Poems
George Murray , John Reade
135 chapters · 5 h 57 min · English
Read by Tomas Peter, Sonia, Joe Brenneman, Larry Wilson, Jessi McDaniel, Pierre Delcourt and others
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George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry, are Murray's translations of works by popular French poets like Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, along with selections from Greek, Latin, Swedish and German authors. The volume was edited by "the grand old man of Canadian letters" and Montreal Gazette literary editor John Reade, who also provided the prefatory biographical memoir. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 Preface and Biographical Sketch 21 min 2 How Canada Was Saved 8 min 3 Willie the Miner 8 min 4 To a Humming-bird in a Garden 3 min 5 The Pardoned Sin 4 min 6 The Thistle: A Legendary Ballad 5 min 7 A Parable 2 min 8 An Eastern Judge 2 min 9 The Lake 3 min 10 God's Heroes 1 min 11 A Legend of the Child Jesus (Written for a Child) 5 min 12 The Time Will Come: Rondeau 1 min 13 A Lesson of Mercy 1 min 14 The King and the Peasant 2 min 15 The Story of Brother Paul 5 min 16 Robert Burns 6 min 17 The Swiss Deserter 2 min 18 A Dream About the Aspen 5 min 19 Brotherly Love; or, The Site of King Solomon's Temple 6 min 20 The Days That Are No More 6 min 21 The Deaf Girl 2 min 22 The Neapolitans to Mozart 3 min 23 The New Year's Night of an Unhappy Man 4 min 24 The Sower 1 min 25 The Lamp of Hero 2 min 26 The Funeral of a Village Girl 2 min 27 The Keeper's Son 4 min 28 Iphigenia at Aulis 3 min 29 After the Battle 4 min 30 The Madonna's Isle 3 min 31 A Wild Flower 2 min 32 A Woman's Dream 2 min 33 Remembrance 4 min 34 Perhaps 3 min 35 If, Darling, with Melodious Lay 1 min 36 The Lily and the Rose 1 min 37 Le muguet et la rose 1 min 38 Sonnet 1 min 39 A Week in a Boy's Life 9 min 40 A Fantasy 1 min 41 Forget Me Not 2 min 42 Jacques 1 min 43 The Maiden of Otaheite 4 min 44 Une femme 1 min 45 A Woman 1 min 46 Delivered 2 min 47 To Ninon 3 min 48 In Futuro 2 min 49 A Dead Woman 2 min 50 An Evening Scene 2 min 51 Christmas 1 min 52 Memories 2 min 53 Tit-for-Tat 1 min 54 The Flower and the Butterfly 2 min 55 To My Old Coat 2 min 56 A Ballad 1 min 57 Rondeau 1 min 58 The Grave and the Rose 1 min 59 Ultima Spes Mortuorum 4 min 60 The Grandmother 3 min 61 The Terrors of Death (Written on the Walls of a Carthusian Monastery) 3 min 62 The Redbreast 1 min 63 The Angel and the Child 2 min 64 What the Swallows Say 3 min 65 An Appeal for the Deaf and Dumb 3 min 66 Gondolied 1 min 67 The Stranger 2 min 68 The Old Year 3 min 69 The Horoscope 1 min 70 The Hare and the Tortoise 1 min 71 'Beauty and the Beast' 2 min 72 Prologue to 'The Merchant of Venice' 4 min 73 Vilikins and His Dinah 2 min 74 Idem Latine Redditum 2 min 75 A Farewell to the 'Guards' 3 min 76 The Silken Sashes 2 min 77 Desolation 1 min 78 A Pauper Poet 2 min 79 A Ballad for Christmas-tide 2 min 80 The Ballad of the Hopeless Man 3 min 81 A Story of King David 3 min 82 At Lake Maholé 2 min 83 From the French of Victor Hugo 1 min 84 Translations from the Odes of Horace 6 min 85 'For Valour' 1 min 86 The Doves 1 min 87 Knight Toggenburg 3 min 88 A Coup d'État: An Incident in the Night of December 4th, 1851 4 min 89 An Old Song of a Youthful Time 2 min 90 Margaret's Song (from 'Faust') 1 min 91 The Wandering Jew 3 min 92 The Avenged Crow 2 min 93 The Landlady's Daughter 1 min 94 Two Pictures 1 min 95 Consolation 2 min 96 A Handful of Epigrams 2 min 97 Beneath a Picture 3 min 98 The Caravan 1 min 99 Fame and Love 3 min 100 The Spectre of the Rose 1 min 101 Coquetry 1 min 102 Song 1 min 103 The Gentlemen Cricketers' Team 2 min 104 Flowers from the Greek Anthology 7 min 105 The Student's Wife 2 min 106 Song 1 min 107 The Toilet of Constance 2 min 108 Le monde est méchant 2 min 109 The Ballad of Jean Renaud 2 min 110 The Cid and the Jew 3 min 111 Welcome to Mark Twain 1 min 112 Lord Roberts 1 min 113 The Streamlet 2 min 114 The Eagle and the Kings 1 min 115 The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar 3 min 116 The Leaf 1 min 117 My Neighbour's Curtain 1 min 118 The Strike of the Smiths 13 min 119 When Children Sleep 2 min 120 A Thief (A Christmas Story) 5 min 121 The Magic Bow 2 min 122 Noël 2 min 123 The Black Point 1 min 124 Present Help in Trouble 6 min 125 The Blind Man 1 min 126 À un passant 2 min 127 Chanson d'automne 1 min 128 The Brook and the Ocean 1 min 129 A Withered Nosegay 1 min 130 The Butterfly 1 min 131 The Death of Rolla 2 min 132 The Giant 5 min 133 For Aye 1 min 134 The Golden Dream 2 min 135 Whither? 2 min
