Short Poetry Collection 180: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 180, 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

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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 180 by Various. This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018. It includes the following poems: After the Order of Melchisedec, by Robert Winkworth Norwood After Rain, by Archibald Lampman An Autumn Rain-Scene, by Thomas Hardy Brother Beasts, by Cale Young Rice A Character, by William Wordsworth Charge of the Light Bridge, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Dedication, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deliverance?, by Cale Young Rice The Door Stands Wide Open, by Hugh Black The Endless Lament, by John Gould Fletcher Epilogue to A Judgement in Heaven, by Francis Thompson Grace of the Way, by Francis Thompson Hail, Coffee!, by Jacques Delille The Half-breed, by Cale Young Rice Hope is the thing with feathers, by Emily Dickinson Horses, by Witter Bynner In Praise of Small People, by Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni Inversnaid, by Gerard Manley Hopkins Invictus, by William Ernest Henley I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth The Literary Lady, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Lo, the Press Agent, by Walter J. Kingsley The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot Men I'm Not Married To, by Dorothy Parker The Modern House that Jack Built, by Anonymous The Mother Who Died Too, by Edith M. Thomas My housemaid!, by Anonymous Oberon (Canto II excerpt), by Christoph Martin Wieland Ode, by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Ode On Solitude, by Alexander Pope On the letter I, by George Gordon, Lord Byron On the Wedding of the Aeronaut, by Ambrose Bierce Paul to Timothy, by Robert Winkworth Norwood The Pulley, by George Herbert Sappho, by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Sea Fever, by John Masefield The Selfsame Song, by Thomas Hardy Sonnet 21. He Congratulates Boccaccio On His Return To The Right Path, by Francesco Petrarca Spring Storm, by William Carlos Williams The Theatre Scrubwoman Dreams a Dream, by Samuel Hoffenstein There will come soft rains, by Sara Teasdale They, by Siegfried Sassoon They All Want to Play Hamlet, by Carl Sandburg To a Snowflake, by Francis Thompson To the Dog Star, by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio To the Thawing Wind, by Robert Frost Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Under the Stars, by John Richardson Wilkinson The War of Bread, by Edith M. Thomas A Woman in Winter Costume, by John Gould Fletcher

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 180
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:29

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 01 - After the Order of Melchisedec — 4:07
2. 02 - After Rain — 2:18
3. 03 - An Autumn Rain-Scene — 1:15
4. 04 - Brother Beasts — 1:30
5. 05 - A Character — 1:49
6. 06 - Charge of the Light Bridge — 2:03
7. 07 - Dedication — 2:33
8. 08 - Deliverance? — 2:27
9. 09 - The Door Stands Wide Open — 0:40
10. 10 - The Endless Lament — 0:47
11. 11 - Epilogue to A Judgement in Heaven — 2:23
12. 12 - Grace of the Way — 1:25
13. 13 - Hail, Coffee! — 1:25
14. 14 - The Half-breed — 2:19
15. 15 - Hope is the thing with feathers — 0:53
16. 16 - Horses — 0:33
17. 17 - In Praise of Small People — 2:46
18. 18 - Inversnaid — 1:12
19. 19 - Invictus — 0:50
20. 20 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud — 1:14
21. 21 - The Literary Lady — 1:38
22. 22 - Lo, the Press Agent — 3:31
23. 23 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — 6:30
24. 24 - Men I'm Not Married To — 1:49

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