Early Ballads and Lyrics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Early Ballads and Lyrics, credited to William Butler Yeats, 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 Early Ballads and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats. Read in English by Kazbek. Poems collected under the rubric Early Poems: Ballads and Lyrics in The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Volume 1 (1908). Most of the poems were published in the collection Crossways, while others are sometimes included in the collection The Rose. - Summary by Kazbek

Recording facts

• Recording title: Early Ballads and Lyrics
• Author credits: William Butler Yeats
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 46:21

Track guide

1. 01 - To some I have talked with by the fire. A dedication to a volume of early poems — 1:38
2. 02 - The song of the happy shepherd — 3:24
3. 03 - The sad shepherd — 2:14
4. 04 - The cloak, the boat, and the shoes — 1:06
5. 05 - Anashuya and Vijaya — 7:53
6. 06 - The Indian upon God — 2:06
7. 07 - The Indian to his love — 1:25
8. 08 - The falling of the leaves — 0:47
9. 09 - Ephemera — 1:55
10. 10 - The madness of King Goll — 4:26
11. 11 - The stolen child — 2:37
12. 12 - To an isle in the water — 0:50
13. 13 - Down by the Salley Gardens — 0:57
14. 14 - The meditation of the old fisherman — 1:17
15. 15 - The ballad of Father O'Hart — 2:07
16. 16 - The ballad of Moll Magee — 2:39
17. 17 - The ballad of the foxhunter — 2:38
18. 18 - The ballad of Father Gilligan — 2:27
19. 19 - The lamentation of the old pensioner — 0:47
20. 20 - The fiddler of Dooney — 1:04
21. 21 - The dedication to a book of stories selected from the Irish novelists — 2:04

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.