Ballad of the Canal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ballad of the Canal, credited to Phoebe Cary, 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 volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ballad of the Canal by Phoebe Cary. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 4, 2011. Phoebe Cary was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of her own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled.(Summary by Wikipedia) This poem is a parody of "Ballad of the Tempest" by James T. Field.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ballad of the Canal
• Author credits: Phoebe Cary
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 17:09

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• humor
• nature
• satire
• sea stories
• parody

Track guide

1. Ballad of the Canal - Read by CB — 1:16
2. Ballad of the Canal - Read by DL — 1:15
3. Ballad of the Canal - Sung by EZWA — 3:15
4. Ballad of the Canal - Read by GC — 1:17
5. Ballad of the Canal - Read by GHS — 1:18
6. Ballad of the Canal - Read by HNH — 2:05
7. Ballad of the Canal - Read by LAH — 1:18
8. Ballad of the Canal - Read by LLB — 1:20
9. Ballad of the Canal - Read by LLW — 1:32
10. Ballad of the Canal - Read by REF — 1:15
11. Ballad of the Canal - Read by RN — 1:23

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