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  Youth's Spring-Tribute

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Youth's Spring-Tribute by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry Poetry project for April 15, 2012.Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Valley of the Squinting Windows

  Brinsley McNamara

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  Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914–16 in Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business.
  
  
  Twenty years before the events of the book, Nan Byrne has a relationship with a local man, Henry Shannon, hoping to marry him for his wealth. She falls pregnant but Henry refuses to marry her. After a miscarriage, the baby is buried at the bottom of the garden. Henry marries another woman and later dies, while Nan herself emigrates to England and marries Ned Brennan. They later move back to Garradrimna, where the villagers rejoice in telling Ned about his wife's past.
  
  
  Ned is brought low by the humiliation of his wife's past promiscuity. He drinks and makes a little as a labourer, whereas Nan works every day at sewing to support their only child, John, studying in England to become a Catholic priest. However, she becomes as cruel, petty, and jealous as the rest of Garradrimna, conniving with the postmistress to sabotage Myles Shannon's chance at romance with an English girl, to get revenge on the Shannon family for rejecting her.
  
  
  Her son John returns to Garradrimna for a holiday, where he befriends Ulick Shannon (son of Henry) and falls for Rebecca Kerr, a schoolteacher. Ulick and Rebecca have a relationship however, and when Rebecca becomes pregnant she is disgraced and expelled from the village. Ulick abandons her and John murders him, weighing the body with lead and hiding it in the lake. Rebecca leaves for Dublin and an uncertain future. An old gossip informs Nan and John that she witnessed the night Nan gave birth to Henry's child – in reality, the child was born alive and was given to Henry and his wife – who they raised as their son, Ulick Shannon.

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  The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich

  Arthur Hugh Clough

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  The Poetry of WB Yeats

  William Butler Yeats

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  Forty of William Butler Yeats' finest poems.

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  Coming to the King

  Frances Ridley Havergal

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  A collection of poems by Frances Ridley Havergal and others, all describing different aspects of our walk with God, from 'Coming to the King' to 'Under the Shadow.' Summary by Esther ben Simonides.

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  Robert Louis Stevenson: A Poetry...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Stevenson.  In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns is high praise indeed but it’s a rightful place for one of Scotland’s finest novelists and here, poets.  Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44 years travelling widely to France, The States, Samoa and the South Seas.  Of course he is widely feted for his classics Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde, Treasure Island and poetry volumes such as A Child’s Garden Of Verses. This volume is eclectic and encompassing and is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Tim Graham and Ghizela Rowe.  The poems are; Robert Louis Stevenson - An Introduction; To; Home No More Home To Me; Where Go The Boats; Foreign Lands; A Song Of The Road; The Vagabond; The Canoe Speaks; St Martins Summer; Pirate Story; Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest; From A Railway Carriage; Men Are Heavens Piers; Travel; Fair Isle At Sea; Christmas At Sea; I Who All The Winter Through; Plain As The Glistering Planets; In The Green And Gallant Spring; Summer Sun; The Gardener; Dedicatory Poem For 'Underwoods'; Not I; The Cow; The Old Chimaeras Old Receipts; Bed In Summer; The Summer Sun Shone Round Me; Autumn Fires; Windy Nights; The Celestial Surgeon; I Do Not Fear To Own Me Kin; Fear Not Dear Friend But Freely Live Your Days; To My Mother; To Dr Hake; We Have Loved Of Yore; A Valentines Song; To Princess Kaiulani; I Will Make You Brooches And Toys For Your Delight; Youth And Love 1&2; Voluntary; God Gave To Me A Child In Part; Fixed Is The Doom; Winter; Moral Emblems Part 1; Moral Emblems Part 2; The Land Of Nod

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