Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Douglas
64 chapters · 2 h 23 min · English
Read by Rob Marland, Larry Wilson, Phil Schempf, Hernandez, Valentina Vocelli, Andrew Gaunce and others
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This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of his youth. Douglas was primarily a sonneteer, and this collection features shorter poems about love, hatred, nature, religion, death, and even the art of poetry itself. It does not include Two Loves, the poem made famous by Oscar Wilde’s defence of it in his 1895 trials. - Summary by Rob Marland
Chapters
1 Preface 1 min 2 Apologia 1 min 3 Autumn Days 1 min 4 To Shakespeare 1 min 5 Amoris Vincula 1 min 6 A Summer Storm 1 min 7 A Winter Sunset 1 min 8 In Summer 1 min 9 In Winter 1 min 10 In Sarum Close 1 min 11 The Sphynx 1 min 12 Impression de Nuit 1 min 13 To L 1 min 14 Night Coming Into a Garden 1 min 15 Night Coming Out of a Garden 1 min 16 Perkin Warbeck 6 min 17 A Song 1 min 18 Plainte Eternelle 3 min 19 Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys 7 min 20 A Prayer 1 min 21 In Memoriam: Francis Archibald Douglas 2 min 22 The Image of Death 1 min 23 Vae Victis! 2 min 24 The Garden of Death 2 min 25 To Sleep 1 min 26 Ode to My Soul 1 min 27 Rejected 3 min 28 The Travelling Companion 1 min 29 The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo 2 min 30 Spring 2 min 31 Ennui 2 min 32 Wine of Summer 5 min 33 Ode to Autumn 3 min 34 Harmonie du Soir 2 min 35 Le Balcon 2 min 36 The Ballad of Saint Vitus 9 min 37 The City of the Soul 4 min 38 Sonnet on the Sonnet 1 min 39 A Triad of the Moon 3 min 40 Proem 2 min 41 Dedication to "Sonnets" (1909) 1 min 42 The Dead Poet 1 min 43 Dies Amara Valde 1 min 44 To a Silent Poet 1 min 45 The Traitor 1 min 46 Beauty and the Hunter 1 min 47 Rewards 2 min 48 Silence 1 min 49 The Green River 1 min 50 La Beauté 2 min 51 Sois Sage O Ma Douleur 2 min 52 To Olive 5 min 53 Forgetfulness 1 min 54 Premonition 1 min 55 The Witch 2 min 56 Behold, Your House is Left Unto You Desolate 1 min 57 The End of Illusion 2 min 58 Canker Blooms 2 min 59 The Unspeakable Englishman 1 min 60 Lighten our Darkness 1 min 61 English Benedictines 2 min 62 On a Showing of the Nativity 1 min 63 Before a Crucifix 1 min 64 Note 22 min
