The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas


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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 (2 hr 23 min)

Chapters

Preface 0:40 Read by Rob Marland
Apologia 1:24 Read by Larry Wilson
Autumn Days 1:14 Read by Phil Schempf
To Shakespeare 1:02 Read by Hernandez
Amoris Vincula 1:01 Read by Hernandez
A Summer Storm 0:55 Read by Valentina Vocelli
A Winter Sunset 0:55 Read by Valentina Vocelli
In Summer 1:14 Read by Valentina Vocelli
In Winter 0:56 Read by Valentina Vocelli
In Sarum Close 1:08 Read by Hernandez
The Sphynx 1:03 Read by Andrew Gaunce
Impression de Nuit 1:11 Read by Hernandez
To L— 0:55 Read by Andrew Gaunce
Night Coming Into a Garden 0:58 Read by Connie Bettison
Night Coming Out of a Garden 1:07 Read by Connie Bettison
Perkin Warbeck 6:10 Read by Connie Bettison
A Song 0:54 Read by Connie Bettison
Plainte Eternelle 2:42 Read by Alan Mapstone
Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys 7:13 Read by Rob Marland
A Prayer 1:25 Read by Larry Wilson
In Memoriam: Francis Archibald Douglas 1:39 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Image of Death 1:27 Read by Larry Wilson
Vae Victis! 2:15 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The Garden of Death 1:50 Read by Valentina Vocelli
To Sleep 1:14 Read by Phil Schempf
Ode to My Soul 1:16 Read by Larry Wilson
Rejected 2:49 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Travelling Companion 1:22 Read by Emmi Kranz
The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo 2:17 Read by Alan Mapstone
Spring 1:48 Read by Emmi Kranz
Ennui 1:51 Read by Emmi Kranz
Wine of Summer 5:17 Read by Rob Marland
Ode to Autumn 2:45 Read by Phil Schempf
Harmonie du Soir 1:44 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Le Balcon 2:25 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Ballad of Saint Vitus 8:47 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The City of the Soul 4:08 Read by Alan Mapstone
Sonnet on the Sonnet 1:10 Read by Rob Marland
A Triad of the Moon 3:03 Read by Alan Mapstone
Proem 1:39 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Dedication to "Sonnets" (1909) 1:27 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The Dead Poet 1:26 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Dies Amara Valde 1:26 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
To a Silent Poet 1:25 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The Traitor 1:24 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Beauty and the Hunter 1:27 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Rewards 1:34 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Silence 1:24 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
The Green River 1:29 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
La Beauté 1:32 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Sois Sage O Ma Douleur 1:33 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
To Olive 4:35 Read by The Scholar of No Importance
Forgetfulness 1:05 Read by Larry Wilson
Premonition 1:08 Read by Larry Wilson
The Witch 1:48 Read by Alan Mapstone
Behold, Your House is Left Unto You Desolate 1:12 Read by Larry Wilson
The End of Illusion 1:45 Read by Shreya Sethi
Canker Blooms 1:32 Read by Shreya Sethi
The Unspeakable Englishman 1:21 Read by Rob Marland
Lighten our Darkness 1:04 Read by Andrew Gaunce
English Benedictines 1:37 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
On a Showing of the Nativity 1:24 Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Before a Crucifix 1:17 Read by Larry Wilson
Note 22:25 Read by Rob Marland