Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems, credited to George Murray; John Reade, 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 by George Murray; John Reade. Read in English by Tomas Peter; Sonia; Joe Brenneman; Larry Wilson; Jessi McDaniel; Pierre Delcourt; Ann Boulais; Kalynda; Sandra Schmit George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry, are Murray's translations of works by popular French poets like Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, along with selections from Greek, Latin, Swedish and German authors. The volume was edited by "the grand old man of Canadian letters" and Montreal Gazette literary editor John Reade, who also provided the prefatory biographical memoir. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems
• Author credits: George Murray; John Reade
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 135
• Listed recording duration: 5:56:56

Catalogue topics

• French
• Latin
• Canada
• translations
• oxford
• british poet

Opening tracks: first 24 of 135

1. 000 - Preface and Biographical Sketch — 20:46
2. 001 - How Canada Was Saved — 7:35
3. 002 - Willie the Miner — 8:18
4. 003 - To a Humming-bird in a Garden — 2:53
5. 004 - The Pardoned Sin — 3:32
6. 005 - The Thistle: A Legendary Ballad — 5:16
7. 006 - A Parable — 2:13
8. 007 - An Eastern Judge — 1:48
9. 008 - The Lake — 3:23
10. 009 - God's Heroes — 1:20
11. 010 - A Legend of the Child Jesus (Written for a Child) — 5:10
12. 011 - The Time Will Come: Rondeau — 0:54
13. 012 - A Lesson of Mercy — 1:22
14. 013 - The King and the Peasant — 1:57
15. 014 - The Story of Brother Paul — 5:29
16. 015 - Robert Burns — 6:15
17. 016 - The Swiss Deserter — 1:55
18. 017 - A Dream About the Aspen — 5:22
19. 018 - Brotherly Love; or, The Site of King Solomon's Temple — 5:37
20. 019 - The Days That Are No More — 5:31
21. 020 - The Deaf Girl — 2:02
22. 021 - The Neapolitans to Mozart — 2:51
23. 022 - The New Year's Night of an Unhappy Man — 4:19
24. 023 - The Sower — 1:14

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