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Title: Poems to Make You Cry

Author: Emily Dickenson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Shakespeare

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Tears. Sometimes our greatest comfort. Often our darkest fear that we are about to be overwhelmed by sudden and uncontrollable feelings.From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes. There is something primordial in their arrival. We may be the only animal to actually cry and scientists in their wish to explain everything cite the simultaneous release of endorphins to help relieve the emotional stress, the physical pain, as vital to restore the sense of calm and well-being. But not everything can be explained and pigeon-holed with certainty.Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost. From Owen and Dickenson to Wheatly and Hopkins our surrender to tears may not be far away. 1 - Poems to Make You Cry - An Introduction2 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman3 - Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare4 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy5 - So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron6 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats7 - Sonnet 90 - Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now by William Shakespeare8 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale9 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis10 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones11 - Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris12 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele13 - How Sweet I Roam'd From Field to Field by William Blake14 - When I Have Fears by John Keats15 - The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold16 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar17 - I Am by John Clare18 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox19 - Ode XIV - To Solitude by Joseph Warton20 - Solitude by Harold Munro21 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker22 - A Thought For a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning23 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe24 - Piano by D H Lawrence25 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken26 - Sonnet 66. Tired With All These, For Restful Death by William Shakespeare27 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar28 - No Worse There is None. Pitched Past, Pitch of Grief by Gerard Manley Hopkins29 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill-Finch30 - Melancholia by Robert Seymour Bridges31 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde32 - The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood33 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay34 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier35 - The Lynching by Claude McKay36 - Poems on the Slave Trade. Sonnet VI by Robert Southey37 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton38 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper39 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow40 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon41 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen42 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney43 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae44 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger45 - Fallen by Alice Corbin46 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas47 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wildred Owen48 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling49 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa50 - Bereavement In Their Death To Feel by Emily Dickinson51 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte52 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington53 - Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow by Christina Rossetti54 - A Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew55 - To One in Grief by Katharine Tynan56 - I Measure Every Grief by Emily Dickinson57 - Tears Idle Tears from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson58 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe59 - Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous60 - John Barleycorn, A Ballad by Robert Burns61 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan62 - Remember by Christina Rossetti63 - Epitaph Upon a Child That Died by Robert Herrick64 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley65 - On the Death of a Child by Edward Silvera66 - On My First Son by Ben Jonson67 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar68 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham

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Title: The Poetry of W B Yeats

Author: W B Yeats

Narrator: Jordan Gallagher, Kelly O'doherty, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865.His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as 'entirely Un-Irish'. With Ernest Rhys he founded the Rhymers Club. Based at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street it's best described as a drinking club for performing poets. Yeats later cited them as 'The Tragic Generation'. By now Yeats was writing and publishing poetry and stories that were profoundly based in Irish folklore. Yeats is perhaps best described as Ireland's national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue. He represents the 'Romantic poet of modernism,' with an extraordinary style created from the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions. In 1923 his fame was brought to an even wider audience when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His personal life was driven by his many relationships in love and by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism. Yeats also wrote prose and drama and, as an ardent Nationalist, established himself as a spokesman of the Irish cause and served as an Irish senator for two terms. W B Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28th January 1939. He was 73.In modern times his contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable. His sumptuous poetry elegantly envelopes the reader in a world very few can articulate but all know well. A legacy for everyone1 - The Poetry of W B Yeats - An Introduction2 - A Man Young and Old - I - First Love by W B Yeats3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity by W B Yeats4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid by W B Yeats5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare by W B Yeats6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup by W B Yeats7 - A Man Young and Old - VI - His Memories8 - A Man Young and Old - VII - The Friends of His Youth9 - A Man Young and Old - VIII - Summer and Spring10 - A Man Young and Old - IX - The Secrets of the Old11 - A Man Young and Old - X - His Wildness12 - A Man Young and Old - XI - From 'Oedipus at Colonus'13 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats14 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W B Yeats15 - The Mother of God by W B Yeats16 - Among School Children by W B Yeats17 - The Stolen Child by W B Yeats18 - Long-Legged Fly by W B Yeats19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats21 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats22 - Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats23 - The Cat and the Moon by W B Yeats24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone by W B Yeats25 - Imitated From The Japanese by W B Yeats26 - All Things Can Tempt Me by W B Yeats27 - A Statesman's Holiday by W B Yeats28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult by W B Yeats29 - A Drinking Song by W B Yeats30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus by W B Yeats33 - The Travail of Passion by W B Yeats34 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W B Yeats36 - Down by the Salley Gardens by W B Yeats37 - Quarrel in Old Age by W B Yeats38 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats39 - Under Saturn by W B Yeats40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times by W B Yeats41 - I Am of Ireland by W B Yeats42 - The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats43 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - I - Ancestral Homes by W B Yeats44 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - II - My House by W B Yeats45 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - III - My Table by W B Yeats46 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - IV - My Descendants by W B Yeats47 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - V - The Road at My Door by W B Yeats48 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window by W B Yeats49 - Meditations in Time of Civil War - VII - I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's by W B Yeats50 - From A Full Moon in March - Parnells Funeral by W B Yeats51 - Easter 1916 by W B Yeats52 - Come Gather Round Me, Parnelites by W B Yeats53 - September 1913 by W B Yeats54 - The Ghost of Roger Casement by W B Yeats55 - The Apparitions by W B Yeats56 - Sixteen Dead Men by W B Yeats57 - An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by W B Yeats58 - He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven by W B Yeats59 - He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by W B Yeats60 - Men Improve with the Years by W B Yeats61 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats62 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats63 - The Wheel by W B Yeats64 - Sailing To Byzantium by W B Yeats65 - Death by W B Yeats

