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Early Rising

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2010.

The words "dutiful" and "pious" never applied to the aspiring satirist. Bored by his legal work, Saxe began publishing poems for The Knickerbocker, of which "The Rhyme of the Rail" is his most famous early work. He soon caught the attention of the prominent Boston publishing house, Ticknor and Fields. Though he received no royalties for his first volume, it ran to ten reprintings and eventually outsold works by Hawthorne and Tennyson.

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Early Rising - Read by BC (BlackCat)
Early Rising - Read by CC (Chris Caron)
Early Rising - Read by DL (David Lawrence)
Early Rising - Read by DRB (David Barnes)
Early Rising - Read by GHS (Algy Pug)
Early Rising - Read by JC (Joshua Commander)
Early Rising - Read by JCM (Jason Mills)
Early Rising - Read by JM (Jannie Meisberger)
Early Rising - Read by JSK (J.S. Kenney)
Early Rising - Read by LAH (Lee Ann Howlett)
Early Rising - Read by LED (Levi)
Early Rising - Read by LLW (Leonard Wilson)
Early Rising - Read by ND (Zloot)
Early Rising - Read by TG (TriciaG)
Early Rising - Read by WT (Winston Tharp)
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