Audiobooks by Alice Meynell

"In these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone's passing. Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one generation to the next, as an often lonely voice extols the virtues and traits of the one who has passed. But these two very early forms of poetry, dating back to at least Ovid and probably further, are also surprising in their lyrical touch. These are not just mournful and sad but also whimsical or rich with celebration and tribute as they journey through joy, laughter, love, tears and comfort. Our Classic Poets, who have specifically chosen to include the form in the title of their work, include the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Aphra Behn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Radclyffe Hall and many others of equal measure are always surprising in their views, their analysis and their sharing of words and thoughts, offering feelings that mirror our own and provide a balm of many hues for our wounded and tender souls. 1 - Elegies and Laments - An Introduction 2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 3 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 4 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham 5 - Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke 6 - Elegy - Supposed to Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 7 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 8 - A Lament by Radclyffe Hall 9 - An Elegy by Ben Jonson 10 - Laeta - A Lament by HP Lovecraft 11 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn 12 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 13 - Morning Lament by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 14 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 15 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston 16 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro 17 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 18 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 19 - Elegy by Anna Seward 20 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris 21 - Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns 22 - Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet 23 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 24 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 25 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 26 - The Slave's Lament by Benjamin Cutler Clark 27 - The Slaves Lament by Robert Burns 28 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan 29 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 30 - Lament in 1915 by Harold Munro 31 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 32 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope 33 - Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Bethrothed Killed by Robert Seymour Bridges 34 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay 35 - The Mother's Lament For Her Infant by Lucretia Maria Davidson 36 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton 37 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 38 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 39 - Elegy on the Earl of Rochester by Anne Wharton 40 - Elegy on William Shakespeare by William Basse 41 - Adonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley"

Alexander Pope, Alice Meynell, Anne Wharton, Ben Jonson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Francis Ledwidge, H.P. Lovecraft, John Clare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Radclyffe Hall, Robert Burns, Thomas Chatterton, Wilfred Owen (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley, Sean Barrett (Narrator)

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The Power of Poetry - Poems To Mend A Broken Heart

"1 - The Power of Poetry - Poems to Mend a Broken Heart - An Introduction2 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe3 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne4 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling5 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay6 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson-7 - My Own Heart|And Where|And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay28 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell29 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman30 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt31 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare32 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith33 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas34 - My Heart Cries by Kabir35 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare36 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton37 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron38 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford39 - February by Edith Nesbit40 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley41 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall42 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke43 - Jealously by Radclyffe Hall44 - Spring Morning by A. E. Housman45 - To His Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton46 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal47 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton48 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon49 - Modern Love - II by George Meredith50 - Divorce by Anna Wickham51 - Modern Love - I by George Meredith52 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal53 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats54 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow55 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes56 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke57 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney|Countess of Pembroke58 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot|Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins8 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt9 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham10 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn11 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman12 - A Poor Torn Heart|Let Me Have More|a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson13 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor14 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg15 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew16 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox17 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde18 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti19 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy20 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit21 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen22 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather23 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg24 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges25 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew26 - May by Sara Teasdale27 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

A. E. Housman, Alice Meynell, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Nesbit, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Kabir, Michael Drayton, Robert Seymour Bridges, Rupert Brooke, T S Eliot, William Shakespeare (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Poets on Poets

"Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter. Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return. In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves. Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers. Some are deeply personal others are abstract. Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare22 - London Poets by Amy Levy23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker57 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu58 - A Poet's Dying Hymn by Grace Aguilar59 - The Poet's Death by John Clare60 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy61 - At a Poet's Grave by Francis Ledwidge62 - To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He hath Left Us by Ben Jonson63 - The Poet and His Book by Edna St Vincent Millay64 - The Passionate Reader to His Poet by Richard Le Gallienne"

Alice Meynell, Thomas Hood (Author), Mark Rice-Oxley, Shyama Perera (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Alice Meynell

"Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London.Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice's early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion brought a conversion to the Catholic faith. Much of that viewpoint is seen in her first published volume in 1875, 'Preludes'.In 1876 she married Wilfred Meynell, the newspaper publisher and editor and together they set up and published a number of magazines as well as publishing the initial works of several poets including Francis Thompson.Despite a hectic lifestyle of her own poetry and essays together with the family business she gave birth to eight children. Her health though was erratic, and she was frequently incapacitated by illness including migraines and depressions.As the new century dawned she along with many other artists began to question the colonial needs of Empire with its segregation and oppression. In particular she sought and gained a role in the Women's Suffrage movement as it attempted to obtain greater equality for women. Today Alice is often overlooked for the quality and stature of her poetry which, during her career brought serious official consideration. She was twice considered but passed over for the post of poet laureate after the deaths of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin.Alice Meynell died on 27th November 1922. She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.1 - The Poetry of Alice Meynell - An Introduction2 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell3 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell4 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell5 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell6 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell7 - In February by Alice Meynell8 - Cradle-Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell9 - Song. As the Inhastening Tide Doth Roll by Alice Meynell10 - Song of the Day to the Night by Alice Meynell11 - Soeur Monique. A Rondeau by Couperin by Alice Meynell12 - To A Lost Melody by Alice Meynell13 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell14 - A Shattered Lute by Alice Meynell15 - Regrets by Alice Meynell16 - Parted by Alice Meynell17 - After A Parting by Alice Meynell18 - Sonnet. Thoughts in Separation by Alice Meynell19 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell20 - My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden by Alice Meynell21 - Your Own Fair Youth by Alice Meynell22 - The Lover Urges the Better Thrift by Alice Meynell23 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell24 - The Love of Narcissus by Alice Meynell25 - An Unmarked Festival by Alice Meynell26 - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age by Alice Meynell27 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell28 - Maternity by Alice Meynell29 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell30 - Summer In England 1914 by Alice Meynell31 - The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell32 - Builders of Ruins by Alice Meynell33 - The Lady Poverty by Alice Meynell34 - At Night by Alice Meynell35 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell36 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell37 - Christ in The Universe by Alice Meynell38 - Veni Creator by Alice Meynell"

Alice Meynell (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Libby Brunton (Narrator)

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Victorian Poetry - Volume 3

"Victorian Poetry - Volume 3 - An Introduction. Victoria's reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of their poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age. In Volume 3 we collect together Alice Meynell to WB Yeats. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe."

Alice Meynell, Augusta Davies Webster, William Thackeray (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Kensal Green (Stories & Poems)

"Curved up against the Harrow road in London is one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries that began to girdle the capital in the Victorian Age. Gone were the overcrowded disease ridden Parish churchyards and here was a new way to rest for eternity. Acre upon acre of meandering lawn and tree lined avenues. Ornate catacombs. Beautiful sculptured memorials. Stately chapels. All enmeshed into Nature's emotions. Peace, perfect peace. In this volume we bring you the works of Kensal Rises most famous residents: Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alice Meynell and Thomas Hood. And we start with the poem by GK Chesterton who although not buried here immortalised it with 'The Rolling English Road'."

Alice Meynell, Thomas Hood, William Makepeace Tahckeray (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age

Alice Meynell (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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A Thrush Before Dawn

Alice Meynell (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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The Fold

"Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians', the Zulus', the Boxer Rebellion, and the Muslim revolt led by Muhammad Ahmed in the Sudan), many European scholars, writers, and artists, began to question Europe's colonial imperialism. This led the Meynells and others in their circle to speak out for the oppressed. Alice Meynell was a vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, founded by Cicely Hamilton and active 1908-19. - Summary by Wikipedia"

Alice Meynell (Author), LibriVox Volunteers (Narrator)

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