Short Poetry Collection 166: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 166, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 166 by Various. This is a collection of 36 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017. It includes: Brennu-Njáls saga: The Woof Of War from Chapter 156, by Unknown A College Breakfast Party, by George Eliot Dirge from Cymbaline (Act 4, Scene 2), by William Shakespeare The Dryad, by William Wilfred Campbell Egil’s saga: Sona Torrek (Son’s Loss) from Chapter 81, by Unknown Eurydice to Orpheus, by Robert Browning Farewell, My Home, by Anonymous Finis, by E. E. Cummings The Four Zoas (excerpt), by William Blake The Gates of Life, by George Cabot Lodge In Summertime on Bredon, by A. E. Housman It Rains, by Edward Thomas Lakeland Once More, by William Watson The Lover Speaks, by E. E. Cummings A Minor Prophet, by George Eliot Mothers of Men, by George Cabot Lodge Mowing, by Robert Frost The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes No Coward Soul is Mine, by Emily Brontë Old Ironsides, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. On a stupendous leg of granite, by Horace Smith Peter the Wag, by W. S. Gilbert Poem V, by Abid ibn al-Abras The Ruined Maid, by Thomas Hardy She comes as comes the summer night, by Frank S. Williamson Song by King Charles II, by Anonymous Song of Margaret, by Jean Ingelow Sonnet to Evening, by Mary Robinson Spring, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways, by William Wordsworth Sudden Light, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Thunderstorm, by Felicia Dorothea Hemans To a Woman, by George Cabot Lodge To Milton, by Oscar Wilde To Night. From the Same, by Charlotte Turner Smith Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 166
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 2:20:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Brennu-Njáls saga: The Woof Of War from Chapter 156 — 3:13
2. 02 - A College Breakfast Party — 46:12
3. 03 - Dirge from Cymbaline (Act 4, Scene 2) — 1:34
4. 04 - The Dryad — 3:18
5. 05 - Egil’s saga: Sona Torrek (Son’s Loss) from Chapter 81 — 5:59
6. 06 - Eurydice to Orpheus — 0:54
7. 07 - Farewell, My Home — 3:00
8. 08 - Finis — 0:54
9. 09 - The Four Zoas (excerpt) — 4:56
10. 10 - The Gates of Life — 9:14
11. 11 - In Summertime on Bredon — 1:44
12. 12 - It Rains — 1:11
13. 13 - Lakeland Once More — 2:42
14. 14 - The Lover Speaks — 1:00
15. 15 - A Minor Prophet — 17:32
16. 16 - Mothers of Men — 3:00
17. 17 - Mowing — 1:12
18. 18 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers — 1:07
19. 19 - No Coward Soul is Mine — 1:35
20. 20 - Old Ironsides — 1:07
21. 21 - On a stupendous leg of granite — 1:18
22. 22 - Peter the Wag — 4:10
23. 23 - Poem V — 3:16
24. 24 - The Ruined Maid — 1:59

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