Short Poetry Collection 149: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 149, 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 149 by Various. Read in English by Winston Tharp; Shakira Searle; Algy Pug; Newgatenovelist; Glenn O'Brien; Peter Tucker; Son of the Exiles; Bruce Kachuk; Leonard Wilson; Tony Addison; Becca Maggie; Livia F.; Leni; LisaRubio; Isaiah Barker; Craig Campbell This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015: Bantams in Pine Woods, by Wallace Stevens Barter, by Sara Teasdale A Better Answer, by Matthew Prior On the Birth of a Child, by Louis Untermeyer The Burial of Robert Browning, by Michael Field Callaghan's Hotel, by Henry Lawson The Fair Stranger, by John Dryden Farewell, Fair Armida, by John Dryden For'ard, by Henry Lawson The Flaming Circle, by Louis Untermeyer A Fragment, by Adam Lindsay Gordon Her Heart, by John Masefield If You Could Hie to Kolob, by W. W. Phelps Indian River, by Wallace Stevens Infanta Marina, by Wallace Stevens In the Great Metropolis, by Arthur Hugh Clough Sonnet II (Into the golden vessel of great song), by Edna St. Vincent Millay The Kraken, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lay of the Golden Goose, by Louisa May Alcott Life, by Charlotte Brontë A Little Grey Curl, by Louisa May Alcott October, by Edward Thomas Old Man, by Edward Thomas On my first daughter, by Ben Jonson The People’s Anthem, by Ebenezer Elliott Potter's Clay, by Adam Lindsay Gordon To Solitude, by John Keats A Song for St Cecilia's Day, by John Dryden The Song Of The Surf, by Adam Lindsay Gordon Sonnet V, by Fernando Pessoa The Soul's Prayer, by Sarojini Naidu A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucie's Day, by John Donne The Three Kingdoms of Nature, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The Traveler, by Arthur Guiterman Trysting Time, by Confucius 孔子 Valgovind's Boat Song, by Laurence Hope When I Was a Boy, by Eugene Field The Words of Faith, by Friedrich Schiller

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 149
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 1:11:59

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Bantams in Pine Woods — 1:05
2. 02 - Barter — 1:18
3. 03 - A Better Answer — 2:02
4. 04 - On the Birth of a Child — 1:12
5. 05 - The Burial of Robert Browning — 2:05
6. 06 - Callaghan's Hotel — 1:36
7. 07 - The Fair Stranger — 1:04
8. 08 - Farewell, Fair Armida — 1:16
9. 09 - For'ard — 6:23
10. 10 - The Flaming Circle — 1:44
11. 11 - A Fragment — 1:09
12. 12 - Her Heart — 1:27
13. 13 - If You Could Hie to Kolob — 1:30
14. 14 - Indian River — 0:48
15. 15 - Infanta Marina — 0:53
16. 16 - In the Great Metropolis — 1:17
17. 17 - Sonnet II (Into the golden vessel of great song) — 1:27
18. 18 - The Kraken — 2:33
19. 19 - The Lay of the Golden Goose — 4:16
20. 20 - Life — 1:04
21. 21 - A Little Grey Curl — 2:17
22. 22 - October — 1:52
23. 23 - Old Man — 3:47
24. 24 - On my first daughter — 0:54

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