Short Poetry Collection 185: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 185, 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 185 by Various. This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2018. It includes: Alaric at Rome, read by Matthew Arnold Epitaphs on Mrs. Oldfield, read by Anonymous The Arctic Voyager, read by Henry Timrod Auf dem Heimweg, read by Mary Keely Boutelle The ballad of departed pippins, read by Anonymous The Battle of Lora (excerpt), read by James Macpherson A Blood-Red Ring Hung round the Moon, read by John E. Logan A Boy's Song, read by James Hogg Circe, read by Hilda Doolittle The Comet, read by Charles Sangster Credo, read by Alfred Kreymborg Sonnet - Death be not Proud, read by John Donne The Dread Voyage, read by William Wilfred Campbell Friendship After Love, read by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Fringford Brook, read by Violet Jacob Gerontion, read by T. S. Eliot La Figlia Che Piange, read by T. S. Eliot A Melody, read by Rabindranath Datta Miserrimus, read by Richard Henry Stoddard An Ocean-Scene, read by Rabindranath Datta October, read by Paul Laurence Dunbar Pan the Fallen, read by William Wilfred Campbell Parson Gray, read by Oliver Goldsmith Pharsalia, an excerpt, read by A Prothalamium, read by Rabindranath Datta A Psalm of Life, read by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Skeleton in Armour, read by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Song, read by William Davenant Sonnet CXXX, read by William Shakespeare Sonnet on taking a favourite walk, after recovery from sickness, read by Thomas Oldham Testament, read by Francis Brett Young Testimony Regarding a Ghost, read by Carl Sandburg Thanatopsis, read by William Cullen Bryant Ulysses, read by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Were-Wolves, read by William Wilfred Campbell

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 185
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 1:34:42

Catalogue topics

• poetry collection
• short poetry
• long poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Alaric at Rome — 14:41
2. 02 - Epitaphs on Mrs. Oldfield — 1:03
3. 03 - The Arctic Voyager — 2:38
4. 04 - Auf dem Heimweg — 1:13
5. 05 - The ballad of departed pippins — 2:02
6. 06 - The Battle of Lora (excerpt) — 4:16
7. 07 - A Blood-Red Ring Hung round the Moon — 1:28
8. 08 - A Boy's Song — 1:30
9. 09 - Circe — 2:12
10. 10 - The Comet — 2:42
11. 11 - Credo — 0:55
12. 12 - Sonnet - Death be not Proud — 1:12
13. 13 - The Dread Voyage — 2:09
14. 14 - Friendship After Love — 1:05
15. 15 - Fringford Brook — 2:02
16. 16 - Gerontion — 4:50
17. 17 - La Figlia Che Piange — 1:49
18. 18 - A Melody — 0:43
19. 19 - Miserrimus — 1:47
20. 20 - An Ocean-Scene — 0:48
21. 21 - October — 1:44
22. 22 - Pan the Fallen — 3:11
23. 23 - Parson Gray — 1:32
24. 24 - Pharsalia, an excerpt — 4:03

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