Short Poetry Collection 159: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 159, 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 159 by Various. Read in English by Subhash Chander; Leonard Wilson; Winston Tharp; Newgatenovelist; Shakira Searle; Algy Pug; Tomas Peter; Ian King; Michael Landu; Son of the Exiles; Sonia; Michele Fry; John Burlinson; Olivia Deering; Matthew Datcher This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016. It consists of: Antinous, by Fernando Pessoa To the Average Man, by Wallace Irwin It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, by William Wordsworth Bright Star, by John Keats A Dream of Death, by William Butler Yeats Driftwood, by Sara Teasdale The End of the World, by Gordon Bottomley Fancies about a Rosebud, Pressed in an Old Copy of Spenser, by James Russell Lowell First Love, by John Clare Good and Evil, by Samuel G Goodrich The Heart of Australia, by Henry Lawson The Holy Isle, by Joseph Leycester Lyne Insects, by John Clare In Summertime on Bredon, by A. E. Housman In The Dead-Letter Office, by R. Stewart Is My Team Ploughing, by A. E. Housman A Legend Of Madrid, by Adam Lindsay Gordon Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats The Old Arm-Chair, by Eliza Cook The Outlaw, by Charles Badger Clark The Past, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Song of the Sewing-Machine, by George Pope Morris A Sketch from the Life, by Arthur Guiterman Snake, by D. H. Lawrence Sonnet XVII, by James Russell Lowell Sympathy, by Reginald Heber To One Away, by Sara Teasdale To Sleep, by Emilie Poulsson To the Virgins, by Robert Herrick The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics, by Henry Lawson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 159
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 2:02:59

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Antinous — 19:42
2. 02 - To the Average Man — 2:39
3. 03 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free — 1:19
4. 04 - Bright Star — 1:23
5. 05 - A Dream of Death — 1:01
6. 06 - Driftwood — 0:50
7. 07 - The End of the World — 4:18
8. 08 - Fancies about a Rosebud, Pressed in an Old Copy of Spenser — 3:24
9. 09 - First Love — 1:43
10. 10 - Good and Evil — 2:02
11. 11 - The Heart of Australia — 4:18
12. 12 - The Holy Isle — 34:10
13. 13 - Insects — 1:29
14. 14 - In Summertime on Bredon — 1:51
15. 15 - In The Dead-Letter Office — 4:50
16. 16 - Is My Team Ploughing — 1:44
17. 17 - A Legend Of Madrid — 7:30
18. 18 - Ode to a Nightingale — 6:04
19. 19 - The Old Arm-Chair — 2:00
20. 20 - The Outlaw — 2:27
21. 21 - The Past — 1:13
22. 22 - Song of the Sewing-Machine — 1:49
23. 23 - A Sketch from the Life — 1:30
24. 24 - Snake — 4:49

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