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Title: The Silver Poets

Author: Michael Drayton, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Wyatt

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements.Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets.This select band lived during the sixteenth century reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st. Amongst their storied ranks were Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Davies, Michael Drayton and Mary Sidney (Herbert), the Countess of Pembroke.The theme The Silver Poets most often took to their pens was Love. Their offerings on the subject came in many poetic forms from the beginning of the English renaissance till the end of the Elizabethan Age. In this regard it broke with previous approaches and re-identified this complex emotion in new ways.Allied to this these poets spoke on many subjects, including faith and politics, in new ways against a background of a century riven by religious conflicts as it turned from the suffocating and corrupt Catholic faith to welcome, and at times reject, the purer form of Protestantism. Across Europe new ideas brought turmoil, the threat of invasion, new expressions of art and many other elements to these shores.It was also an age when England began to confidently survey the horizon and look to a future that promised much, including a golden age of literature, and fleets venturing overseas in search of trade, dominions and ideas.1 - The Silver Poets - An Introduction2 - My Lute Awake by Sir Thomas Wyatt3 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt4 - And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus by Sir Thomas Wyatt5 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberances of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt6 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt7 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey8 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey9 - The Fraility and Hurtfulness of Beauty by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey10 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh11 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh12 - Farewell To The Court by Sir Walter Raleigh13 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney14 - Ode by Sir Philip Sidney15 - Sonnet I from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney16 - Leave Me O Love by Sir Philip Sidney17 - The Smokes of Melancholy by Sir Philip Sidney18 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke19 - O by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke20 - O Lord in Me There Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke21 - To My Most Dearly Beloved Friend by Michael Drayton22 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton23 - The Ballad Of Agincourt by Michael Drayton24 - Glastonbury from Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton 25 - Woodstock. Rosamond to King Henry by Michael Drayton26 - Sonnet I by Sir John Davies27 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies28 - Man by Sir John Davies

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Title: The Poetry of Katharine Tynan

