Short Poetry Collection 157: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 157, 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 157 by Various. Read in English by Amy Gramour; Leonard Wilson; Craig Campbell; Sonia; Newgatenovelist; John Burlinson; Shakira Searle; Tomas Peter; annanneass; Son of the Exiles; Nancy Strickland This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2016. The Three Musicians, by Aubrey Beardsley Bird Language, by Christopher Pearse Cranch Charles the Fifth's Clocks, by John Quincy Adams The City, by Archibald Lampman Come let us make love deathless, by Herbert Trench Enigma 694, by Eugenia On the Gift of a Book to a Child, by Hilaire Belloc Hymn to Joy, by Friedrich Schiller Messmates, by Sir Henry Newbolt Mirage, by Amy Lowell Nightfall, by Sara Teasdale Open Windows, by Sara Teasdale Preludes, by T. S. Eliot The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe Reincarnation, by Arthur Adams Rhapsody on a Windy Night, by T. S. Eliot Said Hanrahan, by John O'Brien Sonnet XXVII, by Fernando Pessoa Sonnet XXIX, by William Shakespeare Sonnet LXXX, by Anna Seward The Stepmother, by James Whitcomb Riley The Thousandth Man, by Rudyard Kipling Wishing, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 157
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 52:46

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - The Three Musicians — 2:17
2. 02 - Bird Language — 2:00
3. 03 - Charles the Fifth's Clocks — 5:06
4. 04 - The City — 2:23
5. 05 - Come let us make love deathless — 1:12
6. 06 - Enigma 694 — 1:44
7. 07 - On the Gift of a Book to a Child — 1:14
8. 08 - Hymn to Joy — 4:50
9. 09 - Messmates — 1:55
10. 10 - Mirage — 1:14
11. 11 - Nightfall — 0:55
12. 12 - Open Windows — 1:11
13. 13 - Preludes — 2:51
14. 14 - The Raven — 8:10
15. 15 - Reincarnation — 1:12
16. 16 - Rhapsody on a Windy Night — 3:34
17. 17 - Said Hanrahan — 4:00
18. 18 - Sonnet XXVII — 1:02
19. 19 - Sonnet LXXX — 1:07
20. 20 - Sonnet XXIX — 1:20
21. 21 - The Stepmother — 1:02
22. 22 - The Thousandth Man — 1:49
23. 23 - Wishing — 1:33

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