Short Poetry Collection 120: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 120, credited to Various, 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:

This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox.org volunteers for May 2013. This project contains the following: All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Berg (A Dream) by Herman Melville (1819-1891) Distant Time by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost (1874-1963) Invictus by William Earnest Henley (1849-1903) Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) The Leaden and the Golden Echo by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) A Leave Taking by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) Der Mann im Keller by Eugene Field (translator) (1850-1895), tune by Ludwig Fischer (1745-1825) Ode to an Expiring Frog by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) The Sound of the Trees by Robert Frost (1874-1963) Tears by Anonymous (1603) To a Friend Who Had Declared His Intention of Writing No More Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) A Tombless Epitaph by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Written in Northampton County Asylum by John Clare (1793-1864)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 120
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 32:55

Catalogue topics

• short poetry
• poetry
• collection

Track guide

1. All the World's a Stage — 1:55
2. The Berg (A Dream) — 2:32
3. Distant Time — 1:07
4. For Once, Then, Something — 1:23
5. Invictus — 1:02
6. Jabberwocky — 1:46
7. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo — 4:17
8. A Leave Taking — 2:55
9. Der Mann im Keller — 3:02
10. Ode to an Expiring Frog — 0:49
11. The Road Not Taken — 1:08
12. The Sorrows of Werther — 1:08
13. The Sound of the Trees — 1:03
14. Tears — 1:07
15. To a Friend Who Had Declared His Intention of Writing No More Poetry — 2:38
16. A Tombless Epitaph — 2:45
17. Written in Northampton County Asylum — 2:18

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