Poems

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Elizabeth Stoddard In Year : 1895

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Poems

The Poet's Secret
November
Music in a Crowd
"I Live Within the Stranger's Gate"
The House of Youth
The House by the Sea
Christmas Comes Again
March
The Spring Afar
Why?
August
October
"The Willow Boughs are Yellow Now"
"In the Still, Star-Lit Night"
Autumn
The Autumn Sheaf
In the City
"I Love You, but a Sense of Pain"
Nameless Pain
A Baby Song
The Wife Speaks
The Husband Speaks
"One Morn I Left Him in His Bed"
Before the Mirror
"The Shadows on the Water Reach"
A Summer Night
"Fan Me with these Lilies Fair"
"Oh, the Wild, Wild Days of Youth!"
"On my Bed of a Winter Night"
"Hallo! My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go?"
You Left Me
"O Friend, begin a Loftier Song"
"Now That the Pain is Gone, I Too Can Smile"
The Colonel's Shield
A Few Idle Words
Vers de Société
The Race
The Wolf-Tamer
The Abbot of Unreason
El Manolo
Mercedes
The Bull-Fight
On the Campagna
The Queen Deposed
A Unit
Zanthon - My Friend
Achilles in Orcus
Above the Tree
To an Artist
A Landscape
From the Headland
As One
The Visitings of Truth Known Elsewhere
We Must Wait
Unreturning
Closed
Memory is Immortal
The Tryst
No Answer
On the Hilltop
The Message
Exile
A Seaside Idyl
The Chimney-Swallow's Idyl
Last Days

These outstanding poems by the renowned author Elizabeth Stoddard speak of the poet's hunger for the freedom of an idyllic future - a hunger enhanced by a contagious idealism characteristic of Stoddard's exceptional poetic dexterity.

These are poems that elevate the listener to levels only dreamed of by the poet herself - to visions of freedom based on the essential and universal craving of a soul burdened, indeed caught within a mundane world of the commonplace.

Abundant in these works is the poet's empathy with the plight of mankind whom she envisions as trapped on a treadmill, vainly attempting to escape the traditional but remaining caught and destined - albeit while on the very threshold of an existence shaped by the reality of the struggle - to re-emerge into a world which is in a profusion of anguishing ways dishearteningly similar to that of before.

Elizabeth Stoddard's relentless pursuit in verse of the happiness that accompanies an idealized life free from social restraints and limitations has produced this collection of some of the finest poetical works of the late nineteenth century. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk