Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
64 chapters · 1 h 56 min · English
Read by Sonia, larryhayes7, Mayah, Lilian Elizabeth, Larry Wilson, Eva Davis (d. 2025) and others
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This is a volume of poetry by American poet and feminist social reformer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Many of the poems in this volume reflect the ideas Phelps advocated during her life, and are meant to encourage the reader to entertain them. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Proem 1 min 2 Afterward 2 min 3 Released 1 min 4 The Room's Width 1 min 5 The First Christmas Apart 2 min 6 The Angel Joy 2 min 7 Absent! 3 min 8 The Unseen Comrades 2 min 9 Stronger than Death 7 min 10 Vittoria 3 min 11 New Neighbors 2 min 12 By the Hearth 2 min 13 Told in Confidence 1 min 14 What the Violins Said 2 min 15 Won 1 min 16 Spent 2 min 17 Parted 1 min 18 An April Gust 1 min 19 The Answer 2 min 20 Thorns 1 min 21 The Indian Girl 1 min 22 Sealed 1 min 23 Guinevere 5 min 24 Sung to a Friend 1 min 25 Incompletion 1 min 26 Rafe's Chasm 2 min 27 Galatea 4 min 28 Part of the Price 2 min 29 Eurydice 2 min 30 Elaine and Elaine 2 min 31 The Poet and the Poem 5 min 32 Overtasked 1 min 33 Stranded 2 min 34 Gloucester Harbor 2 min 35 The Terrible Test 2 min 36 My Dreams are of the Sea 1 min 37 Song 1 min 38 An Interpretation 1 min 39 The Sphinx 2 min 40 Victuræ Salutamus 2 min 41 The Ermine 2 min 42 Unquenched 2 min 43 The King's Image 1 min 44 At the Party 4 min 45 A Jewish Legend 3 min 46 The Songs of Seventy Years 2 min 47 Birthday Verses 3 min 48 A Tribute 2 min 49 To O.W.H 1 min 50 Whose shall the Welcome be? 1 min 51 Exeat 1 min 52 George Eliot 2 min 53 Her Jury 1 min 54 A Prayer. (Matins.) 3 min 55 An Acknowledgment 1 min 56 Hymn 2 min 57 Answered 1 min 58 Westward 1 min 59 Three Friends 1 min 60 A New Friend 1 min 61 An Etching 1 min 62 To my Father 1 min 63 The Gates Between 1 min 64 A Prayer. (Vespers.) 1 min
