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  Fifty Shades of Marriage - 50 of...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer...

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  ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity.  From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us.  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution.  From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path.  Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Marriage - An Introduction 
  02 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 
  03 - Marriage Morning by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  04 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  05 - Wedding Day by Edith Nesbit 
  06 - Wedding Song by Jehudah Halevi 
  07 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  08 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell 
  09 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 
  10 - The Bride by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  11 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  12 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  13 - To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Phillips 
  14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  15 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  16 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare 
  17 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 
  18 - Sonnet to My Wife by Thomas Hood 
  19 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  20 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  21 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  22 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  24 - The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  25 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  26 - Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Bride by Henry Alford 
  28 - Bridal Birth by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  29 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  30 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 
  31 - Song XIX. Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore.sfk 
  32 - The Married Lover by Coventry Patmore 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay.sfk 
  33 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper.sfk 
  34 - Mutual Forebearance. Necessary to the Married State by William Cowper 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce.sfk 
  35 - Vice Vearsa by Ambrose Bierce 
  36 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  37 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 
  38 - Witch-Wife by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  39 - The Bride by Ambrose Bierce 
  40 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  41 - The Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe 
  42 - The Wife of Flanders by G K Chesterton 
  43 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - A Cry from an Indian Wife by Emily Pauline Johnson 
  45 - Wife to Husband by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  46 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September the 27th 1868 by Sidney Lanier 
  47 - On His Deceased Wife by John Milton 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron.sfk 
  48 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  49 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 
  50 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 
  51 - Divorce by Anna Wickham

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  The Poetry Of Amy Lowell

  Amy Lowell

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  The Poetry Of Amy Lowell. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we look at the works of the American poet Amy Lowell.  She was born into the prominent Lowell family in Brookline Massachusetts in 1874. Although her brother was to become President of Harvard she never entered college, her family considering it not proper for a woman. However she loved books and was an avid reader and collector. A socialite she travelled widely and first began to publish in 1910. Thought to be a lesbian the erotic themes within several of her poems are a wonderful loving tribute and exploration of her relationships. She published other poets and was working on a biography of the poet John Keats which brought forth the wonderful line "The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius”. In becoming a major figure in the Imagist movement she clashed with Erza Pound frequently. In 1925 she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51. The following year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for What's O'Clock. This volume of her poems is read by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  Armistice

  Sophie Jewett

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Armistice by Sophie Jewett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 1st, 2008.

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  What Color Is Goodness?

  Emily Morrison

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  Inspired by the question of her cartwheeling five-year-old niece, “Emmy, What Color is Goodness?,” this poem was written to help readers find goodness in the most unexpected places.First-time author EMILY MORRISON offers a vision of kindness, acceptance, and understanding in unsettled times within this beautiful poem, featuring the delightful illustrations of accomplished artist PAM MCDONNELL. The book is a discovery of the infinite colors of goodness and all the places where it can be found. In its exploration, the tale takes the reader through all the colors of the rainbow, delving inside brown boxes and ribboned packages, in dark grey spaces, and even deep inside all of us. Goodness is found while dancing wildly, singing joyfully and in quiet spaces with almost no color. Morrison hopes to transport readers to a world where poetry tells a powerful story that relates to audiences of all ages. She believes lyrical poetry has the power to inspire emotions that can create change. What Color Is Goodness? explores friendships, vulnerability, mindfulness, gratitude, acceptance, and community, lessons that connect all generations.

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  From The Temple

  George Herbert

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  George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever written.The soloistreads us a selection from this work(Summary by Caeristhiona)

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  The Secret Garden (NHB Modern...

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. Left to make her own entertainment, Mary stumbles upon a garden, overgrown and locked for years. A forbidden garden.
  Finding her way inside, with the help of a friendly robin, Mary begins to feel a connection to the house and its inhabitants. Then, one night, in one of the house's many rooms, she hears the sound of crying…
  Frances Hodgson Burnett's delightful and enduring tale celebrates the power of transformation and healing through nature. Elizabeth Newman's magical adaptation was premiered at Pitlochry Festival Theatre's open-air amphitheatre in 2023, where Newman is Artistic Director.
  This version will appeal to other professional and amateur companies looking for a much-loved classic that can be easily staged in theatres, outdoor venues – and gardens.
  'An enriching, affirmative show, steeped in gentle wonder' – The Stage
  'A near-perfect summer theatre experience for children… The Secret Garden is fast emerging as a key children's story for our time: a profound legend about how human beings need the natural world and its energy to survive and thrive… Newman's adaptation glows from its opening moments with love for, and understanding of, the basic dynamics of Hodgson Burnett's bold narrative… a beautiful show' – The Scotsman
  'Enrapturing… a tremendous fervour of pace… simply gorgeous… a thing of beauty' – Reviews Hub
  'Retains all the essentials of the original novel but brings in the whole thing at around 90 minutes, including an interval. It's appealingly crisp, which is helpful for the younger members of the audience, and it doesn't shun the novel's all-important use of Yorkshire dialect… a play that retains its own distinctive sense of charm' – WhatsOnStage
  'The perfect show for all the family… delights at every turn… a salve to the soul for grown ups in these troubled times and even better, the children in the audience clearly loved it' – Broadway Baby

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