Custer, and Other Poems
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
64 chapters · 2 h 25 min · English
Read by Kathleen Flanary, Sonia, Jude, Jael Baldwin, Michele Fry, Greg Giordano
Poetry
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This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The final poem of this volume is an epic narrative poem glorifying the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who served in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 The World's Need 1 min 2 High Noon 2 min 3 Transformation 3 min 4 Thought-Magnets 1 min 5 Smiles 2 min 6 The Undiscovered Country 1 min 7 The Universal Route 1 min 8 Earthly Pride 1 min 9 Unanswered Prayers 2 min 10 Thanksgiving 2 min 11 A Maiden To Her Mirror 1 min 12 The Kettle 2 min 13 Contrasts 1 min 14 Thy Ship 2 min 15 The Tryst 3 min 16 Life 1 min 17 A Marine Etching 1 min 18 The Duel 2 min 19 'Love Thyself Last' 2 min 20 Christmas Fancies 3 min 21 The River 2 min 22 Sorry 3 min 23 The Old Wooden Cradle 2 min 24 Ambition's Trail 1 min 25 The Traveled Man 2 min 26 Uncontrolled 1 min 27 The Tulip Bed At Greeley Square 2 min 28 Will 1 min 29 To An Astrologer 2 min 30 The Tendril's Faith 1 min 31 The Times 2 min 32 The Question 1 min 33 Sorrow's Uses 1 min 34 If 2 min 35 Which Are You? 2 min 36 The Creed To Be 2 min 37 Music In The Flat 2 min 38 Inspiration 2 min 39 The Wish 1 min 40 Three Friends 2 min 41 You Never Can Tell 1 min 42 Here And Now 2 min 43 Unconquered 1 min 44 All That Love Asks 2 min 45 Does It Pay 1 min 46 Sestina 3 min 47 The Optimist, and the Pessimist 2 min 48 The Hammock's Complaint 1 min 49 Life's Harmonies 1 min 50 Preaching vs. Practice 1 min 51 An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride 3 min 52 I Am 2 min 53 Two Nights 2 min 54 Preparation 2 min 55 Custer, Book First, Stanzas I - XIII 6 min 56 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas I - X 5 min 57 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas XI - XX 5 min 58 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas XXI - XXX 5 min 59 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas XXXI - XL 5 min 60 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas XLI - L 5 min 61 Custer, Book Second, Stanzas LI - LXI 5 min 62 Custer, Book Third, Stanzas I - X 5 min 63 Custer, Book Third, Stanzas XI - XX 5 min 64 Custer, Book Third, Stanzas XXI - XXXIII 7 min
