Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems, credited to Edward Powys Mathers, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems by Edward Powys Mathers. Read in English by Nemo; Amy Gramour "There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse. It is haphazard, as such books must be until some polyglot scholar gives a whole life to the matter. Variety was the only aim possible in a space so small, and therefore I have selected love poems of different centuries and of both primitive and subtle peoples." - Summary by Author

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems
• Author credits: Edward Powys Mathers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 1:19:21

Catalogue topics

• love poems
• asian poetry
• romantic poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 00 - Foreword — 2:45
2. 01 - Shade of the Orange Leaves — 1:08
3. 02 - The Dalliance of the Leopards — 0:47
4. 03 - War Song — 2:40
5. 04 - Black Hair — 4:50
6. 05 - The Garden of Bamboos — 0:47
7. 06 - Eyes That Move Not — 2:24
8. 07 - Gazal — 1:02
9. 08 - Doubt — 0:32
10. 09 - Song — 1:37
11. 10 - My Desire — 3:43
12. 11 - Distich — 0:33
13. 12 - Song — 0:41
14. 13 - The Emperor — 1:30
15. 14 - Song — 1:16
16. 15 - Love Song — 2:04
17. 16 - Fardiyat — 0:45
18. 17 - Loving Things — 1:12
19. 18 - Being Together at Night — 0:41
20. 19 - The Peach Flower — 1:25
21. 20 - Leila — 1:40
22. 21 - Looking at the Moon — 0:37
23. 22 - Song — 0:47
24. 23 - A Love Rapture — 1:05

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