Spring Harvest
Geoffrey Bache Smith
51 chapters · 1 h 32 min · English
Read by Devorah Allen, Ellies, Larry Wilson, Chris Pyle, Bruce Kachuk, Stefan Von Blon and others
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G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He was a talented poet and attended Oxford. In 1915, he fought for England in World War I, and died of wounds received in 1916. After his death, this volume of his poetry was published by Tolkien and dedicated to Smith's mother. - Summary by Devorah Allen
Chapters
1 Introductory Note 3 min 2 I: Glastonbury 16 min 3 I: Legend 4 min 4 II: Rime 2 min 5 II: To an Elzevir Cicero 1 min 6 II: To a Dürer Drawing of Antwerp Harbour 1 min 7 II: Pure Virginia 1 min 8 II: A Preface for a Tale I have never told 2 min 9 II: A Sonnet 1 min 10 II: ''It was all in the Black Countree'' 1 min 11 II: To a Pianist 1 min 12 II: A Fragment 1 min 13 II: Sea Poppies 2 min 14 II: ''O, sing me a Song of the Wild West Wind'' 1 min 15 II: Ære Perennius 2 min 16 II: The Old Kings 1 min 17 II: ''O there be Kings whose Treasuries'' 2 min 18 II: A Study 1 min 19 II: The Eremite 1 min 20 II: The House of Eld 1 min 21 II: The South-west Wind 1 min 22 II: Schumann: Erstes Verlust 2 min 23 II: ''Dark Boughs against a Golden Sky'' 1 min 24 II: ''Wind of the Darkness'' 1 min 25 II: Creator Spiritus 1 min 26 II: Wind over the Sea 2 min 27 II: Songs on the Downs 1 min 28 III: ''We who have bowed ourselves to Time'' 2 min 29 III: Anglia Valida in Senectute 2 min 30 III: ''Dark is the World our Fathers left us'' 2 min 31 III: Awakening 1 min 32 III: Ave atque Vale 2 min 33 III: ''O, one came down from Seven Hills'' 2 min 34 III: Sonnet to the British Navy 1 min 35 III: The Last Meeting 1 min 36 III: The New Age and the Old 1 min 37 III: To the Cultured 1 min 38 III: Afterwards 1 min 39 III: Domum redit Poeta 1 min 40 III: Memories 2 min 41 III: Intercessional 1 min 42 III: April 1916 1 min 43 III: ''Over the Hills and Hollows Green'' 1 min 44 III: Sonnet 1 min 45 III: ''O Long the Fiends of War shall dance'' 1 min 46 III: For R. Q. G 1 min 47 III: ''Sun and Shadow and Winds of Spring'' 1 min 48 III: ''Let us tell Quiet Stories of Kind Eyes'' 2 min 49 III: ''Save that Poetic Fire'' 1 min 50 III: The Burial of Sophocles 8 min 51 III: ''So we lay down the Pen'' 1 min
