Songs Before Sunrise: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs Before Sunrise, credited to Algernon Charles Swinburne, 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 Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Read in English by Elizabeth P.; Simona Rusu; Nemo; Emma Charlotte; Matthew Squaire; Jim Nyenhuis; Sandra Schmit; Corrinne LePage; Patrick Wallace; Shana Burns; Pamela Nagami; Nelson Hay; Roman Noble; Phil Schempf This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs Before Sunrise
• Author credits: Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 5:08:11

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• Epic
• england
• Italy
• ballad
• 2017
• 1871

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Dedication to Joseph Mazzini — 2:26
2. 02 - Prelude — 9:38
3. 03 - The Eve of Revolution — 33:11
4. 04 - A watch in the Night — 10:19
5. 05 - Super Flumina Babylonis — 6:51
6. 06 - The halt before Rome — 14:12
7. 07 - Mentana - First Anniversary — 4:16
8. 08 - Blessed among Women — 9:59
9. 09 - The Litany of Nations — 10:02
10. 10 - Hertha — 12:22
11. 11 - Before a Crucifix — 11:46
12. 12 - Tenebrae — 7:15
13. 13 - Hymn of Man — 22:12
14. 14 - The Pilgrims — 5:45
15. 15 - Armand Barbès — 1:59
16. 16 - Quia Multum Amavit — 8:19
17. 17 - Genesis — 5:10
18. 18 - To Walt Whitman in America — 7:19
19. 19 - Christmas Antiphones — 8:50
20. 20 - A New Year’s Message — 2:35
21. 21 - Mater Dolorosa — 5:00
22. 22 - Mater Triumphalis — 9:09
23. 23 - A Marching Song — 9:28
24. 24 - Siena — 4:12

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