Short Poetry Collection 151

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"description": "LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 151 by Various.
Read in English by Winston Tharp; myisha; Karen Joan Kohoutek; Son of the Exiles; Bruce Kachuk; John Burlinson; Shakira Searle; Newgatenovelist; Tony Addison; Leonard Wilson; Thomas A. Copeland
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015. It includes:

Advice to a Girl, by Thomas Campion
And So Did I, by Isaac Joslyn Cox
The City of Dreadful Night, by James Thomson
Come-By-Chance, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson
A Criticism of Critics, by R. F. Murray
Each in His Own Tongue, by William Herbert Carruth
The Flying Gang, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson
Henry Purcell, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Kiss, by Thomas Moore
Lettice, by Michael Field
A Love Song, by William Carlos Williams
On Monsieur's Departure, by Queen Elizabeth I
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes
It Is Not Growing Like a Tree, by Ben Jonson
An Orator's Complaint, by R. F. Murray
Prime, by Amy Lowell
Request, by Laurence Hope
Sappho to Phaon, by Sappho
The Snow Fairy, by Claude McKay
Sonnet 53, by William Shakespeare
Sonnet VII from Eight Sonnets (Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Storme, by John Donne
The Calme, by John Donne
The Story of Mongrel Grey, by Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson
To A Spider, by Samuel Low
Youth Renewed, by R. F. Murray
Zira: In Captivity, by Laurence Hope

This collection includes one long poem (Section 03 - The City of Dreadful Night). In this poem of bleak, existential despair, the narrator wanders the city at night, pondering existence, and describing characters (real and allegorical) whom he meets. (Introduction by reader)

This collection includes a pair of two poems (Sections 22-23 - The Storme" and The Calme). In 1597, John Donne voyaged on the famous Islands Expedition, which encountered two seamen's nightmares, a storm and a calm. He described these experiences in poems addressed to his close friend Sir Christopher Brooke. These poems contrast with each other on a grand scale as Donne's antitheses do on the level of couplet and phrase. (Introduction by reader)


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