Short Poetry Collection 140: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 140, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 140 by Various. Read in English by Chris Pyle; Winston Tharp; Bruce Kachuk; Kangaroo692; Shakira Searle; DomBombadil; Larry Wilson; Ed W.; Andani Thakhathi; Bruce T. Filbeck; Algy Pug; Nathan Breisath; Alisson Veldhuis; Phil Schempf; Gemma L Myers; Vespero; Andrew Olson; Son of the Exiles; Hilary Hew This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015. This collection includes the following: The Beacons, by Charles Baudelaire The Black Vulture, by George Sterling An Evening Thought - Written At Sea, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Excelsior, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow From One Who Stays, by Amy Lowell Gethsemane, by Rudyard Kipling Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ, by Isaac Watts The Hermit, by George William Russell If Men only Understood, by James Allen The Kiss, by Robert Graves The Man Who Couldn't Save, by Edgar A. Guest Midnight, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Oak, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Other Fellow, by Edgar A. Guest Passer Mortuus Est, by Edna St. Vincent Millay The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies, by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Poem VII (When smoke stood up from Ludlow), by A. E. Housman The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell The Prisoner for Debt, by John Greenleaf Whittier Religion, by Paul Laurence Dunbar Sic Vita, by Henry King Silent Noon, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Snow Man, by Wallace Stevens Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star), by John Donne Sonnet II (Time does not bring relief), by Edna St. Vincent Millay To A Caged Lion, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. To Sleep, by John Keats The Voiceless, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Vulgar Fractions, by C. J. Dennis When You Know a Fellow, by Edgar A. Guest The Word of an Engineer, by James Weldon Johnson You Felons on Trial in Courts, by Walt Whitman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 140
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 1:10:19

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - The Beacons — 2:58
2. 02 - The Black Vulture — 1:07
3. 03 - An Evening Thought - Written At Sea — 2:14
4. 04 - Excelsior — 2:53
5. 05 - From One Who Stays — 1:40
6. 06 - Gethsemane — 1:21
7. 07 - Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ — 1:25
8. 08 - The Hermit — 1:08
9. 09 - If Men only Understood — 3:16
10. 10 - The Kiss — 1:15
11. 11 - The Man Who Couldn't Save — 2:40
12. 12 - Midnight — 2:42
13. 13 - The Oak — 0:38
14. 14 - The Other Fellow — 1:42
15. 15 - Passer Mortuus Est — 1:06
16. 16 - The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies — 4:47
17. 17 - Poem VII (When smoke stood up from Ludlow) — 1:26
18. 18 - The Present Crisis — 7:46
19. 19 - The Prisoner for Debt — 4:01
20. 20 - Religion — 1:08
21. 21 - Sic Vita — 0:49
22. 22 - Silent Noon — 1:17
23. 23 - The Snow Man — 1:06
24. 24 - Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star) — 1:10

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