Author: Katharine Tynan

Narrator: Tanya Thomson, Kelly O'doherty, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Katherine Tynan was born on January 23rd 1859 into a large farming family in Clondalkin, County Dublin, and educated at a convent school in Drogheda. In her early years she suffered from eye ulcers, which left her somewhat myopic. She first began to have her poems published in 1878. A great friend to Gerard Manley Hopkins and to WB Yeats (who it is rumoured proposed marriage but was rejected). With Yeats to encourage her, her poetry blossomed and she was equally supportive of his. She married fellow writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson in 1898. They moved to England where she bore and began to raise 5 children although two were to tragically die in infancy. In 1912 they returned to Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was appointed magistrate there from 1912 until 1919. Sadly her husband died that year but Katherine continued to write. Her output was prolific, some sources have her as the author of almost a 100 novels. Here we concentrate on her poetry. Amongst the classics such as 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' are numerous war poems. She is now sometimes grouped amongst the War Poets of the First World War. Her experience was not direct but as a Mother with one son serving in France and another in Palestine, the emotions, fears and doubts are expressed in a beautiful heart-felt way. Katharine died on April 2nd 1931 and she is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.1 - The Poetry of Katherine Tynan - An Introduction2 - Any Woman by Katharine Tynan3 - The Nurse by Katharine Tynan4 - The Only Child by Katharine Tynan 5 - Alienation by Katharine Tynan6 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan7 - Any Mother by Katharine Tynan8 - The Only Son by Katharine Tynan9 - The Father by Katharine Tynan10 - The Summons by Katharine Tynan11 - Joining the Colours by Katharine Tynan12 - The Aerodrome by Katharine Tynan13 - Flower of Youth by Katharine Tynan14 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan15 - The Predestined by Katharine Tynan16 - A Hero by Katharine Tynan17 - Mid the Piteous Heap of Dead by Katharine Tynan18 - The Weeping Babe by Katharine Tynan19 - All Souls by Katharine Tynan20 - No Man's Land by Katharine Tynan21 - The Old Soldier by Katharine Tynan22 - Salutation by Katharine Tynan23 - Wings in the Night by Katharine Tynan24 - The Great Sorrow by Katharine Tynan25 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan26 - They Who Return by Katharine Tynan27 - Quiet Eyes by Kathaine Tynan28 - The Refuge by Katharine Tynan29 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan30 - A Song of Spring by Katharine Tynan31 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan32 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan33 - Easter by Katharine Tynan34 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan35 - A Gardener Sage by Katharine Tynan36 - The Bird's Bargain by Katharine Tynan37 - St Francis and the Birds by Katharine Tynan38 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan39 - Blessings by Katharine Tynan40 - A Song for the New Year by Katherine Tynan41 - Mater Dei by Katharine Tynan42 - Immortality by Katharine Tynan43 - The Epitipah by Katharine Tynan

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Title: The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge

Author: Francis Ledwidge

Narrator: Kelly O'doherty, Stephen Hogan, Eve Karpf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education. At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already desperately poor, were forced into work and by 13 the young Ledwidge took whatever job was to hand-from farm hand to road labourer. Throughout this time he applied himself to his poetry writing whenever and wherever he could. His poems were published on a regular basis from the age of 14 in the Drogheda Independent, his local paper.Ledwidge was an ardent Nationalist and was well known for his Sinn Fein and trade union activism. This association got him fired from his job at the Slane copper mines, for organising a strike for better working conditions, but prompted his appointment as the Secretary to the Slane branch of the Meath Labour Union. As a poet Ledwidge found patronage from Lord Dunsany who was well known in literary circles and was offered regular funds if he did not fight in World War I. Ledwidge was originally opposed to the War but then, seeing the greater injustice of an enslaved Europe, changed his view and enlisted and fought for Lord Dunsany's regiment, part of the 10th Irish Division. He thrived in the army finding promotion, happy to be serving Ireland and continuing to write but on 31st July 1917, whilst road laying for the Battle of Ypres, a German artillery shell exploded and he was blown to pieces. He was 29. Francis Ledwidge, the patriot and nationalist has been called 'The Soldier Poet', 'The Peasant Poet' and the 'Poet of the Blackbird'1 - The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge - An Introduction2 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge3 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge4 - At Currabwee by Francis Ledwidge5 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge6 - Nocturne by Francis Ledwidge7 - The Sylph by Francis Ledwidge8 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge9 - Evening in England by Francis Ledwidge10 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge11 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge12 - Thoughts at the Trysting Stile by Francis Ledwidge13 - Evening in May by Francis Ledwidge14 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge15 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge16 - Behind the Closed Eye by Francis Ledwidge17 - The Visitation of Peace by Francis Ledwidge18 - To My Best Friend by Francis Ledwidge19 - In the Dusk by Francis Ledwidge20 - In a Cafe by Francis Ledwidge21 - Lady Fair by Francis Ledwidge22 - Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge23 - Old Clo by Francis Ledwidge24 - The Maid in Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge25 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge26 - To One Weeping by Francis Ledwidge27 - Youth by Francis Ledwidge28 - Had I a Golden Pound (After the Irish) by Francis Ledwidge29 - The Lanawn Shee by Francis Ledwidge30 - Fairies by Francis Ledwidge31 - The Little Children by Francis Ledwidge32 - A Fairy Hunt by Francis Ledwidge33 - Pan by Francis Ledwidge34 - The Find by Francis Ledwidge35 - The Shadow People by Francis Ledwidge36 - Bound to the Mast by Francis Ledwidge37 - To One Who Comes Now and Then by Francis Ledwidge38 - To an Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's by Francis Ledwidge39 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge40 - Waiting by Francis Ledwidge41 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge42 - The Dead Kings by Francis Ledwidge43 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge44 - An Old Pain by Francis Ledwidge45 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge46 - To One Dead by Francis Ledwidge47 - Soliloquy by Francis Ledwidge48 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge49 - At a Poet's Grave by Francis Ledwidge

