Short Poetry Collection 161: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 161, 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 161 by Various. Read in English by Sonia; John Burlinson; Ian King; Kangaroo; Winston Tharp; Michele Fry; Hatton43; Bruce Kachuk; Newgatenovelist; Tomas Peter; Algy Pug; Jim Nyenhuis This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2016. It includes the following poems: Art versus Cupid, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Autumn, by Alice Cary Autumn, by Walter De la Mare Autumn: A Dirge, by Percy Bysshe Shelley Bright star, would I were as stedfast as thou art, by John Keats The City In The Sea, by Edgar Allan Poe Cock o' the North, by Arthur Waugh Digging, by Edward Thomas Drinking, by Abraham Cowley The Foundling, by Lola Ridge The Haunted House, by Janet Hamilton Haunted Houses, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Heraclitus, by William Cory The Homeward Track, by C. J. Dennis The Horrors of War, by Janet Hamilton The Joy Ride, by C. J. Dennis Low Barometer, by Robert Bridges Man’s Testament, extract from Ye Wearie Wayfarer, by Adam Lindsay Gordon The Meeting, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow North Wind, by Lola Ridge October, 1861, by Janet Hamilton Once More Fields and Gardens, by Yuanming Tao 陶淵明 Promenade, by Lola Ridge Silver, by Walter De la Mare Sleep, by Walter De la Mare Sonnet LXXIII, by William Shakespeare The Valley of Unrest, by Edgar Allan Poe The Witch, by Mary Coleridge

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 161
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 55:27

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Art versus Cupid — 8:28
2. 02 - Autumn — 2:11
3. 03 - Autumn — 1:02
4. 04 - Autumn: A Dirge — 1:19
5. 05 - Bright star, would I were as stedfast as thou art — 1:15
6. 06 - The City In The Sea — 2:58
7. 07 - Cock o' the North — 0:37
8. 08 - Digging — 1:04
9. 09 - Drinking — 1:11
10. 10 - The Foundling — 1:21
11. 11 - The Haunted House — 2:40
12. 12 - Haunted Houses — 2:06
13. 13 - Heraclitus — 0:52
14. 14 - The Homeward Track — 2:17
15. 15 - The Horrors of War — 2:05
16. 16 - The Joy Ride — 4:59
17. 17 - Low Barometer — 1:29
18. 18 - Man’s Testament, extract from Ye Wearie Wayfarer — 0:40
19. 19 - The Meeting — 1:23
20. 20 - North Wind — 1:28
21. 21 - October, 1861 — 3:13
22. 22 - Once More Fields and Gardens — 2:06
23. 23 - Promenade — 1:43
24. 24 - Silver — 1:22

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