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  Poems and Songs in the...

  Edwin Waugh

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  A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect poem, 'Come whoam to thi' childer and me', was written at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, on 10 June 1856 and published in the Manchester Examiner the following day. The best known Lancashire dialect poem of its day, it inspired numerous followers whose dialect poetry and prose provided an often nostalgic accompaniment to the sound and fury of the industrial revolution. This selection of dialect poems was published shortly after Waugh's death alongside a selection of his standard English poetry. It consists of the poems that editor George Milner judged to be presentable and is accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary on Waugh's use of the Rochdale variety of the Lancashire dialect. - Summary by Phil Benson

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  John Keats - The Poetry Of

  John Keats

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  John Keats – The Poetry Of.  Keats.  The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets.  A short life but a legacy of works that few if any can rival.  And of course his end was to be tragically romantic.  Keats was returning one night to his home in Hampstead when he coughed.  He coughed a single drop of blue blood upon his hand and said ‘I know the colour of that blood, it is arterial blood, it is my death warrant, I must die. And so it was that tuberculosis took its slow devastating hold.  He moved to Rome hoping the warmer climate would help but died at age 25 in 1821.  These poems are read for you by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  The Star Angel

  Jerry Robbins

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  On Christmas Eve, after Sean breaks one of the tree ornaments, a strange force shrinks both he and his sister Samantha down to ornament size.  They meet an Old St. Nicholas ornament who tells them that in order to return to their normal height, they must talk to the magical Star Angel who resides at the very top of the Christmas Tree - and they must do so before sunrise, when the magic that brings the ornaments to life fades away and will turn them into ornaments as well. With the aid of the Cookie Dough Man '66, Lighthouse, Sheriff and Pockets the tramp clown, they embark on a journey to the top of the tree. Blocking their way is the sinister Scrimshaw, a damaged ornament who lives on the "Empty Side" of the tree. Can they reach the Star Angel before first light?With delightful songs by Jeffrey Gage, The Star Angel is a holiday musical adventure that will warm your heart for many Christmas Eves to come.A Parents' Choice Recommended  Award Winner

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 15

  John Dryden, William Morris,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of John Dryden and William Morris as well as themes on Victorian Poetry, August, The Female Poet and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 15 
  John Dryden. An Introduction 
  Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden 
  Dreams by John Dryden 
  Alexanders Feast or The Power of Music by John Dryden 
  August 
  August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction. Volume 3 
  Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
  Expecting the Lord by Anne Griffiths  
  My Mother’s Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
  Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt 
  The Power of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
  The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  Sonnet by Amy Levy 
  Animal Poems – An Introduction 
  The Fly by William Blake 
  The City Mouse and the County Mouse by Christina Rossetti 
  The Owl & the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
  A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
  From Baby Tortoise by DH Lawrence 
  William Morris - An Introduction 
  The Earthly Paradise – Apology by William Morris 
  Our Hands Have Met by William Morris 
  The Voice of Toil by William Morris 
  A Garden By the Sea by William Morris 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
  Victorian Poetry - An Introduction 
  A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy  
  My Prayers Must met A Brazen Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins  
  When Summer’s End is Nighing by AE Housman  
  The Mother’s Son by Rudyard Kipling  
  The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear  
  Sonnet XXIX by George Meredith  
  Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley

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  Art and Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem, originally suggested by Betsie Bush, was chosen for this special collection due to a general concensus that the message of the poem corresponds with the spirit of LibriVox.The poem asserts that, “It is not art, but heart, that wins the wide world over.” And so it is with LibriVox: it is not only the books, the poetry, the literature that make LibriVox what it is; but it is also the people, the diversity of voices, and all of the different lives and experiences that affect the way a person reads a piece of text. The art is the foundation of LibriVox, but the many hearts behind it are the true essence and spirit of LibriVox.For more information on the the first anniversary of LibriVox, and to hear a one hour special audio program featuring interviews, bloopers, and samplers, please visit the Anniversary homepage: http://librivox.org/librivox-anniversary-2006/

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  The Song Against Songs

  G.K. Chesterton

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 16, 2011.Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 21 stone (130 kg; 290 lb). His girth gave rise to a famous anecdote. During World War I a lady in London asked why he was not 'out at the Front'; he replied, 'If you go round to the side, you will see that I am.' On another occasion he remarked to his friend George Bernard Shaw: "To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England". Shaw retorted, "To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it". P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin."( Summary from Wikipedia )

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