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Title: The Poetry of James Joyce

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Kelly O'doherty, David Shaw-Parker, Stephen Hogan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 52 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblingsAdmired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools of Clongowes and Belvedere. From there he went on to attend University College Dublin from 1898, studying English, French and ItalianIn 1902, Joyce was now in his early twenties, and went to Paris to study Medicine but soon abandoned his teachings. Back in Dublin to attend to his dying Mother he met Nora Barnacle. They bonded immediately into a life-long match. Together they decided to emigrate to Europe. The couple lived in Trieste, Rome, Paris, and finally Zürich where Joyce pursued a variety of jobs and ventures to supplement his literary pursuits but none of these paid off. After publishing a poetry volume, 'Chamber Music', in 1907, his short story collection 'The Dubliners', in 1914, helped establish his talent in the rapidly changing world. Although far from home Joyce's literary heart and works were set in his recollections of Dublin. Characters are close resemblances of family and friends and indeed enemies. His landmark work 'Ulysses', published in 1922, is set in the streets and alleyways of the city as it parallels Homer's Odyssey in a variety of styles including its famed stream of consciousness.His pen continued to produce classics of the order of 'A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man' and 'Finnegan's Wake' together with several volumes of poetry and a play 'The Exiles, in 1918. On the 11th January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zürich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. The next day he fell into a coma. On the 13th after a brief period of lucidity in which he called for his wife and son he passed. He was 58.1 - The Poetry of James Joyce - An Introduction2 - Chamber Music by James Joyce3 - Villanelle of the Temptress by James Joyce4 - She Weeps Over Rahoon by James Joyce5 - A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight by James Joyce6 - Tutto Sciolto by James Joyce7 - Simples by James Joyce8 - Bid Adieu to Maidenhood by James Joyce9 - The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly by James Joyce10 - Song by James Joyce11 - Night Piece by James Joyce12 - Alone by James Joyce13 - Flood by James Joyce14 - Bahnhofstrasse by James Joyce15 - Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba by James Joyce16 - A Flower Given to My Daughter by James Joyce17 - On the Beach at Fontana by James Joyce18 - Ecce Puer by James Joyce19 - A Prayer by James Joyce20 - The Holy Office by James Joyce21 - Gas From a Burner by James Joyce22 - Tilly by James Joyce

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Title: The Poetry of Aphra Behn

Author: Aphra Behn

Narrator: Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe, Tania Rodrigues

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Her poetry is now far more appreciated and seen as a breakthrough for women of the 17th Century and beyond. Aphra was baptised on 14th December 1640 and grew up with the gathering tensions leading to the English Civil War, a time of much division and difficulty as the King, Parliament, and their respective forces, came closer and then finally into open conflict.By 1664 her marriage was over, less than a year after it began. She now used Mrs Behn as her professional name and moved towards pursuing a more sustainable and substantial career, working for the King's Company and the Duke's Company players as a scribe. Her first play 'The Forc'd Marriage', was staged in 1670, and thereafter many followed, including her later comic works, which were more commercially successful. She wrote 19 plays in all and contributed to many others as well as several works of prose.Along with her literary career there are claims she was a spy, that she travelled abroad, possibly as far as Surinam. She also claimed to have met a slave leader in Africa and based her story 'Oroonoko' on his life. Other accounts suggest that during her life she was also known as Ann Behn, Agent One-Sixty and Astrea. Her financial troubles seem to have also incurred her a brief stay in a debtors' prison. Whatever the truth, both her life and work seem rich, textured and full of adventure.From the mid 1680's Aphra's health began to decline. This was exacerbated by her continual state of debt and descent into poverty although she was often fond of saying that she had led a 'life dedicated to pleasure and poetry.' Aphra Behn died on 16th April 1689. She is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey and the inscription on her tombstone reads: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality." 1 - The Poetry of Aphra Behn - An Introduction2 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn3 - On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks by Aphra Behn4 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn5 - To Lysander by Aphra Behn6 - Love Armed by Aphra Behn7 - On Desire by Aphra Behn8 - The Counsel by Aphra Behn9 - Love's Witness by Aphra Behn10 - The Invitation by Aphra Behn11 - To Mrs B by Aphra Behn12 - On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn13 - The Dream by Aphra Behn14 - Song by Aphra Behn15 - A Ballad on Mr J H to Amoret, Asking Why I Was So Sad by Aphra Behn16 - The Return by Aphra Behn17 - Oh How the Hand the Lover Ought to Prize by Aphra Behn18 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn19 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn20 - A Congratulatory Poem by Aphra Behn21 - A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn22 - Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven That Died Before by Aphra Behn23 - A Thousand Martyrs aka The Libertine by Aphra Behn24 - On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester by Aphra Behn

