Sestinas
Various
101 chapters · 4 h 48 min · English
Read by Peter Tucker, Newgatenovelist
Poetry
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The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
Chapters
1 Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni by Dante Alighieri 3 min 2 Sestina I: Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri 2 min 3 Sestina II: Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri 3 min 4 Sestina III: Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri 2 min 5 Ode II by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 6 Ode VIII by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 7 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 8 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch 6 min 9 Sestina I by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 10 Sestina II by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 11 Sestina III by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 12 Sestina IV by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 13 Sestina V by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 14 Sestina VI by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 15 Sestina VII by Francesco Petrarch 2 min 16 Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 17 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch 4 min 18 Petrarch's First Sestina by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 19 Sestina from Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 20 Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch 4 min 21 Double Sestina by Francesco Petrarch 5 min 22 A Sestina on a Lover's Hours by Francesco Petrarch 3 min 23 Cuddie's Sestina by Edmund Spenser 3 min 24 Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney 5 min 25 Adgelastus' Sestine by Philip Sidney 2 min 26 Farewell by Philip Sidney 2 min 27 Sestin I by William Alexander 3 min 28 Sestin II by William Alexander 3 min 29 Sestine 1 by Barnabe Barnes 2 min 30 Sestine 2 by Barnabe Barnes 2 min 31 Sestine 3 by Barnabe Barnes 2 min 32 Sestine 4 by Barnabe Barnes 4 min 33 Sestine 5 by Barnabe Barnes 6 min 34 A Complaint by Francis Davison 4 min 35 Sextain: The Heaven Doth Not Contain So Many Stars by William Drummond 2 min 36 Sextain: Sith Gone is My Delight and Only Pleasure by William Drummond 2 min 37 Sestine by Friedrich Rückert 3 min 38 A Sestina by James Mew 3 min 39 Sestina by Edmund Gosse 2 min 40 Rizzio's Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2 min 41 Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2 min 42 The Complaint of Lisa by Algernon Charles Swinburne 11 min 43 Beside the Sea by R. K. Munkittrick 2 min 44 A Sestina by H. C. Faulkner 3 min 45 Cupid and the Shepherd by Clinton Scollard 2 min 46 The Voices of Spring by Elizabeth Akers 3 min 47 Sestina by Florence Byrne 3 min 48 An Island Pine by Elisabeth Cavazza 3 min 49 Love's Going by Charles W. Coleman, Junior 2 min 50 An Explanatory Sestina by Henry Nesgarde Johnson 2 min 51 The Stars by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 3 min 52 Pulvis et Umbra by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 3 min 53 Personality by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 3 min 54 Dorothy by Annie Eliza Johnson 3 min 55 Thelga and Ethred by Harrison Robertson 3 min 56 The Birthday by Richard Garnett 3 min 57 Fra Filippo Lippi and the Nun by Mary Anna Buck Evans 3 min 58 An Incident in the Crusades by Mary Anna Buck Evans 3 min 59 Drake, and the Ransom of San Domingo - 1585 by Mary Anna Buck Evans 3 min 60 The Things I Love by John Lawrence Smith 3 min 61 Sestina by Timothy Barrett 3 min 62 Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling 2 min 63 Sestina of the Red Heart and White World by John William Lloyd 3 min 64 Sestina by Charles Camp Tarelli 2 min 65 Sestina: The Higher Scepticism by Charles Camp Tarelli 2 min 66 Sestina: The Adventurers by Charles Camp Tarelli 2 min 67 To the Forest by Eugene Lee-Hamilton 3 min 68 Homes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 min 69 The Bawling World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 min 70 A Dream of Gold by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 min 71 Sestina by Annie Lake Townsend 3 min 72 In the Autumn Woods by Charles Edward Russell 3 min 73 Sestina by Post Wheeler 2 min 74 Sestina of Youth and Age by Gelett Burgess 2 min 75 New Hope by Charles F. Johnson 2 min 76 Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 3 min 77 Rebel-Chimes by Ardeen Foster 2 min 78 Sestina by Victor Reese 3 min 79 Sestina - A Song in Winter by W. M. James 3 min 80 Mid-Summer's Eve by Stanley Matthews Cleveland 3 min 81 Sestina by Margaret Thomas 2 min 82 Sestina of the Yellow Rose by H. E. D 3 min 83 Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound 3 min 84 Sestina for Ysolt by Ezra Pound 2 min 85 The Immortal World by Nina Salaman 3 min 86 Sestina of the Ardent Club Woman by Mary Eleanor Roberts 2 min 87 Betwixt the Night and Day by Nels Dickmann Anderson 3 min 88 Love's Serenade by Nels Dickmann Anderson 2 min 89 Sestina of the Shuffling Feet by William Andrew MacKenzie 3 min 90 Sestina by Leroy Titus Weeks 2 min 91 The Sestina of Thoughtful Bill by Edward Benninghaus Kenna 2 min 92 A Rhymed Sestina by Dorothy Frances Gurney 2 min 93 The Sestina of the New Englander by Shirley Harvey 2 min 94 The Conqueror Passes by James Branch Cabell 2 min 95 The House of Silence by Richard Butler Glaenzer 3 min 96 Narcissus by Thomas Grant Springer 2 min 97 Sestina by Mary Cromwell Low 3 min 98 Sestina of a Scamp Royal by John Francis Glynn 2 min 99 Sestina: The Reawakening of Desire by Dolf Wyllarde 2 min 100 Sestina to Professor Gildersleeve on His Forthcoming Sonnets by Carol Wight 3 min 101 Sestina by Henry Dumont 2 min
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