Short Poetry Collection 181: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 181, 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 181 by Various. This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2018. It includes: The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey The Bride of Corinth, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Anster (1793-1867) The British Bather, by Anonymous Carpe Diem, by William Shakespeare Compensation, by Frances Ridley Havergal The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala, by Abu al-Ala Al-Ma'arri, translated by Henry Baerlein (1875-1960) The Gentlemen of Oxford, by Norah Mary Holland The Green Linnet, by William Wordsworth Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three-person'd God, by John Donne Immortality, by Matthew Arnold I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red, by Joseph Mary Plunkett I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth Kapiolani, by William Arthur Dunkerley Life in death, by Sarah Anne Curzon The Man Who Thinks He Can, by Walter D. Wintle New York, by Arthur Cravan The Night Journey, by Rupert Brooke On the Farm, by Madison Cawein On Time, by John Milton Paris: A Poem, by Hope Mirrlees Paths, by Madison Cawein Penmaenmawr, by Branwell Brontë The Philosopher, by Emily Brontë Real Rest, by Branwell Brontë Recuerdo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay Remembered Light, by Clark Ashton Smith Second Sight, by Madison Cawein The Son of Melancholy, by Walter De la Mare The Spider, by William Ellery Channing That I did always love, by Emily Dickinson The very best zoo of all, by Gaston V. Drake When a lover hies abroad, by Rudyard Kipling When The Army Prays For Watty, by Henry Lawson Yellow Jessamine, by Constance Fenimore Woolson You Don't Believe, by William Blake

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 181
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:27

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - The Battle of Blenheim — 2:10
2. 02 - The Bride of Corinth — 9:19
3. 03 - The British Bather — 1:25
4. 04 - Carpe Diem — 0:54
5. 05 - Compensation — 5:00
6. 06 - The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala — 30:33
7. 07 - The Gentlemen of Oxford — 1:40
8. 08 - The Green Linnet — 2:19
9. 09 - Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three-person'd God — 1:10
10. 10 - Immortality — 1:18
11. 11 - I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red — 1:23
12. 12 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud — 1:31
13. 13 - Kapiolani — 12:25
14. 14 - Life in death — 1:01
15. 15 - The Man Who Thinks He Can — 1:10
16. 16 - New York — 1:02
17. 17 - The Night Journey — 2:16
18. 18 - On the Farm — 2:16
19. 19 - On Time — 1:15
20. 20 - Paris: A Poem — 24:11
21. 21 - Paths — 3:04
22. 22 - Penmaenmawr — 5:54
23. 23 - The Philosopher — 3:11
24. 24 - Real Rest — 3:41

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