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Title: The Bhakti Poet Saints

Author: Guru Nanak, Mirabai, Kabir

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami.Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into 'Nirguna', the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and 'Saguna' which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai. The rapid spread, of the Bhakti movement, with its theme of love and devotion to God, proffered by these rebellious poet saints, did, over the following centuries, meld with much needed Hindu reforms and went to the heart of human existence. These 'God possessing' rather than 'God fearing' poets rejected hierarchies and intermediaries in their spiritual devotion and were critical of rules, regulations and ritual observances administered by Brahmin priests in the sacred but elitist court and temple Sanskrit. Their poems, in their local language, emphasised personal devotion as a route to salvation with kind deeds and a humble life rather than ritual mediation, stretched the fabric of society. They were all from lower castes and many were women giving the movement an egalitarian spirit that helped reinforce the message that god's love was all-encompassing for every person willing to surrender to the divine. Furthermore, their verse was accessible, simple, innovative with new poetic forms and often expressed in songs with a fierce passion and ecstasy that demonstrated the movement's focus on inner, mystical and authentic devotion and humility. Impromptu performances with provocative outbursts of singing and dancing in unconventional settings or public gatherings evolved into poetic presentations and community recitals as the rapid popularity of the movement spread. Although the language is every day and simple, many verses carry undercurrents of complex ideas, philosophical and psychological dilemmas, nuance and humour.1 - The Bhakti Poet Saints - An Introduction2 - His Ears Ringeth by Sambandar3 - Thiruppavi (An Extract) by Andal4 - Tiruvasiriyam by Nammalvar5 - Navada Bhakti in An Untainted Heart by Gangasati6 - Show Me Your Way Out by Akka Mahadevi7 - Would A Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi8 - The True Name is Like Sandalwood by Namdev9 - Amrutanubhav (An Extract) by Dnyaneshwar10 - Vakh - If in the Flux of Time by Lal Ded11 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded12 - Acceptance by Janabai13 - Where Shall I Go by Ramananda14 - Vaishnav by Narsinh Mehta15 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta16 - Illusion and Reality by Kabir17 - Song 6 - The Moon by Kabir18 - I Laugh When I Hear That the Fish in the Water is Thirsty by Kabir19 - It is the Mercy of My True Guru by Kabir20 - Song 1 - Oh Servant Where Dost Thou Seek Me by Kabir21 - Song 69 - If God Be Within the Mosque by Kabir22 - The Light of the Sun by Kabir23 - You Are Me and I Am You by Ravidas24 - The Name Alone Is The Truth by Ravidas25 - How to Escape by Ravidas26 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak27 - Gauri Dipaki Measure by Guru Nanak28 - Shikshashtakam by Chaitanya29 - Mine is Gopal by Mirabai30 - Beloved Mohan by Mirabai31 - Mira is Steadfast by Mirabai32 - I Will Sing the Praises by Mirabai33 - O Deluded Ones by Mirabai34 - Enjoy the Company of True Saints by Mirabai35 - Listen by Mirabai36 - Sister Without the Lord I Cannot Carry On by Mirabai37 - Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas38 - To Arrange Words by Tukaram39 - The Secret of Peace by Tukaram40 - Drive Me Out of My Mind by Ramprasad Sen

