Short Poetry Collection 142: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 142, 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:

LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 142 by Various. Read in English by Newgatenovelist; Winston Tharp; Larry Wilson; William George; Phil Schempf; Rachel; Glenn O'Brien; Shakira Searle; Patricia Booth; Son of the Exiles; Olga Byelova; Bruce Kachuk; Ed Humpal; Eileen Tipping; Leara Morris-Clark This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2015: The Aloe, by Laurence Hope Alone, by Edgar Allan Poe Bryan of Brittany, by James Elroy Flecker Copernicus, by Alfred Noyes Easter Day II, by Arthur Hugh Clough Fiddler Jones, by Edgar Lee Masters Go, Lovely Rose, by Edmund Waller The House That Jack Built, by Randolph Caldecott How the Leaves Came Down, by Susan Coolidge In Possum Land, by Henry Lawson Sonnet II from Four Sonnets (I think I should have loved you presently), by Edna St. Vincent Millay A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth, by Stephen Hawes March Evening, by Amy Lowell Morning-Rains, by Michael Field An Old Master, by C. J. Dennis Rules and Regulations, by Lewis Carroll The Sea and the Skylark, by Gerard Manley Hopkins Smokey the Bear Sutra, by Gary Snyder Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Starlight Night, by Gerard Manley Hopkins Untitled (I had been hungry all the years), by Emily Dickinson 'Urry, by C. J. Dennis Wisdom, by Sara Teasdale Two poems of medium length in this collection: #04 "Copernicus" (13:38) is from the volume "Watchers of the Sky" by Alfred Noyes. #12 "A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth" (14:12). The original text was published as an eight-page pamphlet. In the surviving copy, the bottoms of the pages have been cropped. A total of three lines are therefore missing, and a further three have been reconstructed from their surviving portions. The html version of the poem shows these reconstructions. This poem has been read using modern English pronunciation. Some words have no modern equivalent, including such words as encensing, entenderment, soote, boote, withouten, inuentions, contrarious, and minnish which is short for dimminish. Emyspery = hemisphere. Quayre (quire) = an eight-page printed booklet. Tene = harm, injury or hurt. Rother = rudder The "monk of bery" was John Lydgate of Bury St. Edmunds (c. 1370 - c. 1451) a monk and poet.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 142
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 1:12:57

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - The Aloe — 0:39
2. 02 - Alone — 1:18
3. 03 - Bryan of Brittany — 5:22
4. 04 - Copernicus — 13:38
5. 05 - Easter Day II — 2:07
6. 06 - Fiddler Jones — 1:54
7. 07 - Go, Lovely Rose — 1:11
8. 08 - The House That Jack Built — 2:22
9. 09 - How the Leaves Came Down — 1:48
10. 10 - In Possum Land — 0:43
11. 11 - Sonnet II from Four Sonnets (I think I should have loved you presently) — 1:41
12. 12 - A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth — 14:12
13. 13 - March Evening — 1:42
14. 14 - Morning-Rains — 0:42
15. 15 - An Old Master — 4:18
16. 16 - Rules and Regulations — 1:28
17. 17 - The Sea and the Skylark — 1:35
18. 18 - Smokey the Bear Sutra — 5:49
19. 19 - Spring — 1:30
20. 20 - The Starlight Night — 1:40
21. 21 - Untitled (I had been hungry all the years) — 1:03
22. 22 - 'Urry — 5:02
23. 23 - Wisdom — 1:11

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