Sonnets
George Graham Currie
57 chapters · 2 h 13 min · English
Read by Ellies, NayaG, Bruce Kachuk, Phil Schempf, Lynda Marie Neilson, MartinW and others
Poetry
Play ☆ Favorite
This is a book of sonnets by George G. Currie. Currie was a Canadian-born lawyer and business man, but also an accomplished author and poet. While he traveled the United States and Europe extensively throughout his life, he settled in Florida. Both the theme of traveling as well as Florida occur frequently in his poetry. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Invocation 1 min 2 Side Lights on Man 10 min 3 Woman - In Her Infinite Variety 4 min 4 Democratic Doctrines 10 min 5 An Open Letter to Henry Morrison Flagler 8 min 6 To the White Man's God 5 min 7 In Honor of St. Augustine, the Oldest City in America 3 min 8 Ponce de Leon's Mistake 1 min 9 In the Pinewoods 1 min 10 Canada 1 min 11 Farewell 2 min 12 Well Done 2 min 13 Awake my Countrymen 1 min 14 Our Hero Brothers 1 min 15 By the Grave of St. Louis Riel 2 min 16 My Choice of Cities 1 min 17 To Sir Wilfrid Laurier 2 min 18 In Westminster Abbey 6 min 19 To Edwin H. Lemare, Organist 1 min 20 Glasgow University 1 min 21 On Tara at Sunrise 3 min 22 To My Only Sister 2 min 23 Annie Besant, the Orator 1 min 24 Home 1 min 25 The One I Love 1 min 26 Life 2 min 27 Death 2 min 28 Sympathy 2 min 29 Solitude 1 min 30 Mock Modesty 2 min 31 Cruelty 1 min 32 Remorse 2 min 33 Poverty 1 min 34 Travel 1 min 35 Odysseus 2 min 36 Heroism 1 min 37 Love 2 min 38 Forgiven 1 min 39 Patriotism 1 min 40 Science 1 min 41 Truth 1 min 42 History 1 min 43 Consistency 1 min 44 Friendship 1 min 45 Odd Fellowship 1 min 46 Let Us Have Unlimited Arbitration 1 min 47 The Miracle of Birth 1 min 48 Shall the Mothers Vote 1 min 49 The Hague Tribunal 1 min 50 The World Is My Country, to Do Good Is My Religion 2 min 51 Up in an Aeroplane 2 min 52 To Francis Angevine Currie 1 min 53 To My Baby Daughter 1 min 54 To Richard Currie Chillingworth 1 min 55 Assassination of McKinley 1 min 56 To My Mistress' Eyebrow 1 min 57 Lily and the Angel 16 min
