The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time, credited to Henry van Dyke, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time by Henry van Dyke. Read in English by Ian King; Will Cooper; Gloria Fontaine; Newgatenovelist; Steve Britton; tovarisch; Emily Behrmann; Mary Myers; Jack Albert; Ren Adamant; John Burlinson These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task. Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Paper" and "Stand Fast," were written in 1914 and bore the signature Civis Americanus—the use of my own name at the time being impossible. Two others, "Lights Out" and "Remarks about Kings," were read for me by Robert Underwood Johnson at the meeting of the American Academy in Boston, November, 1915, at which I was unable to be present. The rest of the verses were printed after I had resigned my diplomatic post and was free to say what I thought and felt, without reserve. The "Interludes in Holland" are thoughts of the peaceful things that will abide for all the world after we have won this war against war. SYLVANORA, October 1, 1917. - Summary by Henry Van Dyke

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time
• Author credits: Henry van Dyke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 44:25

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• WWI
• war
• poems
• Germany
• Belgium
• WW1
• diest

Track guide

1. 01 - The Red Flower — 2:04
2. 02 - A Scrap of Paper — 1:27
3. 03 - Stand Fast — 1:29
4. 04 - Lights Out — 1:50
5. 05 - Remarks about Kings — 1:27
6. 06 - War-Music — 3:12
7. 07 - Might and Right — 0:39
8. 08 - The Price of Peace — 0:32
9. 09 - Storm Music — 3:06
10. 10 - The Bells of Malines — 4:06
11. 11 - The Name of France — 2:03
12. 12 - Jeanne D'Arc Returns — 1:29
13. 13 - The Heavenly Hills of Holland — 1:46
14. 14 - The Proud Lady — 3:23
15. 15 - Flood-Tide of Flowers — 2:00
16. 16 - America's Prosperity — 1:24
17. 17 - The Glory of Ships — 2:55
18. 18 - Mare Liberum — 2:15
19. 19 - 'Liberty Enlightening the World' — 2:34
20. 20 - The Oxford Thrushes — 2:01
21. 21 - Homeward Bound — 2:42

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