Poems for my Children
Ann Hawkshaw
Read by Phil Benson
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in an intimate conversational style. 'Ada', the final poem in the collection, is a memorial for her second child, who had died of hydrocephalus shortly before her fifth birthday. Five historical poems, set in the times of the Druids, the Romans the Saxons, the Normans and the Crusades, punctuate the collection and anticipate her later collection, 'Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History'. (Phil Benson) (1 hr 22 min)
Chapters
| Part 1. Spring is coming; Mary's wish; The festival of the last of October - Sc… | 8:42 | Read by Phil Benson |
| Part 2. The little wanderers; The wind | 14:56 | Read by Phil Benson |
| Part 3. Scene in the time of the Romans; The city child's complaint; The first … | 13:46 | Read by Phil Benson |
| Part 4. King Alfred and his mother - A scene in the time of the Saxons; The ang… | 18:00 | Read by Phil Benson |
| Part 5. The monk of Chester - A scene in the time of the Normans; A talk in Fur… | 8:21 | Read by Phil Benson |
| Part 6. Sir Oswald's return - A scene in the time of the Crusades; Ada | 19:09 | Read by Phil Benson |