Short Poetry Collection 184: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 184, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 184 by Various. This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018. It includes: Auguries of Innocence, an excerpt, by William Blake Autumn Woods, by William Cullen Bryant Avila, by George Santayana Bury me in a free land, by Frances E. W. Harper Buttercups and Daisies, by Eliza Cook Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, by Beatrix Potter Clair de Lune, by Arthur Symons Crossing the Bar, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Diamonds, by Arthur Symons Dining-Room Tea, by Rupert Brooke Dirge for an Infant, by Leigh Hunt Discovered, by Paul Laurence Dunbar Fleurette, by Robert W. Service The Forgotten Lay, by Therese Kellner Keiter Ghosts Gathering, by Louis Golding The Giver of Stars, by Amy Lowell A Guide For Poits, by C. J. Dennis I Hear the Stars Still Singing, by James Weldon Johnson Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick, by William Wordsworth In Shakespeare's Walk, by William Thompson Love Song, by William Carlos Williams The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot The Melancholy Lover to His Mistress, by Leigh Hunt My Soul Is Like an Enchanted Boat, by Percy Bysshe Shelley No Fees, by Anonymous A Nuptiall Verse to Mistresse Elizabeth Lee, now Lady Tracie, by Robert Herrick O Black and Unknown Bards, by James Weldon Johnson Old, by Paul Laurence Dunbar The Orphan Ballad-Singers, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Pauper's Funeral, by Robert Southey The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe Sleep, by Arthur Symons Sonnet 73, by William Shakespeare Surprised by joy - impatient as the Wind, by William Wordsworth The Temple of Nature (excerpt), by Erasmus Darwin The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To T.L.H., by Leigh Hunt Town, by John Collings Squire

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 184
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Auguries of Innocence, an excerpt — 2:39
2. 02 - Autumn Woods — 2:35
3. 03 - Avila — 3:43
4. 04 - Bury me in a free land — 2:22
5. 05 - Buttercups and Daisies — 3:06
6. 06 - Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes — 1:58
7. 07 - Clair de Lune — 1:44
8. 08 - Crossing the Bar — 0:56
9. 09 - Diamonds — 1:03
10. 10 - Dining-Room Tea — 4:23
11. 11 - Dirge for an Infant — 1:25
12. 12 - Discovered — 1:30
13. 13 - Fleurette — 5:05
14. 14 - The Forgotten Lay — 1:17
15. 15 - Ghosts Gathering — 3:18
16. 16 - The Giver of Stars — 1:03
17. 17 - A Guide For Poits — 5:47
18. 18 - I Hear the Stars Still Singing — 0:48
19. 19 - Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick — 1:41
20. 20 - In Shakespeare's Walk — 1:22
21. 21 - Love Song — 0:53
22. 22 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock — 6:34
23. 23 - The Melancholy Lover to His Mistress — 1:09
24. 24 - My Soul Is Like an Enchanted Boat — 2:29

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