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This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, “Among these “Contrasted Songs” I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond.” – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so well-known today is the fact that Day also occasionally penned a poem about his passion for the sea and sailing. Those poems are collected in this volume. – Summary by Carolin and Wikipedia [chương_files]
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, and introduced by a note from her uncle, Rev. Dr. J.I.T. Coolidge. The hymns are excellently chosen, and the volume will be brought out in tasteful style. It will commend itself to the favor of all Episcopalians, and to the devout in all denominations, to whom Easter is not a mere churchly date but a day of deep and glad significance. – The Publisher’s Weekly, March 18th, 1876. [chương_files]
This is a collection of Easter poems by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins. The poems all center around the Easter holiday, in both a religious as well as a more generally festive tone. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
George R. Sims was a journalist of the Victorian era who was mostly concerned with social reforms. He was very interested in the life of the poor. This is a dramatic monologue by an inmate at a workhouse, exposing the hypocrisy of the law. A vivid ballad which you would not be able to resist. – Summary by Stav Nisser. [chương_files]
This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall. It is the second volume of his collected poems, and contains some of his most widely-known verses, such as “Bell-Birds”, “The Hut by the Black Swamp”, and “The Last of His Tribe”. This collection is also the work on which Kendall’s particular reputation for nature poetry was first based. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot “And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” – Genesis 4:21 Re-imagined from a few bare lines in Genesis, George Eliot’s epic poem describes man’s loss of innocense, the birth of animal husbandry, of industry, commerce, and art. In a surprise ending, she tells of human transcendence. Each of us has a divine gift to offer the world. (Summary by Josh Mitteldorf) [chương_files]
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions: 01 Japanese – Shisyuu by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) [1925] – Key words: prose, fiction, poetries 02 Japanese – Utsukushii Inu by Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951) [1947] – Key words: prose, fiction, dog 03 Japanese – Konoteni kagiruyo by Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) [1937] – Key words: prose, fiction, dream 04 Japanese – Ookina Komorigasa by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) [1926] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, umbrella 05 Polish – O kaznodziei by Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) [1883] – Key words: poetry, fraszka, ksiądz, pieniądze 06 Japanese – Niwa by Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) [1946] – Key words: prose, essay, garden 07 Japanese – Kakehino Hanashi by Kajii Motojiro (1901-1932) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, water 08 Japanese – Iseini taisuru kankakuwo senrenseyo by Okamoto Kanoko (1889-1939) [1935] – Key words: prose, women 09 Polish – Król chory i lisy by Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) translated by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) [1893] – Key words: fable, bajka, lisy, lew, król 10 Japanese – Kinno Kubikazari by Ono Hiroshi (1894-1933) [1928] – Key words: prose, fiction, children, golden necklace 11 Japanese – Kusuriyubino magari by Tanaka Koutarou (1880-1941) [1934] – Key words: prose, doctor, ring finger 12 Japanese – Sorano bi by Miyamoto Yuriko (1899-1951) [1926] – Key words: prose, sky 13 German – Der Sturm auf dem Tyrrhener Meer by Vergil (70 BC – 19 […]
A book-length poem, often associated with the Graveyard School of poetry, musing upon life and death. – Summary by Karen Joan Kohoutek [chương_files]
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