Publisher: Charles River Editors
Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement. Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history. This edition of The Vision of Judgement includes a table of contents.
This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), published in 1915 while World War I is in progress. Part of the work is in verse. Music sung by Duane Steadman. (Summary by David Wales)Show book
There are many things we can perhaps more easily say with flowers than with words. And flowers can say many things to us. So perhaps these poetic expressions of spoken words and flowery subject are a perfect match. Many would agree that there is one flower, the rose, that embodies both the human condition, its ambitions, its sacrifices and its symbolism of devoted love that together with its own peerless self; the beauty of its perfume, its hues and colours, its shapes and forms, from rambler and climber to the stately grace of a rose bed, and, of course, its thorns, to warn that consequences carry a price. Poets know that a rose is perhaps able to speak in many tongues on many subjects and it is therefore unsurprising that the rose is one of the great enduring symbols of the tradition in both Western and Eastern poetry. A rose can bring a tremble of the lip, or raise the beating of a heart. They can create a mood or simplify a feeling. Their message can be direct or nuanced but so often it is just perfect. Our classic poets from Hafiz, D H Lawrence, Robert Burns and Shakespeare, along with very many others, explore this beautiful living symbol with their exquisite lines and verse. 1 - Fifty Shades of Roses - An Introduction 2 - The Year of the Rose by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 4 - Rosa Rosarum by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 5 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson 6 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 7 - Rosa Mundi by Arthur Symons 8 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence 9 - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick 10 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 11 - To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington 12 - Gloire de Dijon by D H Lawrence 13 - Sonnet 130 - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun by William Shakespeare 14 - Sonnet 109 - O! Never Say That I Was False of Heart by William Shakespeare 15 - My Rose by Hildegarde Hawthorn 16 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 17 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 18 - Sonnet 54 - O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem by William Shakespeare 19 - Sonnet 99 - The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide by William Shakespeare 20 - In an Eastern Rosegarden by Pirani Ameena Begum 21 - Early Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke 22 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 23 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats 24 - The Rose by John Cournos 25 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson 26 - Amid the Roses by Alice Dunbar Nelson 27 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz 28 - A Flower Given to My Daughter by James Joyce 29 - To a Friend Who Sent Me Roses by John Keats 30 - The Sweets of the Rose by Hafiz 31 - A Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe 32 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 33 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 34 - Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies 35 - A Wild Rose by Alfred Austin 36 - June by Francis Ledwidge 37 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 38 - Virtue by George Herbert 39 - Summer in England, 1914 by Alice Meynell 40 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 41 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 42 - Written in September, 1804 by Christian Milne 43 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 44 - September by George Arnold 45 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti 46 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 47 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin 48 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 49 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 50 - Winter Sunset by KatharineShow book
This is a small volume of poems by Canadian women's rights activist and educator Mary Adams. - Summary by CarolinShow book
Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience." Even so, she left the setting as Germany.The play was first performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798, and was an immediate success: it ran for forty-two nights, "making it by some distance Covent Garden's most successful venture of that season," and went on to be performed in Bristol, Newcastle, Bath, and elsewhere. It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its "levelling" politics and moral ambiguity. Anne Plumptre, who translated Kotzebue's play as The Natural Son, wrote (perhaps not disinterestedly as the production of Inchbald's work effectively precluded the production of her own) that Inchbald had transformed the character of Amelia into a "forward country hoyden." Others, however, defended the morality of the play. And indeed, various characters indulge in considerable moralizing about charity, honour, and forgiveness. (Summary by wikipedia) Cast: Baron Wildenhaim, Countryman, and Prologue: Algy PugCount Cassel: John FrickerAnhalt and Narrator: AlanFrederick: Peter BishopVerdun the Butler and Epilogue: Ernst PattynamaLandlord: Martin GeesonCottager: David LawrenceFarmer: Dale BurgessGentleman: Ric FServant and Cottager's Wife: Amy GramourAgatha Firburg and Dramatis Personae: Sandra GAmelia Wildenhaim: Elizabeth BarrCountry Girl and Preface: rigbyjmNarrator: Paul AndrewsAudio edited by: Algy PugShow book
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the true secret of Guido's birth. His plan of revenge goes awry, however, when he falls in love with his enemy's beautiful wife, the Duchess of Padua. (Summary by Wikipedia and wildemoose)Cast:Simone Gesso, Duke of Padua; Hugo the Headsman: Algy PugBeatrice, Duchess of Padua: Arielle LipshawAndreas Pollajuolo, Cardinal of Padua: ToddHWMaffio Petrucci; Servant; First Soldier; Usher: Charlotte DuckettJeppo Vitellozzo; Count Moranzone: Martin GeesonTaddeo Bardi; Bernardo Cavalcanti, Lord Justice of Padua; Third Soldier: Elizabeth KlettGuido Ferranti: Max KörlingeAscanio Cristofano: Alan MapstoneLucy, a Tirewoman: April GonzalesFirst Citizen: KristingjSecond Citizen: CaprishaPageThird Citizen: GraceTipstaff; Second Soldier: Chuck WilliamsonNarrator: Ernst PattynamaAudio edited by Arielle LipshawShow book
Original poetry read by the author poet and short story writer Rachel Lawson on Allpoetry.comShow book
