Short Poetry Collection 182: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 182, 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 182 by Various. This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2018. It includes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson The character of Atticus, by Alexander Pope Constable M'Carty's Investigations, by Henry Lawson The Dancer at the Opera, by Vincent O'Sullivan Death of the Seasons, by Samuel C. Mercer Enough, by Sara Teasdale The Fairies' Concert, by Oliver Herford From Cambridge, by Edward Littleton, L.L.D. Guess, by Eugene Field The Happy Isles, by Eugene Field He Giveth His Beloved Sleep, by Andrew Barton Paterson Hymn to Adversity, by Thomas Gray I’ll tell you how the sun rose, by Emily Dickinson In the Reading Room of the British Museum, by Louise Imogen Guiney Is It Because I Am Black?, by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. The Joy of Little Things, by Robert W. Service The Lights of London, by Louise Imogen Guiney London, by William Blake At a Month's End, by Algernon Charles Swinburne Morning Song, by Eugene Field My star, by Robert Browning The Negro Singer, by James David Corrothers Ode to a Horseshoe, by Rossiter Johnson Ode to a Lighthouse at Malta, by Ángel María de Saavedra y Ramírez Past, Present and Future, by Ignatius Brennan The Place Where the Rainbow Ends, by Paul Laurence Dunbar Proof and Disproof, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Pupil In Magic, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Rat-Catcher, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Songs of the Love Unending, by Kendall Banning Sonnet XVIII, by William Shakespeare Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd, by William Shakespeare Sonnet LXXII, by Edmund Spenser Summer by the Lakeside, by John Greenleaf Whittier The Valley of the Shadow, by Edwin Arlington Robinson The Waggoner, by William Wordsworth What might have been, by Frederic Weatherly When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, by Walt Whitman When to the attractions of the busy world, by William Wordsworth A Winter’s Tale, by D. H. Lawrence

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 182
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 3:07:59

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 01 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol — 28:07
2. 02 - Because I could not stop for Death — 1:21
3. 03 - The character of Atticus — 2:08
4. 04 - Constable M'Carty's Investigations — 8:00
5. 05 - The Dancer at the Opera — 3:21
6. 06 - Death of the Seasons — 3:53
7. 07 - Enough — 0:41
8. 08 - The Fairies' Concert — 2:59
9. 09 - From Cambridge — 6:21
10. 10 - Guess — 1:50
11. 11 - The Happy Isles — 2:01
12. 12 - He Giveth His Beloved Sleep — 1:48
13. 13 - Hymn to Adversity — 2:45
14. 14 - I’ll tell you how the sun rose — 0:59
15. 15 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum — 1:15
16. 16 - Is It Because I Am Black? — 0:50
17. 17 - The Joy of Little Things — 2:11
18. 18 - The Lights of London — 1:18
19. 19 - London — 1:12
20. 20 - At a Month's End — 9:25
21. 21 - Morning Song — 1:23
22. 22 - My star — 0:55
23. 23 - The Negro Singer — 1:29
24. 24 - Ode to a Horseshoe — 1:36

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