerbocker Rooster, and Miss Vero: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16573">llamaart</a><br> Colonel Flanagan and Mysterious Taxi Driver: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/14540">Andrew Gaunce</a><br> Aladdin and Lt. Renato: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17752">redrun</a><br> Hasan of Bassorah, Merry Man 1, and Jovial Huntsman 3: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18752">Nicole Wright</a><br> Boy Wizard and Principal: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">Todd</a><br> Puss-in-Boots, Jimmy, and Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16561">Anna Kate Dollar</a><br> Sindbad and Toy Soldier: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10859">Larry</a><br> Hindbad: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18075">Paul W</a><br> Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11528">Ciufi</a><br> Captain Kidd: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17524">Joe Bergin</a><br> The Duchess: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15829">TR Love</a><br> Young Washington Irving, Cook, Big Bear, Julian, and Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9835">Elijah Fisher</a><br> Robin Hood, Boy 2, and Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/13257">Elsie Selwyn</a><br> Merry Man 2, Ben's Mother, and Mrs. Vero: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/3157">Tricia G</a><br> Beef Eater 2: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18801">Stunning</a><br> Jovial Huntsman 1: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11331">Scotty Smith</a><br> Jovial Huntsman 2 and Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18543">Agnes Robert Behr</a><br> Walter the Doubter and Wolf: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17767">Michael Broomhill</a><br> Hans Reinier Oothout, Jules Turnour, and Hansom Driver: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12980">Wayne Cooke</a><br> Rip Van Winkle and Uncle 'Rastus: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8576">Phil Schempf</a><br> Charles Dickens and Heckscher Rooster: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17384">Ted Perkins</a><br> Little Bear and Sea Lion: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17024">Maren</a><br> Eagle: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17098">Carol Sutton</a><br> Gretchen: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17004">Susan K</a><br> Suzette: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/3776">Bethany Baldwin</a><br> Conductor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16999">Krista Zaleski</a><br> Porter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17167">Crystal Chiang</a><br> Ben Star, French Doll, Gemma Romano, and Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16835">Medora Kay</a><br> Boy 1: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16815">Jonny117</a><br> Miss Harriet Friend: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15580">Joanna Michal Hoyt</a><br> Festival Dancer: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17024">Amy Sharpe</a><br> Queen of Hearts: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11180">Diane</a><br> Harlequin: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/15543">Jon B</a><br> Captain LeClair: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18782">Priamedes</a><br> Molly Gardner: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/16615">Marie Christian</a> <br>French Steward: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a> <br>Additional Children's Choir: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/18157">Lianne Joie</a>, <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/17546">Victoria Bell</a>, and <a>Norah Nelson</a><br>

Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its questionable grammar, clumsily contrived rhymes and its unique mixture of rigorous moralism and sentimentality, attracted wide-spread mockery from the press and the public, but also the attention of literary celebrities like Mark Twain. Ogden Nash, the comic poet, claimed that Moore was a major source of inspiration. Today the Flint Public Library in Michigan holds the Julia A. Moore Poetry Festival to celebrate bad poetry. - Summary by Algy Pug

46Lake of the Dismal Swamp

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Ballad, The Lake of the Dismal Swamp by Thomas Moore.<br> This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 15, 2023. <br> ------<br> Taken from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore (1840) - Summary by David Lawrence

47Short Strain of Music from the Orchestra

By Thomas Moore

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Short Strain of Music from the Orchestra by Thomas Moore.<br> This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 4, 2024. <br> ------<br> [1]"A certain Spaniard, one night late, met an Indian woman in the streets of Cozco, and would have taken her to his home, but she cried out, 'For God's sake, Sir, let me go; for that pipe, which you hear in yonder tower, calls me with great passion, and I cannot refuse the summons; for love constrains me to go, that I may be his wife, and he my husband.'"—"Garcilasso de la Véga," in Sir Paul Ryeaut's translation.

A mysterious dying man! A hidden diamond! Conspiracy to murder! Ghostly visitations! All this in more in this intriguing and unique story written in a round robin fashion by several of the great fiction writers of the day. The celebrated contributors include humorist Jerome K. Jerome , mystery novelist Eden Phillpotts, ghost and weird fiction author E. F. Benson, Irish author of historical fiction F. Frankfort Moore, and humor and horror fiction author Barry Pain. Together they have written a one-of-a-kind tale! (Summary by Ben Tucker)

49Bring the Jubilee

By Ward Moore

Hodgins "Hodge" Backmaker, a bumbling but curious and fiercely intelligent bookworm who has never felt at home with his family, left his home in rural Virginia in 1938. It's been over 70 years since the North lost the War for Southron Independence, in which his grandpa Hodgins fought bravely, but the repercussions of the impact of the loss still feels fresh after all these years. While the Confederacy blossoms with fine schooling, industrious manufacturing and a prosperous economy, the United States suffers from the lack of progress and poverty that has pervaded a lost union. When Hodge gets to the big city of New York, he finds room and board with a curiously pedantic and contradictory bookstore owner named Tyss who he discovers is working covertly for the Great Army, an underground movement in the northern states looking to take back the nation, through devious means. Eventually Hodge's fortunes lead him to a communal society of intellectuals called Haggershaven where he prospers as a historian. But when an experiment sends him back in time, will he be able to or even desire to change the course of history in that fated battle of Gettysburg? Celebrated as an alternate history classic and listed in David Pringle's Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels, Bring the Jubilee is a thought-provoking and detailed account of a fascinating "what if" scenario! (Summary by Ben Tucker)

50Transient

By Ward Moore

Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He checks into a local hotel where he discovers that the past has a way of catching up with him. Follow Lampley down the rabbit hole of this surrealist metaphor in the grand tradition of Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka in what is almost certainly the strangest tale to ever be printed in the pages of Amazing Stories! - Summary by Ben Tucker