![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | there is time but it seems gone - tanner brockwell
short poem read by author part of a larger work being released as audio files
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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| "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" - Robert Browning
This 1855 poem was based on a Scottish fairy tale about a lone knight setting out to rescue his sister from the King of Elfland. In turn, it became the inspiration for Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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| "Hymn to Christ" - Clement of Alexandria
An early Christian hymn to Christ.
Source: Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets by Allan W. Chatfield, 1876
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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| Confessio Amantis - John Gower
A classic collection of tales in poetic form about the seven deadly sins, written in Middle English. Why an audiobook? Because I've never read this classic, and neither have most people. Great poets should be more than just names to us. In this audiobook I attempt Middle English pronunciation, albeit not with entire success. But at least it shouldn't be any harder to understand than your average English speaker with a thick accent...
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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| "The Sewing Bird" - Fitz-James O'Brien
O'Brien knew London and Paris, where shopgirls were common. But in New York, the stores only employed salesmen, even in departments selling exclusively to women. The work was seen as too hard for women -- but slaving as seamstresses was not. O'Brien protests this injustice in a witty fantasy about a labor-saving fabric clamp (the eponymous Sewing Bird) come alive.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 21, issue 124 (September 1860).
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry
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| Love Letters Unsent to People Unmet - John Robinson
Love Letters Unsent to People Unmet, a book of poetry - read unabridged on Disc 1, author's commentary on Disc 2.
Source: http://www.onetusk.com
Keywords: Spoken Word; Audiobook - Poetry
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| Annus Mirabilis - John Dryden
1666 was a year of war, plague, and fire. In November 1666, John Dryden wrote an epic poem chronicling his year. Hits very close to home since 9/11.
Source: Project Gutenberg
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Poetry
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| AudibleWordPodcast 1-0 Cecilia Vicuna - Cecilia Vicuna and Kenneth Sherwood
Audible Word Podcasts are written and produced by Kenneth Sherwood as a project of the AudibleWord. Podcast releases and updates to site content are announced at AudibleWord.org
Source: Original Performance, Odessa TX, 12 OCT 2002
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Poetry
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| "Love Among the Ruins" - Robert Browning
An Italian shepherd considers the worth of the glory of an ancient city's remains compared to the girl who awaits him there.
Source: Men and Women by Robert Browning, 1855.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; love
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| "Death, Be Not Proud" - John Donne
This poem, addressed to Death, is one of John Donne's "Holy Sonnets".
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; death; Religion
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| "The Enchanted Titan" - Fitz-James O'Brien
Poem about a Titan trapped by magic, and his star-crossed romance.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 20, issue 115 (December 1859).
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Fantasy
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| Hymn VII for the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh - St. Ephraim of Syria
A hymn talking about Jesus' ancestors, and how they awaited the Messiah's coming. Entertainingly, the hymn focuses on the spicier side of the stories of Tamar and Ruth. This is not your normal Christmas hymn.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Holidays; Christmas
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| The Pearl - St. Ephraim of Syria
Seven Early Christian hymns inspired by the image of a pearl.
Source: The Pearl: Seven Hymns on the Faith (tr. J.B. Morris)
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Religion
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| Poesies - Guillem A. Tell i Lafont
Han passat més de quaranta anys de la primera edició d'aquest recull de poesies que l'autor no pogué veure enllestida. Va morir quan tot just corregia les proves de l'índex, i havent escrit i revisat el Pròleg-Endreça que obria el volum que, malhauradament, havia d'ésser pòstum.
Source: http://guillematell.blogspot.com/
Keywords: Spoken Word; Audiobook - Poetry
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| The Hasty Pudding - Joel Barlow
An epic poem about the eating and making of "hasty pudding", best known today as cornmeal mush.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; food
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| "Horatius", from Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Babington Macaulay
You've seen literary references to Horatius at the Bridge and Volaterrae and "Lars Porsena of Clusium, to the Nine Gods he swore", but they don't make folks read that in school anymore. So why not read it for yourself? This is fun stuff! The idea behind Lays of Ancient Rome was to recreate (for fun and education) the sort of pre-classical ballad poetry that we know the republican Romans had. Whether or not it's anything like that, it's certainly good historical fiction and good rousing poetry.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; History
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| "Hymn for the Lighting of the Lamps" - Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (Tr. by R. Martin Pope)
Prudentius, a Christian Roman poet from Spain, wrote several books of poems and hymns. This one is from the Liber Cathemerinon, a book of hymns for various hours and holy days. Bonus tracks are included: "Inventor Rutili", a Latin chant hymn drawn from the first 12 lines of the "Hymn for the Lighting of the Lamps", both in Latin and English. Also, "Hymn for the Burial of the Dead".
