25/07/2024
Carry On!
This is a little volume of poetry by Canadian poet Virna Sheard. Published in 1917, its subject is the then ongoing first World War. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
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25/07/2024
Song of the Wave, and Other Poems
This is an 1898 volume of poetry by American poet George Cabot Lodge. Its title-poem refers to the Sea, and the Sea does seem to be the main character of this book, making its appearance in many of the poems throughout the first part of the volume. The second part of the book is a collection of 40 sonnets on more varied topics. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Rebel Verses
Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful place among our foremost singers. What William Barnes was to Dorset, what T. E. Brown was to the Manx people—this is Mr. Gilbert to the folk of his native county of Lincoln. He has interpreted their lives, their sorrows, their aspirations, with a surprising fidelity. Mr. Gilbert never loses his grip upon realities. One feels that he knows the men of whom he writes in their most intimate moods; knows, too, their defects, which he does not shrink from recording. There is little of the dreamy idealism of the South in the peasant people of Lincolnshire. The outwardly respectable chapel-goer who asks himself, in a moment of introspection But why not have a good time here? Why should the Devil have all the beer? is true to type. But he has, too, his softer moods. Fidelity in friendship, courage, resource and perseverance—these are typical of the men of the Fens. – Summary by The New Witness, 1918 [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Spook Ballads
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. “Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as would have been dear to the heart of Ingoldsby. There is a rugged force in ‘The Girl of Castlebar’ that will always make it tell in recitation; and even greater success in this direction has attended ‘The Fairy Queen,’ a story unveiling the seamy side, with quaint humour and stern realism. It is specially worthy of note that Mr. Parkes’s skill in versification has received the warmest acknowledgment from those best qualified to appreciate the bright local coloring as well as the blending of fancy and fun.”— Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Afternoon
This is a volume of poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren, skillfully rendered into English verse by Charles Murphy. Although the English translation was published during World War I, the French original was published in 1905, and the topic of the poems is Verhaeren’s love for his wife Marthe. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Misrepresentative Women
After writing two volumes on Misrepresentative Men, in which Harry Graham satirized ancient and contemporary famous men, a volume on the famous ladies was necessary. This volume contains several humorous poems on famous women, as well as some other humorous verses. Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Katydid’s Poems
This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 042
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. “Eine Bagatelle” und “Die letzte Mohikanerin” von Anton Chekhov übersetzt von Alexander Eliasberg (1878 – 1924) Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte, Märchen, Essays) in anderen LibriVox Sammlungen gibt es hier. [chương_files]
25/07/2024
Contrasted Songs
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]
25/07/2024
Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes
This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]