When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead, credited to Charles Hamilton Sorley, 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 volunteers bring you 13 recordings of "When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" by Charles Hamilton Sorley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 28, 2026. This week marks the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the deadliest battles in human history. Charles Hamilton Sorley did not fight there - he was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915 - but his untitled sonnet, published posthumously in 1916, became closely associated with the Somme because its stark rejection of empty patriotic remembrance resonated after the immense loss. - Summary by Rapunzelina.

Recording facts

• Recording title: When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead
• Author credits: Charles Hamilton Sorley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 16:58

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• death
• WWI
• war
• sonnet
• battle
• anniversary
• somme

Track guide

1. 01 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by BK — 1:25
2. 02 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by BLC — 1:17
3. 03 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by BWC — 1:15
4. 04 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by DC — 1:12
5. 05 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by DL — 1:21
6. 06 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by DLS — 1:21
7. 07 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by EL — 1:28
8. 08 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by JBW — 1:21
9. 09 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by LAH — 1:19
10. 10 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by PFS — 1:14
11. 11 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by PY — 1:17
12. 12 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by R — 1:13
13. 13 - When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - read by TL — 1:15

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