Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ten Commandments In Poems Author: Ron E. Hignite Narrator: Ron E. Hignite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Ronald E. Hignite demonstrates in "The Ten Commandments In Poems" his poetic skills and provides greater understanding and meaning for God's laws for mankind. Listeners will be inspired by the manner and design by which the events at Mt. Sinai are described in poetry and rhyme. This audiobook contains twelve poems, with one on each of the ten commandments, along with an introductory and closing poem.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beatitudes In Poems Author: Ron E. Hignite Narrator: Ron E. Hignite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: "The Beatitudes In Poems" reflects the message of Jesus Christ from His Sermon on the Mount found in the Bible in the Book of Matthew. These poems will inspire their listeners through greater meaning and understanding of the Beatitudes. They describe how the human heart should be and how man should live his life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time To Live And A Time To Die Author: Ron E. Hignite Narrator: Ron E. Hignite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Ronald E. Hignite demonstrates in "A Time To Live And A Time To Die" his poetic skills and gives greater understanding and meaning to God's seasons for man as revealed by Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Listeners will be inspired by the manner in which Hignite presents the contrasts of the ever-changing seasons of man in poetry and rhyme.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heartland Inspirations Author: Ronald Franklin Saia Narrator: Ronald Franklin Saia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 31, 2016 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Heartland Inspirations, a compilation of 147 poems written and read by Ronald Franklin Saia, is divided into five sections, including Country Cruzin (inspirations from travels, experiences, and observations), He Speaks to Me (inspirations born out of faith and living), It's Amore (inspirations born out of real life and hope for sharing of true love), Food Folks (inspirations of family), and Stages of Life (inspirations earned, learned, hoped for in). Some poems will bring tears, some poems will make you laugh, and some will draw you closer to our Lord. Most of all, this audiobook will bring you joy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kentucky Wonder Author: Ronald Franklin Saia Narrator: Ronald Franklin Saia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 30, 2016 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Kentucky Wonder is a compilation of 70 poems written and read by Ronald Franklin Saia about love, family experiences, and the wonders of God. Some poems will bring tears, some poems will make you laugh, and some will draw you closer to our Lord. Most of all, this audiobook will bring you joy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/208399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings: Deluxe Edition Author: Mary Oliver Narrator: Mary Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: March 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.  In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rab the Rhymer: Poems and songs of Robert Burns - a 250th Birthday celebration Author: Robert Burns Narrator: Adrian Chandler, Mhairi Lawson, David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Release date: November 30, 2013 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed actors David Rintoul and Vivien Heilbron and eminent musicians Mhairi Lawson and Adrian Chandler present not only Burns's greatest hits, but also a selection of his lesser-known, yet fascinating works. Together these provide a comprehensive overview of his prodigious and versatile genius. Divided into four thematic sections: Love, Of Mice & Men, Off to War and Food & Drink, there are favourites like "A Red, Red Rose", "To A Mouse", "Tam O'Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss", interspersed with less familiar poems and songs such as "Rattlin' Roarin' Willie", "The Slave's Lament" and Burns's philosophy of poetry summarized in the three "Epistle to J. Lapraik". Contents PART ONE: LOVE A Red, Red Rose [1'40"] News, Lassies, News [0'48"] Mary Morrison [1'23"] SONG: The White Cockade [0'54"] Jamie Come Try Me [0'28"] The Rigs O' Barley [1'48"] Wha Is That At My Bower-Door? [0'59"] A Poet’s Welcome Tae His Bastart Wean [2'09"] Fine Flowers In the Valley [1'17"] What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man? [0'59"] SONG: John Anderson, My Jo [1'08"] Sweet Afton [1'46"] SONG: The Banks O’ Doon (Ye Banks & Braes) [1'43"] Interlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle To J Lapraik, Part 1 [5'29"] PART TWO: OF MICE & MEN To A Mouse [2'54"] Is There For Honest Poverty (For A' That) [1'37"] SONG: The Slave's Lament [2'32"] Holy Willie's Prayer [4'30"] Interlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle To J. Lapraik, Part 2 [4'26"] PART THREE: OFF TO WAR Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn (Scots Wha Hae) [1'27"] SONG: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever [2'40"] I Hae Been At Crookieden [0'38"] O Kenmure's On and Awa', Willie [1'00"] Ye Jacobites By Name [1'16"] A Mother's Lament For The Death Of Her Son [0'51"] Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation [1'08"] SONG: Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes [4'47"] Interlude - The Art of Poetry: Epistle to J. Lapraik, Part 3 [2'04"] PART FOUR: FOOD & DRINK Address To A Haggis [2'35"] SONG: Rattlin' Roarin' Willie [0'41"] Scotch Drink [2'54"] Tam O'Shanter [11'31"] SONG: Auld Lang Syne [3'47"]

