Poems and Songs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems and Songs, credited to Henry Kendall, 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 Poems and Songs by Henry Kendall. Read in English by Sylvester Lan; DebK; Larry Wilson; Heather James; Leonard Wilson; Jude; Algy Pug; Peter Tucker; Lilian Elizabeth Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his—Adam Lindsay Gordon, of English parentage and education, and Charles Harpur, born in Australia a generation earlier than Kendall. Harpur's work, though lacking vitality, shows fitful gleams of poetic fire suggestive of greater achievement had the circumstances of his life been more favourable. Kendall, whose lot was scarcely more fortunate, is a true singer; his songs remain, and are likely long to remain, attractive to poetry lovers. - Summary by From the Introduction

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems and Songs
• Author credits: Henry Kendall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 2:29:40

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• australia
• poems
• gordon
• kendall

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Biographical Note — 22:17
2. 02 - The Muse of Australia — 0:56
3. 03 - Mountains — 5:32
4. 04 - Kiama — 2:33
5. 05 - Etheline — 1:53
6. 06 - Aileen — 2:36
7. 07 - Kooroora — 2:03
8. 08 - Fainting by the Way — 5:40
9. 09 - Song of the Cattle-Hunters — 1:06
10. 10 - Footfalls — 3:20
11. 11 - God Help Our Men at Sea — 2:33
12. 12 - Sitting by the Fire — 3:57
13. 13 - Bellambi's Maid — 1:57
14. 14 - The Curlew Song — 2:48
15. 15 - The Ballad of Tanna — 2:16
16. 16 - The Rain Comes Sobbing to the Door — 3:00
17. 17 - Urara — 2:57
18. 18 - Evening Hymn — 2:20
19. 19 - Stanzas — 1:10
20. 20 - The Wail in the Native Oak — 6:02
21. 21 - Harps We Love — 1:07
22. 22 - Waiting and Wishing — 1:59
23. 23 - The Wild Kangaroo — 2:57
24. 24 - Clari — 1:19

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