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Title: The Poetry of Hymns

Author: Ann Griffiths, James Thomson, John Donne

Narrator: Daniela Nardini, Richard Mitchley, William Dufris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture have borne witness to hymns that change our emotions and fortify our spirit through life, death and celebrations and memorials of every type in between. Whether you are of a Christian faith or not, it is difficult to deny that these hymns create something stirring something magical which shouldn't be surprising when you hear the original poems. They speak with clarity and purpose, uplifting the heart and the soul, rejoicing God's work and man's pledge to do better in His eyes. But Hymns also have a wider duty to perform as there are many facets, themes and help on how to live lives as ourselves and appreciate each other as well as nature. In listening each of us can be swayed and persuaded on a number of levels.However many poets have called their work 'a Hymn' and have explored its theme and its definition, in different ways. They can be more irreverent and suggest that hymns can come not from churches but other places - even watermelon pavilions.One of the purposes of poems, of verse, of words, is to bring a subject into our view, imbue it with a little understanding and perhaps help us to confirm our opinions or hear in a way we might not have originally thought of it. Seeing and hearing through others can be a way to find more complex ripples of knowledge or to challenge what we hold and adjust that thinking.In this volume we bring you a wide range of Hymns from the religious and the devotional to the humane and the wonderful.1 - The Poetry of Hymns - An Introduction 2 - Psalm 23 The Lord is My Shepherd3 - Amazing Grace by John Newton4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery6 - And Can It Be, That I Should Gain by Charles Wesley7 - Nearer, My God to Thee by Sarah Flower Adams8 - A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne9 - A Hymn to God The Father by Ben Jonson10 - A Hymn for Morning by Thomas Parnell11 - Hymn Written Sunday February the 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson12 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley13 - Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! by Reginald Heber14 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15 - The Hymn by Anne Kingsmill-Finch16 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley17 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson18 - A Spring Carol by Christina Rossetti19 - A Carol of Harvest For 1867 by Walt Whitman20 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius21 - Hymn to the Belly by Ben Jonson22 - Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti23 - Homer's Hymn To the Earth, Mother of All by Percy Bysshe Shelley24 - Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho25 - A Hymn To the Muses by Robert Herrick26 - Ain't That Hard. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187327 - Oh God! Oh Let Me Call Thee Thine by Anne Bronte28 - Hymn On Solitude by James Thomson29 - Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens30 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare31 - Hymn For St John's Eve The 29th June by John Henry Dryden32 - Jerusalem by William Blake33 - Hymn For the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge June 23rd 1874 by Oliver Wendell Holmes34 - Hymn for a Little Child by Matilda Betham Edwards35 - De Linin' ub de Hymns by Daniel Webster Davis36 - The Hymn of the Wiltshire Laborers by Charles Dickens37 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187338 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpont39 - Hymn XLI by William Williams Pantycelyn40 - There's An Open Door by Ann Griffiths41 - Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson42 - Hymn After Battle by Arthur St John Adcock43 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe44 - Onward Christian Soldiers by Sabine Baring-Gould45 - Hymn by Fenton Johnson46 - Boston Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson47 - Father Mapple's Hymn by Herman Melville48 - The Sailor's Hymn by William Whiting49 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant50 - Hymn to The North Star by William Cullen Bryant51 - In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Georgina Rossetti52 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell53 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge54 - Carol by Ben Jonson55 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere56 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland57 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale58 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton59 - The Prettiest Thing That Ever I Did. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187360 - A Funeral Hymn by David Mallet

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Title: The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét

Author: Stephen Vincent Benét

Narrator: Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

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.- 1 - The Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét - An Introduction2 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benét3 - Difference by Stephen Vincent Benét4 - Music by Stephen Vincent Benét5 - The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benét6 - Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benét7 - The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét8 - Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benét9 - Nightmare Number 3 by Stephen Vincent Benét10 - The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benét11 - For City Lovers by Stephen Vincent Benét12 - The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benét13 - Rain After A Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benét14 - Minor Litany by Stephen Vincent Benét15 - Days Pass, Men Pass by by Stephen Vincent Benét16 - For All Blasphemers by Stephen Vincent Benét17 - Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benét18 - Judgement by Stephen Vincent Benét19 - Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benét20 - Litany for Dictatorships by Stephen Vinvcent Benét21 - The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benét22 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benét23 - Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benét24 - Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benét25 - Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benét26 - Campus Sonnets by Stephen Vincent Benét27 - Elegy For An Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benét28 - Architects by Stephen Vincent Benét