Poems


Read by Bruce Kachuk

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 (2 hr 26 min)

Chapters

The Poet's Secret 1:33 Read by Bruce Kachuk
November 1:21 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Music in a Crowd 1:56 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"I Live Within the Stranger's Gate" 2:01 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The House of Youth 3:43 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The House by the Sea 2:53 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Christmas Comes Again 3:19 Read by Bruce Kachuk
March 1:13 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Spring Afar 1:35 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Why? 1:24 Read by Bruce Kachuk
August 1:18 Read by Bruce Kachuk
October 1:12 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"The Willow Boughs are Yellow Now" 1:23 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"In the Still, Star-Lit Night" 1:38 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Autumn 1:20 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Autumn Sheaf 1:45 Read by Bruce Kachuk
In the City 1:49 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"I Love You, but a Sense of Pain" 1:50 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Nameless Pain 1:23 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Baby Song 1:26 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Wife Speaks 2:07 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Husband Speaks 1:55 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"One Morn I Left Him in His Bed" 2:05 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Before the Mirror 2:15 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"The Shadows on the Water Reach" 0:53 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Summer Night 0:57 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"Fan Me with these Lilies Fair" 1:13 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"Oh, the Wild, Wild Days of Youth!" 1:01 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"On my Bed of a Winter Night" 1:00 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"Hallo! My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go?" 0:48 Read by Bruce Kachuk
You Left Me 1:03 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"O Friend, begin a Loftier Song" 1:34 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"Now That the Pain is Gone, I Too Can Smile" 2:24 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Colonel's Shield 1:46 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Few Idle Words 2:41 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Vers de Société 2:49 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Race 4:18 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Wolf-Tamer 1:47 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Abbot of Unreason 1:35 Read by Bruce Kachuk
El Manolo 1:24 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Mercedes 1:43 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Bull-Fight 2:22 Read by Bruce Kachuk
On the Campagna 1:51 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Queen Deposed 2:24 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Unit 3:02 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Zanthon - My Friend 4:09 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Achilles in Orcus 3:12 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Above the Tree 1:50 Read by Bruce Kachuk
To an Artist 1:10 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Landscape 2:02 Read by Bruce Kachuk
From the Headland 2:57 Read by Bruce Kachuk
As One 2:37 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Visitings of Truth Known Elsewhere 2:51 Read by Bruce Kachuk
We Must Wait 4:10 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Unreturning 3:22 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Closed 1:44 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Memory is Immortal 4:43 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Tryst 2:58 Read by Bruce Kachuk
No Answer 2:04 Read by Bruce Kachuk
On the Hilltop 3:47 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Message 4:39 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Exile 2:44 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Seaside Idyl 5:35 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Chimney-Swallow's Idyl 3:34 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Last Days 2:54 Read by Bruce Kachuk