Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author's native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition quickly sold out, and an expanded edition was produced a month later. Its erotic content, a rejection of old Victorian values, along with anti-war and feminist themes, catapulted the then 27-year-old Cross to the forefront of Australian poets. She was lauded and praised, but slowly fell into disfavor. Here we present the expanded version of her book, with the addition of four poems dropped from the privately-printed edition, which appear at the end of the recording. - Summary by cavaet
Chapters
1 Sonnet I 1 min 2 Sonnet II 1 min 3 Sonnet III 1 min 4 Sonnet IV 1 min 5 Sonnet V 1 min 6 Sonnet VI 1 min 7 Sonnet VII 1 min 8 Sonnet VIII 1 min 9 Sonnet IX 1 min 10 Sonnet X 1 min 11 Sonnet XI 1 min 12 Sonnet XII 1 min 13 Sonnet XIII 1 min 14 Sonnet XIV 1 min 15 Sonnet XV 1 min 16 Sonnet XVI 1 min 17 Sonnet XVII 1 min 18 Sonnet XVIII 1 min 19 Sonnet XIX 1 min 20 Sonnet XX 1 min 21 Sonnet XXI 1 min 22 Sonnet XXII 1 min 23 Sonnet XXIII 1 min 24 Sonnet XXIV 1 min 25 Sonnet XXV 1 min 26 Sonnet XXVI 1 min 27 Sonnet XXVII 1 min 28 Sonnet XXVIII 1 min 29 Sonnet XXIX 1 min 30 Sonnet XXX 1 min 31 Sonnet XXXI 1 min 32 Sonnet XXXII 1 min 33 Sonnet XXXIII 1 min 34 Sonnet XXXIV 1 min 35 Sonnet XXXV 1 min 36 Sonnet XXXVI 1 min 37 Sonnet XXXVII 1 min 38 Sonnet XXXVIII 1 min 39 Sonnet XXXIX 1 min 40 Sonnet XL 1 min 41 Sonnet XLI 1 min 42 Sonnet XLII 1 min 43 Sonnet XLIII 1 min 44 Sonnet XLIV 1 min 45 Sonnet XLV 1 min 46 Sonnet XLVI 1 min 47 Sonnet XLVII 1 min 48 Sonnet XLVIII 1 min 49 Sonnet XLIX 1 min 50 Sonnet L 1 min 51 Sonnet LI 1 min 52 Sonnet LII 1 min 53 Sonnet LIII 1 min 54 Sonnet LIV 1 min 55 Sonnet LV 1 min 56 Sonnet LVI 1 min 57 Sonnet LVII 1 min 58 Sonnet LVIII 1 min 59 Sonnet LIX 1 min 60 Sonnet LX 1 min 61 The Vision Of Jehovah 9 min 62 The New Moon 1 min 63 The Poppy 1 min 64 Books 2 min 65 When I Was Six 2 min 66 My Muse 1 min 67 Seascape 1 min 68 The Perfect Rhyme 1 min 69 Memory 1 min 70 The Fairies' Fair 2 min 71 Pain 5 min 72 April-Laughter 2 min 73 The Poets Garden 1 min 74 The Rainbow 1 min 75 Fortune 1 min 76 Holiday Humour 1 min 77 To A Favourite Poet 1 min 78 In A Garden 2 min 79 Girl Gladness 1 min 80 If I Were A Poet 1 min 81 Grief 2 min 82 Thou Shall Not 1 min 83 The Open Air 3 min 84 The Birthday Of The Dead 1 min 85 Only Sir Galahad 3 min 86 The Triumph Of Eve 8 min 87 Outside The Gate 2 min 88 Sonnets Of The South I 1 min 89 Sonnets Of The South II 1 min 90 Sonnets Of The South III 1 min 91 Sonnets Of The South IV 1 min 92 Sonnets Of The South V 1 min 93 Sonnets Of The South VI 1 min 94 The Ragnarok Of Regeneration 9 min 95 Wedded 2 min 96 The Bridal Ode 2 min 97 Night-Ride 2 min 98 No Woman's Land 1 min 99 Spring 2 min 100 The Babies's Bay 2 min 101 Gods At Gallipoli 6 min 102 Sonnet X (Exp.Version) 1 min 103 Sonnett XIV(Exp. Version) 1 min 104 The Sisters of Sorrow 3 min 105 Poor Fools! 5 min
