The Sunlit Hours: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sunlit Hours, credited to Emile Verhaeren, 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 Sunlit Hours by Emile Verhaeren. (Translated by Charles R. Murphy.) Read in English by Sonia; Larry Wilson; Ian King; Sarah Partain; Amy Deuchler The Sunlit Hours [Les Heures Claires] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of love. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sunlit Hours
• Author credits: Emile Verhaeren
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 39:42

Catalogue topics

• love
• Belgium
• flanders
• rouen

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - O, the Splendour of this Joy of Ours — 1:08
2. 02 - What Tho' We See It Break Before Us Into Flowers — 1:16
3. 03 - This Carven Column Whereon Monsters Cling — 1:33
4. 04 - The Night, Unfolding, Banishes the Day — 1:12
5. 05 - Remembering Thy Gracious Gift to Me — 1:12
6. 06 - At Times Thou Art the Spacious Light and Air — 1:26
7. 07 - Oh, Let It Knock Upon Our Door — 1:19
8. 08 - I Have Given All My Heart to Thee — 1:28
9. 09 - The Youthful Spring with Wondrous Might — 1:23
10. 10 - Come Out Into the Garden Fair — 1:48
11. 11 - How Swiftly is She Caught in Ecstasy — 1:12
12. 12 - At That Time When in Loneliness I stood — 1:31
13. 13 - Of What Avail the Hectic Reasoning — 1:11
14. 14 - Quietly, Like Stately Queens of Old — 1:31
15. 15 - To All Thy Smiles and Tears — 1:21
16. 16 - I Bathe in Thy Two Eyes My Soul Entire — 1:26
17. 17 - That Love Within Our Eyes May Be — 1:06
18. 18 - Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways — 1:35
19. 19 - May Thy Dear Eyes, Thy Clear Eyes, Be — 0:53
20. 20 - Tell Me, Oh My Tranquil Friend — 1:02
21. 21 - In Those Hours When We Seem Shut Out — 1:05
22. 22 - Oh, This Happiness — 0:57
23. 23 - Oh, Let Us Live Out Love with All Our Powers — 1:11
24. 24 - No Sooner Lip to Lip, Than We Are Fraught — 1:30

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