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of William McGonagall - the world's worst poet? Author: William Topaz McGonagall Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: November 30, 2013 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The autobiography of William Topaz McGonagall - the world's worst poet? William Topaz McGonagall is widely renowned as one of the world's worst-ever published poets. Yet his discordant muse is hugely popular all over the world - no less a figure than Spike Milligan was obsessed with him. But how do we account for this morbid fascination with verse of little or no discernible merit whatsoever? William McGonagall didn't discover he was a poet until the comparatively advanced age of 52, when he underwent something of an epiphany - the details of which you can hear in all their glory in this unintentionally hilarious and self-celebratory autobiography. Until then, he was a humble handloom weaver, eking out a living in Dundee, Scotland. But once the muse descended, there was no stopping him - he wrote over 200 poems, many celebrating places he had visited on his travels, many commemorating disasters. McGonagall had a strange relationship with misfortune - not just his own, but that experienced by others - most notably the 90 souls who died when the "Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay" collapsed in 1879 plunging the train and its passengers into the icy waters below. He was particularly obsessed with shipwrecks, composing over 20 poems on various maritime disasters. But he also branched out into conflagrations, floods and military defeats, making him an unparalleled chronicler of catastrophe. What you'll hear is not so much an autobiography, as a series in episodes in an otherwise dull and uneventful life punctuated with examples of his unparalleled verse: there's his trip to Balmoral to visit Queen Victoria - she wasn't in; an interlude in London, when a hoaxer placed an irresistible business proposition before him; sailing to New York, only to discover he could not perform there, before sailing all the way back again. And much more. So relentless was his chutzpah and self-belief, it's by turns touching, yet somehow breathtaking in its arrogance. Couldn't he tell he had no poetic talent whatsoever? This puzzle has prompted some commentators to brand McGonagall a hoax. But if the McGonagall persona is nothing but an elaborate confection, the comic genius who dreamed him up has yet to admit responsibility. And, as David Rintoul, the performer of this superb audio remarked during recording - no one appeared to have gained from the deception - least of all McGonagall himself. His frequent shortage of a shiny sixpence prompted the Monty Python team to create a similarly financially-challenged Scottish poet, one "Ewen McTeagle", whose final poem before he committed suicide was entitled "What's twenty poonds to the bloody Midland Bank?" Yet McGonagall is immortal. His verse, in all its arrhythmic, cliched awfulness, will survive us all, and is, in the poet's own words, "wonderful to behold". And now, of course, hear!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aimless Love: A Selection of Poems Author: Billy Collins Narrator: Billy Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: Includes 5 additional poems only available on the digital download. “Billy Collins puts the ‘fun’ back in ‘profundity.’ ”—Alice Fulton From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard with every word, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience. His work is featured in top literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Atlantic, and he sells out reading venues all across the country. Appearing regularly in The Best American Poetry series, his poems appeal to readers and live audiences far and wide and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. By turns playful, ironic, and serious, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love, loss, joy, and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker). Envoy   Go, little book, out of this house and into the world,   carriage made of paper rolling toward town bearing a single passenger beyond the reach of this jittery pen and far from the desk and the nosy gooseneck lamp.   It is time to decamp, put on a jacket and venture outside, time to be regarded by other eyes, bound to be held in foreign hands.   So off you go, infants of the brain, with a wave and some bits of fatherly advice:   stay out as late as you like, don’t bother to call or write, and talk to as many strangers as you can.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Poets: John Clare Author: John Clare Narrator: Thomas Goose, David Shaw Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date: July 24, 2013 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by his contemporaries as the ‘Peasant Poet’ he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. His poems rival Wordsworth’s for their sensitivity to nature and pantheism: ‘I feel a beautiful providence ever about me,’ Clare wrote. But his life was a long struggle against poverty and mental collapse. Some of his finest poems were written in the local asylum.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prelude Author: William Wordsworth Narrator: Andrew Riches, Nicholas Farrell, Neville Jason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Wordsworth’s Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it, and his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turned its back. Subtitled ‘Growth of a Poet’s Mind’, The Prelude is both a key document in the history of English literature, and an inspiring work of imagination, as fresh and challenging today as when it was written two centuries ago.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/183169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Poets: John Masefield Author: John Masefield Narrator: Ronald Pickup Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Release date: June 1, 2013 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: John Masefield (1878–1967) was one of the most prolific, popular and successful poets of the twentieth century. Masefield broke upon Edwardian literature with the startling work entitled The Everlasting Mercy, which described the spiritual enlightenment of a drunken poacher. Over the span of his lifetime, he was appointed Poet Laureate and amassed a large number of admirers, which included such high-profile names as John Betjeman, Robert Graves and W.B. Yeats. This collection contains thirty-six poems and spans Masefield’s entire career. There are early poems from Salt-Water Ballads (1902) and Ballads (1903), followed by extracts from the narrative poems The Everlasting Mercy, Dauber and Reynard the Fox. The selection also includes a number of sonnets including ‘On Growing Old’, as well as his poetry on the Romans, alongside a number of rarities.