The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Douglas
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This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of his youth. Douglas was primarily a sonneteer, and this collection features shorter poems about love, hatred, nature, religion, death, and even the art of poetry itself. It does not include Two Loves, the poem made famous by Oscar Wilde’s defence of it in his 1895 trials. - Summary by Rob Marland (2 hr 23 min)
Chapters
Preface | 0:40 | Read by Rob Marland |
Apologia | 1:24 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Autumn Days | 1:14 | Read by Phil Schempf |
To Shakespeare | 1:02 | Read by Hernandez |
Amoris Vincula | 1:01 | Read by Hernandez |
A Summer Storm | 0:55 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
A Winter Sunset | 0:55 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
In Summer | 1:14 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
In Winter | 0:56 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
In Sarum Close | 1:08 | Read by Hernandez |
The Sphynx | 1:03 | Read by Andrew Gaunce |
Impression de Nuit | 1:11 | Read by Hernandez |
To L— | 0:55 | Read by Andrew Gaunce |
Night Coming Into a Garden | 0:58 | Read by Connie Bettison |
Night Coming Out of a Garden | 1:07 | Read by Connie Bettison |
Perkin Warbeck | 6:10 | Read by Connie Bettison |
A Song | 0:54 | Read by Connie Bettison |
Plainte Eternelle | 2:42 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys | 7:13 | Read by Rob Marland |
A Prayer | 1:25 | Read by Larry Wilson |
In Memoriam: Francis Archibald Douglas | 1:39 | Read by Shreya Sethi |
The Image of Death | 1:27 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Vae Victis! | 2:15 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Garden of Death | 1:50 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
To Sleep | 1:14 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Ode to My Soul | 1:16 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Rejected | 2:49 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Travelling Companion | 1:22 | Read by Emmi Kranz |
The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo | 2:17 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Spring | 1:48 | Read by Emmi Kranz |
Ennui | 1:51 | Read by Emmi Kranz |
Wine of Summer | 5:17 | Read by Rob Marland |
Ode to Autumn | 2:45 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Harmonie du Soir | 1:44 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Le Balcon | 2:25 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Ballad of Saint Vitus | 8:47 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The City of the Soul | 4:08 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Sonnet on the Sonnet | 1:10 | Read by Rob Marland |
A Triad of the Moon | 3:03 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Proem | 1:39 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Dedication to "Sonnets" (1909) | 1:27 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Dead Poet | 1:26 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Dies Amara Valde | 1:26 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
To a Silent Poet | 1:25 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Traitor | 1:24 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Beauty and the Hunter | 1:27 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Rewards | 1:34 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Silence | 1:24 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Green River | 1:29 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
La Beauté | 1:32 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Sois Sage O Ma Douleur | 1:33 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
To Olive | 4:35 | Read by The Scholar of No Importance |
Forgetfulness | 1:05 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Premonition | 1:08 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Witch | 1:48 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Behold, Your House is Left Unto You Desolate | 1:12 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The End of Illusion | 1:45 | Read by Shreya Sethi |
Canker Blooms | 1:32 | Read by Shreya Sethi |
The Unspeakable Englishman | 1:21 | Read by Rob Marland |
Lighten our Darkness | 1:04 | Read by Andrew Gaunce |
English Benedictines | 1:37 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
On a Showing of the Nativity | 1:24 | Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Before a Crucifix | 1:17 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Note | 22:25 | Read by Rob Marland |