Classic Poetry

Alter Schulstoff spannend interpretiert. Würden Sie von einer Klippe springen, um einen goldenen Becher aus den Tiefen des tobenden Meeres zu bergen? Schillers "Taucher" wagte es um der Gunst einer schönen Prinzessin Willen. Doch wird der Wagemut ihn strafen? Mathieu Carrière berichtet, was Schiller einst gedichtet.

An audiobook for young children, featuring traditional action nursery rhymes sung by Baroness Floella Benjamin.

The Witch of Atlas is a poetic narrative, written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824. The witch is the daughter of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The plot is built around her adventures, during which she creates an androgynous creature, Hermaphroditus, who is both the companion of and the servant to the witch. She plays a series of pranks upon mankind, with the ultimate aim of revealing the essential foolishness of oppression and conflict and enabling the realization of a final Utopia.

"Der Rabe" (im englischen Original "The Raven") ist ein erzählendes Gedicht des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe, hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Carl Theodor Eben und eingesprochen von Kim Jens Witzenleiter. Untermalt mit der Musik von Michael Donner.

Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe: Through an act of heroism a woman saves her lover, who was destined to be executed in The Tower of London at the ringing of the curfew. Towser Shall Be Tied Tonight by Unknown: A Parody of Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight. Instead of taking place in the majestic and historic Tower of London, the story takes place on a farm in Kansas and the threat to Love is the dreaded dog Towser.

Little children need tales and stories, for they play an essential part in their development by awakening their imagination, introducing them to symbolic imagery, and bringing forth emotions in a healthy, constructive way. Our audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon.

A classical collection of recitations by the master narrator Zia Mohyeddin. Volume 10 includes: "Angrezi Adab Para"; "Ek Tukra"; "Kuttay", by Sir Syed Ahmad; "Josh Malih Abadi"; "Nazm Noon Meem Rashid"; "Nazm Meera Jee"; "Khat Mohammad Ali Redolvi"; "Baccha Nahin Hota"; "Ghazal Nasir Kazmi"; "Al Shajri", by Azeem Baig Chughtai: "Nazm", by Noon Meem Rashid; "Ghazal", by Faiz; and "Ghazal", by Faiz and Khamooshi.

A father shares with his family what he learned from Santa's visit the night before.

Children will love these collection of classic stories.

Edgar Allan Poe's classic narrative poem recounts the story of raven's visit to a mourning narrator. The narrator laments the loss of his love, Lenore.

The Raven Edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) presents his complete literary output in five volumes. In addition to 11 prose pieces, volume five contains all of Poe’s verse and also his only play, the unfinished drama, "Politian". Poe’s poetic output consists of 54 pieces, most of them short, but it also includes four longer pieces, The Bells, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and perhaps Poe’s most iconic poem, The Raven.

Zulfiya she'riyati bu- tabiat, zamin, inson va mehnatga nisbatan mehr-muhabbat to'la bir dunyo. Uning she'rlarida hayotni sevish, ruhiy erkinlik, olamni yuksak tuyish kabi barcha eng yaxshi insoniy xislatlar ufurib turadi. Ko'ngildan taralgan har bir so'zda yuksak ezgu hisiyot, qat'iy haqiqat, maftunkor lirika va ohangdorlik mujassam. Har bir chertib-chertib tanlagan so'zdan ishq va sadoqat, so'z va hayot uchun mas'uliyat, kelajakka nisbatan ishonch charaqlab turadi.

This rediscovered classic from the 1930s tells nine imaginative stories about trains, cars, and other machinery with human personalities. All nine stories are featured and children will delight in these tales of a lazy automobile, a runaway elevator, a hungry steam shovel, and other endearing machines.

Many masters employed the form of the sonnet, including Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, and Robert Bridges. However, the most celebrated, and oft quoted, examples are to be found in the collection by Shakespeare, first published in 1609. In the 154 poems, Shakespeare surveys and dissects the subject of love in all its guises, and its relationship with youth, age, illness, death, and memory.

Machtgier, Verführung, Mord und Wahnsinn, Macbeth ist Shakespeares kürzeste und zugleich dunkelste Tragödie. Die Geschichte eines Mannes, der mit Hilfe seiner Frau zum blutigsten aller schottischen Könige aufsteigt. Und wieder zu Fall gebracht wird.

Perhaps the most famous epic poems ever written, the Iliad and the Odyssey have been read for nearly 3,000 years, making them the oldest written works in the Western world. The poems made characters like Paris, Helen, Odysseus, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable, and they also influenced other ancient poets like Virgil, whose Aeneid is clearly modeled after them.

Abou Ben Adhem awakens to find an angel within his room writing the names of those who love The Lord inside a book of gold. To his shock, he discovers his is name will not be added and learns of the fate awaiting him.

La Epopeya de Gilgamesh o Poema de Gilgamesh es una narración de origen sumerio, considerada como la narraciónescrita más antigua de la historia. Se emplearon tablillas de arcilla y escritura cuneiforme, lo cual favoreció su preservación. Las 12 tablillas sumerias datadas entre 2750-2600 A.C. en las que aparecen los poemas que relatan las grandes epopeyasde Gilgamesh, lo ubican como un rey divinizado de la ciudad sumeria de Uruk. Se considera a éste poema la obra literariareligiosa más importante de la literatura acadia y la primera de las grandes epopeyas literarias de la humanidad.

Experience one of Poe’s classics with crisp, clear audio. Orange Island Book Shop is proud to present Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales like you’ve never heard them before.

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", known for its first line, "Come live with me and be my love," is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. The poem was the subject of a well-known "reply" by Walter Raleigh, called "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd".