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  The Phoenix and the Turtle The...

  William Shakespeare

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  The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding, performed to perfection by Gerard Logan. Highly praised for his performance of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, AUK Classics now bring you a wonderful set of readings from Olivier Award nominated actor Gerard Logan. This collection of readings will delight and enthrall in equal measure, and will appeal to many people, from casual listeners to true Shakespare fans. It may also be seen as a masterclass for aspiring performers, and will enhance any audiobook collection.

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  Short Poetry Collection 119

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2013.

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  15 Minutes Of Love Poems -...

  William Morris, Wilfred Owen,...

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  Love. What is love? 
   
  The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. 
   
  Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. 
   
  Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another. 
   
  Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love. 
   
  Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart. 
   
  01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 9 - The Good Morrow & Other Poems 
  02 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  03 - Morning Song of Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  04 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  05 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 
  06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  07 - Love is Enough by William Morris 
  08 - In Love by Rabia al Basri 
  09 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  10 - To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick 
  11 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton

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  The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from.  
   
  From ten it became a little more stable when he was dispatched for a traumatic year to the Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California before graduating from the Summerville Academy in Augusta, Georgia and thence to Yale University, at age 17, where he quickly established himself in its deep literary traditions.  He edited as well as contributed a selection of light verse to the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record, and gave freely and generously of his time thereafter to keep Yale producing new literary talents.  
   
  Prodigiously his first book was published at 17 and for he obtained his M.A. in English when he submitted a poetry volume as his thesis. 
   
  Whilst travelling in France, in the early 20s, he met and quickly married a fellow writer and poet, Rosemary Carr.  She would also collaborate with him on several works.  In Paris he wrote the book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ‘John Brown's Body’, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 
   
  Benét was immensely gifted. A mere glance at his literary CV dazzles with literary gems.  Some of his poems seem to foretell both the rise of machines and of Fascism.  He won the O’Henry Award on three occasions, for his short stories as well as an incredible four Pulitzers; two for poetry and two for short stories.  Add in his several novels, speech-writing, radio scripts and various other pursuits and you have some measure of the man.  
   
  In 1930, Benét was hit with debilitating attacks of arthritis of the spine which made the rest of his life one of much pain and discomfort. 
   
  Stephen Vincent Benét died in his wife’s arms on 13th March 1943 of a heart attack in New York City. He was 44.  
   
  He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an ambitious and projected five, six or nine book narrative poem (there are various accounts of its projected length) on the settling of the United States, for which he only finished the first book. 
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  1 - The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét - An Introduction 
  2 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  3 - Difference by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  4 - Music by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  5 - The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  6 - Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  7 - The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  8 - Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  9 - Nightmare Number 3 by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  10 - The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  11 - For City Lovers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  12 - The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  13 - Rain After A Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  14 - Minor Litany by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  15 - Days Pass, Men Pass by by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  16 - For All Blasphemers by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  17 - Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  18 - Judgement by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  19 - Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  20 - Litany for Dictatorships by Stephen Vinvcent Benét 
  21 - The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  22 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  23 - Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  24 - Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  25 - Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  26 - Campus Sonnets by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  27 - Elegy For An Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benét 
  28 - Architects by Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Prometheus Bound

  Aeschylus

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  Prometheus Bound is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is comforted by his knowledge of a way to bring about the downfall of Jupiter. (Summary by Libby Gohn) Cast:Narrator: Charlotte DuckettPrometheus: Jason MillsChorus of Nymphs, daughters of Ocean: Elizabeth KlettStrength: Bob NeufeldVulcan: Alan MapstoneOcean: Amanda FridayIo: AvailleMercury: balaAudio edited by: Libby Gohn

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  Short Poetry Collection 058

  Various Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 058: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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