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Poems

Name: Poems
Author: George Santayana

George Santayana

Read by Larry Wilson, Algy Pug, Sharon Handy, kehayman, Guest, SkyAlbatross, monkeywraith, Freya Hansen and Kane Mercer · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (10:44)
Sonnets 1883 -1893 1-5 (4:51)
Sonnets 6-10 (4:50)
Sonnets 11-15 (4:44)
Sonnets 16-20 (4:54)
Sonnets 1895 and after 21-25 (5:05)
Sonnets 26-30 (5:10)
Sonnets 31-35 (4:54)
Sonnets 36-40 (4:55)
Sonnets 41-45 (4:55)
Sonnets 46-50 (4:54)
Miscellaneous Sonnets (1-3) (3:23)
Miscellaneous Sonnets - to W.P. (4:09)
Miscellaneous Sonnets - Before a Statue of Achilles, The Rustic at the Play (4:09)
Odes 1-2 (3:20)
Ode 3 (3:31)
Odes 4-5 (3:25)
Athletic Ode (6:31)
Cape Cod (2:15)
A Toast (1:36)
Premonition (1:58)
Solipsism (1:44)
Sybaris (4:19)
Avila (4:32)
Kings College Chapel (8:21)
On an Unfinished Statue by Michael Angelo in the Bargello, called an Apollo or a David (4:17)
Midnight (1:43)
In Grantchester Meadows On First Hearing a Skylark Sing (1:59)
Spain in America (19:00)
A Minuet on Reaching the Age of Fifty (3:33)
Translations: From Michael Angelo (2:59)
Translations: From Theophile Gautier (2:22)
A Spaniard in England - an essay by Edmund Gosse (10:35)