Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poems, credited to Adam Lindsay Gordon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Michele McFarland; George Allen; Crln Yldz Ksr; Jack Albert; Michele Fry; Gaby; Diana Schmidt; Amanda Tekell; Anusha Iyer; Sonia; Isabel Thiel; Ryan Finch; John Burlinson; Chris Bunn; J. Olpecre; realisticspeakers; Phil Benson; Jargoniel; Julia Niedermaier; Newgatenovelist This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'. "The poems of Gordon have an interest beyond the mere personal one which his friends attach to his name. Written, as they were, at odd times and leisure moments of a stirring and adventurous life, it is not to be wondered at if they are unequal or unfinished. The astonishment of those who knew the man, and can gauge the capacity of this city [Melbourne] to foster poetic instinct, is that such work was ever produced here at all. Intensely nervous, and feeling much of that shame at the exercise of the higher intelligence which besets those who are known to be renowned in field sports, Gordon produced his poems shyly, scribbled them on scraps of paper, and sent them anonymously to magazines. It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we Beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a versemaker. The success of his republished "collected" poems gave him courage, and the unreserved praise which greeted "Bush Ballads" should have urged him to forget or to conquer those evil promptings which, unhappily, brought about his untimely death.' - Summary from the Preface.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poems
• Author credits: Adam Lindsay Gordon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 5:22:38

Catalogue topics

• australia
• bush

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 01 - Preface, by Marcus Clarke — 11:30
2. 02 - In Memoriam, by Henry Kendall — 3:44
3. 03 - Podas Okus — 7:57
4. 04 - Gone — 4:02
5. 05 - Unshriven — 3:00
6. 06 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte I — 1:57
7. 07 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte II — 5:21
8. 08 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte III — 3:56
9. 09 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte IV — 8:05
10. 10 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte V — 6:14
11. 11 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VI — 1:40
12. 12 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VII — 8:20
13. 13 - Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes - Fytte VIII — 9:52
14. 14 - Borrow'd Plumes — 3:38
15. 15 - A Legend of Madrid — 8:01
16. 16 - Fauconshawe — 10:01
17. 17 - Rippling Water — 5:15
18. 18 - Cui Bono — 3:07
19. 19 - Bellona — 3:54
20. 20 - The Song of the Surf — 3:08
21. 21 - Whisperings in Wattle-Boughs — 2:29
22. 22 - Confiteor — 5:32
23. 23 - Sunlight on the Sea — 5:10
24. 24 - Delilah — 3:13

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