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City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

Name: City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems
Author: James Thomson

James Thomson

Read by MoonLylith · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Front matter. Proem. The City of Dreadful Night Parts 1-10 (45:09)
The City of Dreadful Night Parts 11-21 (42:36)
To our ladies of death (17:43)
Insomnia (21:52)
He Heard Her Sing (20:55)
In the Room (12:46)
A Voice from the Nile (15:07)
The Poet and his Muse (11:16)
Mater Tenebrarum (3:54)
L'Ancien Régime (5:07)
The Sleeper (5:56)
On a Broken Pipe (0:42)
Day (0:55)
Night (1:16)
William Blake (1:17)
E.B.B. (1:56)
The Fire That Filled My Heart of Old (1:34)
Song (1:49)
A Requiem (1:50)