Short Poetry Collection 81: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Poetry Collection 81, 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:

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009. The Cataract of Lodore by Robert Southey (1774–1843) The Curse by John Donne (1572–1631) The Daughter of Mendoza by Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) Helen All Alone by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Hysteria by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) I Know An Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Once on a Time by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) On My First Son by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Ozymandius by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) The Promise of the Morning Star by Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Proverbs of Hell by William Blake (1757-1827) Quarrel by Elinor Morton Wylie née Hoyt (1885–1928) The Quest, by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost(1874-1963) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost(1874-1963) Song by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) To My Tortoise Chronos by Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907) When We Are All Asleep by Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901) When You are Old by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Which Shall It Be? By Ethyl Lynn Beers (1827-1879)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Poetry Collection 81
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 48:13

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem

Track guide

1. The Cataract of Lodore — 4:58
2. The Curse — 1:59
3. The Daughter of Mendoza — 1:43
4. Helen All Alone — 1:51
5. Hysteria — 1:13
6. I Know An Aged Man Constrained to Dwell — 2:38
7. Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull — 1:39
8. Miniver Cheevy — 1:31
9. Once on a Time — 1:22
10. On My First Son — 1:05
11. Ozymandius — 1:11
12. The Promise of the Morning Star — 1:36
13. Proverbs of Hell — 8:42
14. Quarrel — 0:59
15. The Quest — 2:11
16. The Road Not Taken — 1:42
17. The Road Not Taken — 1:35
18. Song — 1:25
19. Suicide in the Trenches — 0:50
20. To My Tortoise Chronos — 1:19
21. When We Were All Asleep — 1:37
22. When You Are Old — 1:03
23. Which Shall It Be? — 4:12

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