Source: The Hymns of Prudentius (translated by R. Martin Pope)
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Religion
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| "Lepanto" - G.K. Chesterton
"Lepanto" was written when Chesterton was still in school. It tells about the Battle of Lepanto, in which the vastly outnumbered Holy League, led by an illegimately born prince, beat the Ottoman Empire's galleys, thus helping change the course of history. It also refers to the historical fact that Cervantes, once a prisoner in the Ottoman galleys, fought in the great and chivalrous Battle of Lepanto.....
Source: "Lepanto", 1911
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Sea
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| "Locksley Hall" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson's 1842 poem "Locksley Hall", and its 1886 sequel, "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After". A tragic love story, or a lucky escape for both parties? An amazing evocation of historical change and destiny, or a whiny fanboy's complaint? Tennyson reports; you decide!
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Science Fiction
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| "And Then No More" - James Clarence Mangan
"I saw her once, one little while, and then no more."
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; romance
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| "Minot's Ledge" - Fitz-James O'Brien
A poem about a lighthouse keeper, set at Minot's Ledge, a dangerous group of rocks just outside Boston Harbor.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1861.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Sea
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| "Our Christmas Tree" - Fitz-James O'Brien
A poor man contrasts his Christmas tree to that of a millionaire.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1860
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Christmas
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| "The Prisoner of War" - Fitz-James O'Brien
A Union soldier thinks of his friend, imprisoned down South. Written in December 1861. O'Brien was a Union officer. He died from his wounds in April 1862.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1862.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; War
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| "A Soldier's Letter" - Fitz-James O'Brien
Printed in March 1862 (about the time it would take to get such a letter written in January), this poem was one of the last things ever written by Fitz-James O'Brien. It's full of Victorian sentiment, but it also uses that in a rather clever way. It also tells a pretty good story. O'Brien was wounded in a skirmish on February 26, 1862, and died of complications from his wounds on April 6, 1862.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1862
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; war
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| "The Tenement House" - Fitz-James O'Brien
A bitter poem about a firetrap tenement house and its rich landlord.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1861
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; fires
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| "The Parliament of Fowls" - Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer's St. Valentine's Day classic. Read in modern English pronunciation, for maximum understanding, and with funny voices, because the characters are birds. If you want to hear this read in Middle English pronunciation, there's a whole site where they do just that.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; romance
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| Pharsalia (aka The Civil War) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan)
An epic poem about the tragic Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompeius (Pompey), which also figuratively chronicles Lucan's own realization that his good friend, patron, and new emperor, Nero, has become a danger to his people. The poem ends prematurely, because Lucan was executed for plotting to overthrow Nero. Immensely influential to Western civilization and a true classic, though sadly forgotten over the last hundred years (when folks should have read it)...
Source: Pharsalia by Lucan, tr. by Sir Edward Ridley, 1896.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; History
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| "The Phoenix and the Turtle" - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's short and mysterious metaphysical poem, from the anthology Love's Martyr. The most recent interpretation is that this poem retells the actual love, separation from her husband, and martyrdom of St. Ann Line, which took place the same year the poem was written.
Source: "The Phoenix and the Turtle" from Love's Martyr, 1601.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; romance; death
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| "The Skaters" - Fitz-James O'Brien
"Like clouds they scud across the ice, His hands hold hers as in a vise...." From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 22, issue 129 (February 1861).
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1861.
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Winter
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| Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Freed), Part 2 - Torquato Tasso
The classic poem continues with more fantasy Crusade adventure, as the siege of Jerusalem begins and one of the most prominent Crusaders is killed with a sharp piece of irony. A courtly love triangle from afar is revealed: the Christian knight Tancred, the Saracen lady knight Clorinda, and Erminia, the exiled Saracen princess of Antioch. Meanwhile, the wizard king of Damascus sends his niece, the lovely witch Armida, to seduce and destroy the Crusaders by any means possible...
