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  Short Poetry Collection 012

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  The Poetry of Algeron Charles...

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on April 5th, 1837, in London, into a wealthy Northumbrian family.  He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, but did not complete a degree.  
  In 1860 Swinburne published two verse dramas but achieved his first literary success in 1865 with Atalanta in Calydon, written in the form of classical Greek tragedy. The following year "Poems and Ballads" brought him instant notoriety. He was now identified with "indecent" themes and the precept of art for art's sake.  
  Although he produced much after this success in general his popularity and critical reputation declined. The most important qualities of Swinburne's work are an intense lyricism, his intricately extended and evocative imagery, metrical virtuosity, rich use of assonance and alliteration, and bold, complex rhythms.  
  Swinburne's physical appearance was small, frail, and plagued by several other oddities of physique and temperament. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s he drank excessively and was prone to accidents that often left him bruised, bloody, or unconscious. Until his forties he suffered intermittent physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents' home while he recovered.  
  Throughout his career Swinburne also published literary criticism of great worth. His deep knowledge of world literatures contributed to a critical style rich in quotation, allusion, and comparison. He is particularly noted for discerning studies of Elizabethan dramatists and of many English and French poets and novelists. As well he was a noted essayist and wrote two novels. 
  In 1879, Swinburne's friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney and gradually weaned him from alcohol, former companions and many other habits as well.  
  Much of his poetry in this period may be inferior but some individual poems are exceptional; "By the North Sea," "Evening on the Broads," "A Nympholept," "The Lake of Gaube," and "Neap-Tide."  
  Swinburne lived another thirty years with Watts-Dunton. He denied Swinburne's friends access to him, controlled the poet's money, and restricted his activities. It is often quoted that 'he saved the man but killed the poet'.  
  Swinburne died on April 10th, 1909 at the age of seventy-two. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Selected Works: Poems

  Voltairine De Cleyre

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  Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected poems. (Summary by enko)

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  Fifty Shades of Nature - 50 of...

  John Clare, Gerard Manley...

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  Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature.  The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night. 
   
  Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.  
   
  Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone.  Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies.  Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
  6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  9 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy 
  11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
  12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
  25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
  28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
  29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot 
  33 - Seashore by Tagore 
  34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron 
  35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth 
  37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  40 - Sonnet 33 - Full  Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare 
  41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman 
  42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
  48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns 
  50 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  51 - The Tyger by William Blake

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  The Canterville Ghost - A...

  Bleak December, Oscar Wilde

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  Colin Baker (Doctor Who) stars in this delightful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the ghost who has lost his knack at haunting.When a modern American family moves into an old English manor with a sinister history, they ignore the warnings and hauntings by the house's fearful, cantankerous, spectral inhabitant...Horror and hilarity will ensue in this timeless, family-friendly entertainment — featuring a full cast, sound effects, and an original musical score.

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  The Taxi

  Amy Lowell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Taxi by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)

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