A Spring Harvest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Spring Harvest, credited to Geoffrey Bache Smith, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Spring Harvest by Geoffrey Bache Smith. Read in English by Devorah Allen; Ellies; Larry Wilson; Chris Pyle; Bruce Kachuk; Stefan Von Blon; Benjamin Davis; KevinS G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He was a talented poet and attended Oxford. In 1915, he fought for England in World War I, and died of wounds received in 1916. After his death, this volume of his poetry was published by Tolkien and dedicated to Smith's mother. - Summary by Devorah Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Spring Harvest
• Author credits: Geoffrey Bache Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 1:31:37

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 00 - Introductory Note — 2:41
2. 01 - I: Glastonbury — 16:02
3. 02 - I: Legend — 4:09
4. 03 - II: Rime — 2:05
5. 04 - II: To an Elzevir Cicero — 1:13
6. 05 - II: To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour — 1:09
7. 06 - II: Pure Virginia — 1:04
8. 07 - II: A Preface for a Tale I have never told — 1:31
9. 08 - II: A Sonnet — 1:18
10. 09 - II: ''It was all in the Black Countree'' — 0:53
11. 10 - II: To a Pianist — 1:29
12. 11 - II: A Fragment — 1:17
13. 12 - II: Sea Poppies — 2:29
14. 13 - II: ''O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind'' — 1:00
15. 14 - II: Ære Perennius — 1:51
16. 15 - II: The Old Kings — 1:29
17. 16 - II: ''O there be Kings whose Treasuries'' — 2:16
18. 17 - II: A Study — 1:07
19. 18 - II: The Eremite — 0:55
20. 19 - II: The House of Eld — 0:59
21. 20 - II: The South-west Wind — 0:54
22. 21 - II: Schumann: Erstes Verlust — 1:42
23. 22 - II: ''Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky'' — 1:11
24. 23 - II: ''Wind of the Darkness'' — 1:13

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