Short Poetry Collection 173: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 173, 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 173 by Various. This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017. It includes: The Ambitious Goose, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Autumn, by John Clare Brahm, by Joseph Furphy Brevity of Life, by Francis Quarles Crepuscule, by E. E. Cummings The Discontented Horse, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Epitaph, by E. E. Cummings The Excellent Way, by Robert Bridges Finis, by E. E. Cummings Flower of Night, by Samuel Lover Flycatchers, by Robert Bridges Hark to the Wind of the World, by Grace Fallow Norton In Harvest Time, by Charles Maurice Stebbins Heart’s Holiday, by Grace Fallow Norton Hell and Hate, by Robert Bridges The Listeners, by Walter De la Mare The Little Ghost, by Edna St. Vincent Millay It was the Lovely Moon, by John Frederick Freeman Measure, by E. R. Dodds The Messenger of Death, by John Stagg Modern Florence, by L. Music Comes, by John Frederick Freeman Mutability (The flower that smiles to-day), by Percy Bysshe Shelley My Aunt's Spectre, by Mortimer Collins October, by Paul Laurence Dunbar October's Bright Blue Weather, by Helen Hunt Jackson Searchlights on the Mersey, by Anonymous Seein Things, by Eugene Field Shortness of Life, by Francis Quarles Shy Perfect Flower, by Grace Fallow Norton The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, by Edna St. Vincent Millay Si Parva Licet Componere Magnis, by Radclyffe Hall Song of Autumn, by Charles Maurice Stebbins Sylvie et Aurélie, by Andrew Lang Universal Humanity, by William Blake Untitled (When into reasonable discourse plain), by Sidney Lanier The Vampyre, by John Stagg Virtues that Pay, by Joseph Furphy The Wanderer, by Thomas Hardy The White Witch, by James Weldon Johnson The White Woman, by John Stagg

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 173
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:45

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - The Ambitious Goose — 1:40
2. 02 - Autumn — 1:16
3. 03 - Brahm — 8:38
4. 04 - Brevity of Life — 2:21
5. 05 - Crepuscule — 0:54
6. 06 - The Discontented Horse — 2:26
7. 07 - Epitaph — 0:37
8. 08 - The Excellent Way — 2:58
9. 09 - Finis — 0:59
10. 10 - Flower of Night — 1:41
11. 11 - Flycatchers — 1:54
12. 12 - Hark to the Wind of the World — 1:29
13. 13 - In Harvest Time — 2:03
14. 14 - Heart’s Holiday — 1:32
15. 15 - Hell and Hate — 3:13
16. 16 - The Listeners — 2:00
17. 17 - The Little Ghost — 1:36
18. 18 - It was the Lovely Moon — 1:13
19. 19 - Measure — 1:27
20. 20 - The Messenger of Death — 8:07
21. 21 - Modern Florence — 0:51
22. 22 - Music Comes — 1:44
23. 23 - Mutability (The flower that smiles to-day) — 1:06
24. 24 - My Aunt's Spectre — 1:49

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