Rosemary and Pansies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rosemary and Pansies, credited to Effie Waller Smith, 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 Rosemary and Pansies by Effie Waller Smith. Read in English by AnnaLisa Bodtker Effie Waller Smith was recognized as a promising young black poet. Her poems reflect her love of nature, her faith, and her experience as a black woman in Appalachia. Although she only published three volumes of poetry during her lifetime, the poems are as relevant today as when first published. Perhaps she is best described in this poem by Peter Clay: "To Effie Waller. Far upon among the mountains, Where rivers leave their fountains, And happy birds send forth their merry thrills, There dwells a little poet, Though few there be who know it, Whose voice is an echo from the hills." (AnnaLisa Bodtker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rosemary and Pansies
• Author credits: Effie Waller Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 57:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• christian
• poems
• feminism
• african american
• Kentucky
• appalachia
• cumberland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - At the Grave of One Forgotten — 2:46
2. 02 - The Shepherds' Vision — 1:22
3. 03 - Heredity — 1:30
4. 04 - The Wood Fire — 1:29
5. 05 - A New Year's Hope — 1:25
6. 06 - To a Silver Dollar — 1:27
7. 07 - Preparation — 2:16
8. 08 - Ghosts — 1:27
9. 09 - The Rainbow — 1:04
10. 10 - Heroes — 1:36
11. 11 - The Recompense — 1:22
12. 12 - The Test — 1:17
13. 13 - To a Dead Baby — 1:28
14. 14 - Thanksgiving — 1:53
15. 15 - Under Roofs — 1:12
16. 16 - Forever — 1:16
17. 17 - If Christ Should Come — 2:52
18. 18 - Gifts — 1:52
19. 19 - Benefaction — 1:10
20. 20 - Historic Ground — 1:17
21. 21 - A Mountain Graveyard — 2:42
22. 22 - After the Last Lesson — 1:30
23. 23 - The Road to Church — 2:58
24. 24 - The Patchwork Quilt — 3:05

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