The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, credited to Vachel Lindsay, 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 The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay. Read in English by Tony Addison; Ezwa; Newgatenovelist; Melissa Hoffman; Dini Steyn; Amabam; Alexandra Helms; Crystal Rogers; Larry Wilson; Diana Schmidt; Nancee Cline; Kathleen Moore; Kristin Gjerløw This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay. Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from this collection. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
• Author credits: Vachel Lindsay
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 1:40:22

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• New York

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - The Chinese Nightingale — 12:47
2. 02 - Where Is the Real Non-resistant? — 1:25
3. 03 - Here's to the Mice! — 1:06
4. 04 - When Bryan Speaks — 1:23
5. 05 - To Jane Addams at the Hague — 1:57
6. 06 - The Tale of the Tiger Tree — 10:56
7. 07 - The Merciful Hand — 1:05
8. 08 - Our Mother Pocahontas — 4:02
9. 09 - Concerning Emperors — 1:30
10. 10 - Niagara — 2:32
11. 11 - Mark Twain and Joan of Arc — 1:14
12. 12 - The Bankrupt Peace Maker — 3:46
13. 13 - 'This, My Song, is made for Kerensky' — 4:24
14. 14 - Our Guardian Angels and Their Children — 2:34
15. 15 - Epitaphs for Two Players — 4:25
16. 16 - Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress — 1:28
17. 17 - Two Old Crows — 1:51
18. 18 - The Drunkard's Funeral — 2:33
19. 19 - The Raft — 5:05
20. 20 - The Ghosts of the Buffaloes — 5:30
21. 21 - The Broncho that Would Not Be Broken — 3:08
22. 22 - The Prairie Battlements — 1:23
23. 23 - The Flower of Mending — 1:12
24. 24 - Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie — 1:20

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