Short Poetry Collection 153: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 153, 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 153 by Various. Read in English by Shakira Searle; Ian King; Bruce Kachuk; John Burlinson; VfkaBT; Phil Chenevert; Sonia; Ryan Finch; Tony Addison; Newgatenovelist; Douglas Thornton; Algy Pug; Son of the Exiles This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016. It includes: Absence, by Amy Lowell The Coming of the End, by Thomas Hardy Afterwards, by Thomas Hardy The Day Of Days, by William Morris The Cheat of Cupid. Or, The Ungentle Guest, by Robert Herrick Fascination, by John B. Tabb Fie, Foolish Earth, by Fulke Greville Forty-Second Street, by Emmy Veronica Sanders The Hound of Heaven, by Francis Thompson An Hymn to Humanity, by Phillis Wheatley In the Wilderness, by Robert Graves Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, by David Garrick Lochinvar, by Sir Walter Scott Marriage Thoughts: By Morsellin Khan, by Laurence Hope New Orleans, by Lola Ridge No Master, by William Morris Ode to Evening, by William Collins Ode 1.5 (Quis Multa Gracilis), by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) The Open Steeplechase, by Andrew Barton Paterson Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley Reminiscence of Mahomed Akram, by Laurence Hope The River Merchant's Wife, by Bai Li 李白 Song, by Thomas Moore Song of the Chattahoochee, by Sidney Lanier Story by Lalla-ji, the Priest, by Laurence Hope The Swimmer, by Adam Lindsay Gordon Till All the Bad Things Came Untrue, by Henry Lawson To The Muse Of The North, by William Morris The Troubadour, by W. S. Gilbert

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 153
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 1:14:37

Catalogue topics

• dramatic poetry
• poetry collection
• short poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Forty-Second Street — 2:06
2. 02 - Absence — 1:06
3. 03 - Afterwards — 1:49
4. 04 - The Cheat of Cupid. Or, The Ungentle Guest — 1:56
5. 05 - The Coming of the End — 1:43
6. 06 - The Day Of Days — 1:30
7. 07 - Fascination — 0:39
8. 08 - Fie, Foolish Earth — 1:35
9. 09 - The Hound of Heaven — 10:52
10. 10 - An Hymn to Humanity — 1:59
11. 11 - In the Wilderness — 1:34
12. 12 - Kitty, a fair but frozen maid — 2:03
13. 13 - Lochinvar — 3:04
14. 14 - Marriage Thoughts: By Morsellin Khan — 3:25
15. 15 - New Orleans — 0:59
16. 16 - No Master — 1:43
17. 17 - Ode to Evening — 2:39
18. 18 - Ode 1.5 (Quis Multa Gracilis) — 1:18
19. 19 - The Open Steeplechase — 4:40
20. 20 - Ozymandias of Egypt — 1:21
21. 21 - Reminiscence of Mahomed Akram — 2:38
22. 22 - The River Merchant's Wife — 2:02
23. 23 - Song — 1:57
24. 24 - Song of the Chattahoochee — 2:45

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