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of Dreams Author: Giannina Braschi Narrator: Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: An intriguing and hypnotizing work of postmodern fiction from groundbreaking Hispanic-American writer Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams chronicles a decade-long love affair with 1980s New York and all its contradictions. The city’s perversions and passions, power and marginality, grandeur and squalor come vibrantly to life in each of the book’s three sections. “Book of Clowns and Buffoons” imagines life in the city as a carnival-style spectacle that ultimately ends in chaos. Inspired by the Puerto Rican Day parade, a bucolic celebration reclaims the city in “Pastoral.” And “The Intimate Diary of Solitude” spoofs the magical realism of Latin American novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez with its tale of aspiring actress-writer Mariquita Samper, who records the days of her increasingly outlandish life in a mystical diary. Wildly imaginative, rich and complex, Empire of Dreams has garnered glowing praise for being “an ‘in-your-face assertion’ of the vitality of Latino culture in the US” (New York Daily News).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/167944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Poe! Author: Various Authors Narrator: Various Readers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 29, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Poe! is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense, murder and mayhem, Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy, breathtaking, and soulful classic tales include: "The Masque of the Red Death," the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside, performed by Fionnula Flanagan (Transamerica); "The Pit and the Pendulum," a hair-raising first-person account of a man in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition, performed to a fare-thee-well by Stephen Lang (Avatar); "The Black Cat," in which a man's dead pet comes back to haunt him, performed by Tony winner Rene Auberjonois (Boston Legal). Plus there are dreamy, mesmerizing and haunting readings of Poe's wonderfully-atmospheric best-loved poems, "The Bells," "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee." The Tell-Tale Heart performed by Terrance Mann, The Raven performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer and Harris Yulin, The Masque of the Red Death performed by Fionnula Flanagan, The Cask of Amontillado performed by David Margulies, The Bells performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer and Harris Yulin, The Pit and the Pendulum performed by Stephen Lang, Annabel Lee performed by René Auberjonois, Isaiah Sheffer and Harris Yulin, The Black Cat performed by René Auberjonois Presented by Selected Shorts

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/138953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Metaphysical Poets Author: Various Artists Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Thomas Carew and Henry Vaughan: these were some of the 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it, finding in it a deep originality and a willingness to experiment that made much conventional poetry look merely decorative. This collection provides the perfect introduction to this diverse group of fascinating poets

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pearl Drops / Biserne Suze Author: Zeljka Gortinski Narrator: Zeljka Gortinski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 14 minutes Release date: July 25, 2012 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Željka Cvjetan Gortinski presents her first recording of Serbian Folk Poems, oral poetry that has been handed down by word of mouth for centuries. She began her acting career on stage with the Belgrade Drama Theater. Fortunate to have worked with some of the greatest directors of the former Yugoslavia, she continues a successful career in theater, film, television and radio in Europe and the United States. All three poems have been soulfully narrated by Željka in both the English and the Serbian languages and fully enhanced by mystical music and sound design. Included is a bonus track performed by Savo Kontić, a much respected gusle player in Serbia.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/140024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphoses Author: Ovid Narrator: David Horovitch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 3, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The Metamorphoses, by Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17) has, over the centuries, been the most popular and influential work from our classical tradition. This extraordinary collection of some 250 Greek and Roman myths and folk tales has always been a popular favourite and has decisively shaped western art and literature from the moment it was completed in AD 8. The stories are particularly vivid when read by David Horovitch in this new lively verse translation by Ian Johnston.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/140021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classic Poems for Boys Author: Various Authors Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: July 3, 2012 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Casabianca and John Keats's A Song About Myself, to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this is a collection to be treasured

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/140023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Classic Poems for Girls Author: Various Authors Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: July 3, 2012 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to the courtship of a maiden who lived long ago in a kingdom by the sea, there's a poem to suit any feeling or mood. Seasoned Naxos AudioBooks readers Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza, and Benjamin Soames work their magic on the works of Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Christina Rossetti and many more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/139234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dragon Song Author: Harris Tobias Narrator: Gera Hermann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A narrative poem set to an original musical score and given a dramatic reading. The poem tells the story of a dragon slayer who comes to see the error of his ways and vows to never kill again. Everything changes when he falls in love with the Mayor's beautiful daughter. He tries to change his nature and earn a living from the land but he is not cut out to be a farmer. He breaks his vow and returns to what he knows best--slaying dragons. The God's take revenge-- tragedy ensues. Beautifully told against a haunting original musical score, this poem is something you'll want to hear over and over again.