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; romance; fantasy
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| Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Freed) - Torquato Tasso
An epic poem and piece of historical fiction set during the First Crusade. This is considered one of the three great Italian epic poems, along with Dante's Divine Comedy and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. The poem primarily focuses on Rinaldo and his hopeless love for a Saracen woman warrior, and on many historical personages made more romantic. Translation by Edward Fairfax; published in London, 1600...
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; romance; fantasy
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| A Treasury of Humorous Poetry - Ed. by Frederic Laurence Knowles
"Being a compilation of witty, facetious, and satirical verse selected from the writings of British and American poets." A 1902 collection mostly taken from 19th century poets, and selected mostly because the editor thought they were funny and people would like them. Mark Twain's blurb: "I should not be able to get along without 'The Treasury of Humorous Poetry', now that I have it and realize its value."
Keywords: Audiobook - poetry; comedy; humor
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| The Bridal of Triermain - Sir Walter Scott
Published anonymously, Scott's 1813 poem combines Regency romance, Arthurian adventure, and medieval questing. Interesting and unique.
Source: The Camelot Project, U. of Rochester
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Fantasy
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| "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" - Jonathan Swift
Why wait until you die to describe your own funeral? The satirist Jonathan Swift describes what his contemporaries' reaction to his death will probably be.
Source: "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" by Jonathan Swift
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; satire
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| TrenchJustinMartyr - Richard Chenevix Trench
This poem is ostensibly a story about Justin Martyr's mysterious conversation near the seashore with an old man he'd never seen before and never saw again, as he related it in the book Dialogue with Trypho. However, since the general concerns of the character of Justin in this poem are not those in Justin's book, this is probably an autobiographical poem im disguise. Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) was an Anglican clergyman who ended up as archbishop of Dublin...
Source: The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, by Richard Chenevix Trench
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Religion; spirituality |
| Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Freed), Part 3 - Torquato Tasso
Things look bad for the Crusaders as they look for supplies, fight the summer heat, and expect enemy reinforcements from Egypt. And since the enemy forces include wizards and witches, trouble's sure to come! Part 1 Part 2
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; History; Religion; fantasy
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| "Ballad of the Shamrock" - Fitz-James O'Brien
From the March 1861 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a poem about an Irish immigrant mother and her son.
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1861
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Holidays; St. Patrick's Day; Immigration
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| The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
Murder! A trial! An execution! But who was really guilty? Robert Browning's epic poem of historical fiction, psychological drama, and true crime is like nothing else you've ever read. Only Robert Browning would have tried it, and only Robert Browning made it work.
Keywords: Audiobook - poetry; historical fiction; crime; mystery
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| The Purgatory of St. Patrick - Pedro Calderon de la Barca
From the Golden Age of Spanish drama, this play is based on the legend of St. Patrick's Purgatory, a famous pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. It also references the Irish-origin legends about St. Patrick. Translated into English in the same verse meters as the original, and very well done, too.
Source: English translation by Denis Florence MacCarthy
Keywords: Audiobook - Poetry; Religion; Plays; St. Patrick's Day
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| Fearless 64 Transmissions vol 1 - Various Artists
Transmissions vol.1 is a collection of spoken-word, analog phone messages, and digital recordings. Track List & Time Markers: 00:00 Transmissions Begin 00:18 Richard Novak – Homestead 01:44 Joseph Veronneau – Bipolar 02:38 Kevin M. Hibshman – Untitled 04:05 Kevin M. Hibshman – Worlds can Shift 05:23 Kevin M. Hibshman – 3am Workday Blues 06:27 Oskar Dodier – Holy Sonnet #10 vs the Berlin Mass-Agnus Dei 07:19 Wm...
Source: telephone transmissions
Keywords: poetry; spoken-word; post-beat; fearless; audio-zine; 21st century; american poets; audiobook - poetry; gay literature; post-modernism; pop-experimental; reading; sound poetry; post-punk; literary magazine; C.F. Roberts; S.A. Griffin; Oskar Dodier; Lawn D. Ath; Richard Novak; Kevin M. Hibshman; Joseph Veronneau; Wm. P. Marshall; the Swedenborgs
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