Opportunity, it is famously said, knocks only once.

John James Ingalls, a U.S. Senator from Kansas, penned an ode to this simple but profound principle in the mid-19th century, and it was said to have become Theodore Roosevelt’s very favourite poem.

When he was president, an autographed copy of it was the only thing besides a portrait to hang in TR’s executive office in the White House.
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Opportunity by Walter MALONE (1866 – 1915)
Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Read by: Bill Mosley, CalmDragon, CaprishaPage, David Lawrence, e.a.zokaites, Garth Burton, Jason Bolestridge, Jason Mills, Jannie Meisberger, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Miguel Angel Valentino Quiroz, mlcui, ravenotation, Tom Merritt, rookieblue, Vanessa Garcia, William A Crenshaw, Pascal Ramseier in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 – 01 – Opportunity – Read by BM
00:02:09 – 02 – Opportunity – Read by CD
00:03:43 – 03 – Opportunity – Read by CMP
00:05:50 – 04 – Opportunity – Read by DL
00:07:35 – 05 – Opportunity – Read by EAZ
00:09:37 – 06 – Opportunity – Read by GB
00:11:33 – 07 – Opportunity – Read by JAB
00:13:03 – 08 – Opportunity – Read by JCM
00:14:44 – 09 – Opportunity – Read by JM
00:16:31 – 10 – Opportunity – Read by LAH
00:18:16 – 11 – Opportunity – Read by LLW
00:20:23 – 12 – Opportunity – Read by MAVQ
00:22:05 – 13 – Opportunity – Read by MC
00:23:53 – 14 – Opportunity – Read by RN
00:25:55 – 15 – Opportunity – Read by TM
00:28:02 – 16 – Opportunity – Read by TS
00:29:54 – 17 – Opportunity – Read by VG
00:31:36 – 18 – Opportunity – Read by WAC
00:33:05 – 19 – Opportunity – Read by XY

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Walter Malone was born in DeSoto Count, Mississippi. He wrote 2 volumes of poetry before he was 20 years old. He joined his brother in law practice, but continued to publish several collections of his poems over the years. (Summary by David Lawrence)

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