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The Circus

Edwin C. Ranck

Literature, Poetry, Humor · English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Circus by Edwin C Ranck.

This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 14, 2020.

Read in English by ambsweet13; andybeddy; Bruce Kachuk; Batty Royale; Craig Franklin; ChadH94; Chris Pyle; David Lawrence; Edmond Aggabao; EliseDee; mammutty; Garth Burton; Garfield Dsouza; Graham Scott; Lee Ann Howlett; Princess Nwafor; Phil Schempf; Larry Wilson and Ryan Fink.

This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that "murder will out." Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded. From the Preface to Poems for Pale People, A Volume of Verse By Edwin C. Ranck.

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queue_music Chapters 19

  1. 1 01 - The Circus - Read by AMB 1:18
  2. 2 02 - The Circus - Read by AWB 1:30
  3. 3 03 - The Circus - Read by BK 1:34
  4. 4 04 - The Circus - Read by BR 1:33
  5. 5 05 - The Circus - Read by CF 1:26
  6. 6 06 - The Circus - Read by CJPH 1:15
  7. 7 07 - The Circus - Read by CLP 1:08
  8. 8 08 - The Circus - Read by DL 1:18
  9. 9 09 - The Circus - Read by EA 1:13
  10. 10 10 - The Circus - Read by ED 1:08
  11. 11 11 - The Circus - Read by FH 1:12
  12. 12 12 - The Circus - Read by GB 1:27
  13. 13 13 - The Circus - Read by GD 1:21
  14. 14 14 - The Circus - Read by GRS 1:29
  15. 15 15 - The Circus - Read by LAH 1:18
  16. 16 16 - The Circus - Read by PN 1:11
  17. 17 17 - The Circus - Read by PS 1:19
  18. 18 18 - The Circus - Read by LCW 1:18
  19. 19 19 - The Circus - Read by RF 1:29

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