Multilingual Short Works Collection 035 - Poetry & Prose

This is our 35th collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. - Summary by ToddHW 1. French - Voyelles - 1:32 Arthur Rimbaud Link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29302] Keywords: voyelles, poésie, french poetry, rimbaud 2. German - Am Thurme - 2:04 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Link to text [https://archive.org/details/3865757/page/69/mode/1up] Keywords: poem 3. Latin - De Abbate, Cibo, et Monachis - 2:08 Odo of Cheriton Link to text [https://archive.org/details/lesfabulisteslat04hervuoft/page/178/mode/1up] Keywords: Middle Ages, Medieval, Latin, fables, Aesop 4. Latin - De Ciconia et Catto - 1:51 Odo of Cheriton Link to text [https://archive.org/details/lesfabulisteslat04hervuoft/page/243/mode/1up] Keywords: Middle Ages, Medieval, Latin, fables, Aesop, animals 5. Latin - De Claustrali - 1:32 Odo of Cheriton Link to text [https://archive.org/details/lesfabulisteslat04hervuoft/page/243/mode/1up] Keywords: Middle Ages, Medieval, Latin, fables, Aesop 6. Luxembourgish - D'Margrétchen - 2:41 Michel Lentz Link to text [https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/wn3g2w/pages/57/articles/DTL2488?search=*lentz] Keywords: flowers, spring, love, nature, song 7. Polish - Na zdrowie - 1:00 Jan Kochanowski Link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Klejnoty_poezji_staropolskiej_(red._Baumfeld).djvu/288] Keywords: zdrowie, pochwała, fraszka 8. Polish - O powieści historycznej - 44:50 Henryk Sienkiewicz Link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Pisma_Henryka_Sienkiewicza_(ed._Tyg._Illustr.)_vol._81.djvu/262] Keywords: odczyt, powieść, argumenty, krytyka 9. Polish - O wojnie naszej, którą wiedziemy z szatanem, światem i ciałem - 1:13 Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński Link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Klejnoty_poezji_staropolskiej_(red._Baumfeld).djvu/219] Keywords: walka, Bóg, religia, życie, sonet 10. Polish - Walka byków - 45:34 Henryk Sienkiewicz Link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:Pisma_Henryka_Sienkiewicza_(ed._Tyg._Illustr.)_vol._81.djvu/291] Keywords: corrida, walka, Hiszpania, okrucieństwo 11. Russian - Однообразные мелькают [Odnoobraznye mel'kaiut] - 1:20 Николай Гумилёв Link to text [https://imwerden.de/publ-3242.html] Keywords: любовь, смерть, мечта 12. Spanish - Caá-mí - 27:04 Domingo Parodi Link to text [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=txu.059173023967334&view=1up&seq=55&q1=yerba] Keywords: yerba mate, caá-mí, guaraní, té, café, yerbas medicinales, conocimientos indígenas 13. Spanish - Carta de une hormiga esclavista (polyergus rufescens),escrita durante su viaje por Europa, a la reina de su hormiguero - 8:56 Santiago Ramón y Cajal Link to text [https://bipadi.ub.edu/digital/collection/hismed/id/60252] key words: hormigas, humanidad, estructura social 14. Spanish - El cubismo - 18:22 Enrique Gómez Carrillo Link to text [https://archive.org/details/crnicas01gmez/page/62/mode/2up] Keywords: Cubismo, Picasso, crítica de arte 15. Spanish - Filipinas dentro de cien años (estudio político-social) - 1:14:26 José Rizal Link to text [https://archive.org/details/ahz9168.0001.001.umich.edu/page/n1/mode/2up] Keywords: Colonialismo, Racismo, Frailismo, Poblaciones indígenas 16. Spanish - Introducción al Manual de histología normal y técnica - 24:44 micrográfica Santiago Ramón y Cajal Link to text [https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wegkqafc/items?canvas=13] key words: historia de la teoría celular, investigación científica 17. Spanish - Observaciones preliminares en notas sobre algunas plantas usuales del Paraguay, de Corrientes y de Misiones - 18:52 Domingo Parodi Link to text [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=txu.059173023967334&view=1up&seq=26&q1=esp] Keywords: guaraní, yerbas medicinales, indios, botánica 18. Spanish - La psicología del viaje - 51:33 Enrique Gómez Carrillo Link to text [https://archive.org/details/crnicas01gmez/page/6/mode/2up] Keywords: literatura de viajes; turismo; países 19. Yiddish - Varzweiflung - 3:39 Morris Rosenfeld Link to text [https://archive.org/details/songsfromghettow00roseuoft/page/32/mode/2up] Keywords: despair, death, hard work, memento mori 20. Yiddish - Wuhin - 1:30 Morris Rosenfeld Link to text [https://archive.org/details/songsfromghettow00roseuoft/page/26/mode/2up] Keywords: poverty, work, hard life