Short Poetry Collection 171: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 171, 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 171 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2017. It includes: Air XXII, from Three Airs for the Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay Andante, by Frederick George Scott The bee is not afraid of me, by Emily Dickinson The Cherry-Blossom Wand, by Anna Wickham The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden, by Juyi Bai 白居易 Comforted, by Anonymous Dearest, this one day we own, by Augusta Webster Eulalie, by Edgar Allan Poe Frostbound, by Violet Jacob The Labourers' Hymn, by Bernard Gilbert Live Blindly and Upon the Hour, by Trumbull Stickney Native Lament for Tusitala, by Unknown No News from the War, by Augusta Webster O, Gather Me the Rose, by William Ernest Henley Oh Fools, by Bernard Gilbert Oh, to be Home, by Bernard Gilbert The Owl, by Edward Thomas Perdita, by Eli Lundy Huggins Premonition, by George Santayana Prologue to Alice, by Lewis Carroll Rain, by William Saphier The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe Sea-Sighing, by Edward Dowden Song of Khan Zada, by Laurence Hope Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare Sonnet 65, by William Shakespeare Sonnet VII, by Francesco Petrarca To My Beef Tea, by Anonymous White Rose and Red, by Augusta Webster Youth's Agitations, by Matthew Arnold

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 171
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 58:38

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Air XXII, from Three Airs for the Beggar’s Opera — 0:47
2. 02 - Andante — 0:59
3. 03 - The bee is not afraid of me — 0:45
4. 04 - The Cherry-Blossom Wand — 1:16
5. 05 - The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden — 1:53
6. 06 - Comforted — 2:07
7. 07 - Dearest, this one day we own — 1:25
8. 08 - Eulalie — 1:40
9. 09 - Frostbound — 1:29
10. 10 - The Labourers' Hymn — 2:52
11. 11 - Live Blindly and Upon the Hour — 1:03
12. 12 - Native Lament for Tusitala — 2:49
13. 13 - No News from the War — 3:12
14. 14 - O, Gather Me the Rose — 0:55
15. 15 - Oh Fools — 2:17
16. 16 - Oh, to be Home — 2:05
17. 17 - The Owl — 1:23
18. 18 - Perdita — 4:25
19. 19 - Premonition — 1:43
20. 20 - Prologue to Alice — 2:24
21. 21 - Rain — 1:16
22. 22 - The Raven — 10:17
23. 23 - Sea-Sighing — 1:35
24. 24 - Song of Khan Zada — 0:44

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