Audiobooks by Christina Georgina Rossetti

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty and profound emotions of Christina Rossetti's poetry. With a delicate touch and a keen eye for detail, Rossetti explores themes of love, loss, faith, and nature. Her words, like fragrant blossoms, unfold with a quiet intensity, inviting you into a world of introspection and wonder. From the passionate verses of youth to the contemplative reflections of maturity, this collection offers a rich tapestry of human experience. Prepare to be captivated by the lyrical genius of a true poetic master."

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author), Digital Voice Madison G (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - England

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - England - An Introduction 2 - Jerusalem by William Blake 3 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 4 - The Lambs of Grassmere by Christina Georgina Rossetti 5 - Happy Is England by John Keats 6 - This England (from Richard II) by William Shakespeare 7 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 8 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 9 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 10 - A Shropshire Lad XXXI - On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble by A E Housman 11 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 12 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 13 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley"

A E Housman, Charlotte Smith, Christina Georgina Rossetti, John Clare, John Dryden, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth (Author), Eve Karpf, Jake Urry (Narrator)

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The Story of Salome

"Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London. She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12. Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles.In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read. This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist's life as scandalous. Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage. Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing. Her early novels were well received, and with 'Barbara's History' in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established. Amelia's pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day.In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off. In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women. From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892. During this relationship other women also entered and left her life. Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology. Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation. To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds.After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, 'the Godmother of Egyptology' died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare. She was 60. In this Venetian set story Edwards follows the trail of a man who, after the briefest of meetings, falls in love with a young Jewish girl, who has but one request of him."

Amelia B. Edwards, Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Weddings

"‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its hopes and dreams on a love-strewn path to the future, even eternity. From here life has its own way of changing, modifying and disrupting the true course of married love for many of us. In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution. From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path. Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s."

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Khalil Gibran, W B Yeats (Author), Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Dreams

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Dreams - An Introduction2 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe3 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne4 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill5 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti6 - The Dream by Amy Levy7 - The Dream by John Donne8 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado9 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri10 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane11 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox12 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker13 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca"

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Tim Graham (Narrator)

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A Rhyme A Dozen - Summer

"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Summer - An Introduction2 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare3 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson4 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau5 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox6 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley7 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay8 - A Summer Night by George William Russell9 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar10 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran11 - Summer by Christina Rossetti12 - Sonnet 13 - Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke13 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore"

Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Shakespeare (Author), Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Fifty Shades of December

"The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter; wind, storms, silence. Our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Hardy, Shakespeare, Rossetti, Nesbit, Burns and a wealth of others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of inky marvel."

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Cats

"The cat. Independent when it wants and making us dependent on its whims when it deems. Cats are first thought of as being domesticated in the Near East in about 7500 BC. A few thousand years later in Ancient Egypt they are worshipped as gods. From a domestic cat's point of view this is pretty much the life they want and that some cats lead right now. Their larger cousins whether in forest, savannah, mountains or desert were fated for their speed, strength, beauty, feline powers and prowess. They now live in a finely balanced world between freedom and declining numbers as their habitats are destroyed or taken from them. Across the centuries poets have written verse that captures all manner of thoughts on our complex relationship with all cats, though mainly the humble moggy, on whose whims we slave over, eager for a look of recognition, the nod of thanks or the purr of gratitude. 1 - The Poetry of Cats - An Introduction2 - The Cat and the Moon by William Butler Yeats3 - The Cat by Charles Baudelaire4 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett5 - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear6 - An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman7 - To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Watson8 - Verses on a Cat by Percy Bysshe Shelley9 - Milk For the Cat by Harold Munro10 - The Cats Have Come To Tea by Kate Greenaway11 - St Jerome's Cat by Anonymous12 - The Lazy Pussy by Palmer Cox13 - Sad Memories by Charles Calverly14 - Mrs Reynold's Cat by John Keats15 - Mujer by William Carlos Williams16 - Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke17 - The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese18 - A Cat by Edward Thomas19 - The Cat of the House by Ford Madox Ford20 - To Winky by Amy Lowell21 - The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke22 - Jaguar by Lola Ridge23 - Julbilate Agno by Christopher Smart24 - Little Tiger by H P Lovecraft25 - The Tiger by William Blake26 - Sonnet XIX - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws by William Shakespeare27 - The Lion Who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox by Rumi28 - The Eagle, The Sow and the Cat by Anne Kingsmill Finch29 - The Vain Cat by Ambrose Bierce30 - To A Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne31 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field32 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman33 - The Old Cat and the Young Mouse by Jean De La Fontaine34 - The Cat and the Old Rat by Jean de la Fontaine35 - The Rat-Catcher and Cats by John Gay36 - Two Little Kittens by Anonymous37 - Familiarity Dangerous by William Cowper38 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth39 - The First Cat by Arthur Guiterman40 - Had Tiberius Been a Cat by Matthew Arnold41 - An Oxford Don Curses his Cat by Thomas Master42 - Pangur Ban - The Scholar and His Cat by Anonymous43 - Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray44 - On the Death of a Cat by Christina Georgina Rossetti45 - Epitaph on a Pet Cat by Joachim Du Bellay46 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy"

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Nigel Planer, Stephen Hogan (Narrator)

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Poems to Make You Cry

"Tears. Sometimes our greatest comfort. Often our darkest fear that we are about to be overwhelmed by sudden and uncontrollable feelings.From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes. There is something primordial in their arrival. We may be the only animal to actually cry and scientists in their wish to explain everything cite the simultaneous release of endorphins to help relieve the emotional stress, the physical pain, as vital to restore the sense of calm and well-being. But not everything can be explained and pigeon-holed with certainty.Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost. From Owen and Dickenson to Wheatly and Hopkins our surrender to tears may not be far away. 1 - Poems to Make You Cry - An Introduction2 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman3 - Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare4 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy5 - So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron6 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats7 - Sonnet 90 - Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now by William Shakespeare8 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale9 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis10 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones11 - Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris12 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele13 - How Sweet I Roam'd From Field to Field by William Blake14 - When I Have Fears by John Keats15 - The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold16 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar17 - I Am by John Clare18 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox19 - Ode XIV - To Solitude by Joseph Warton20 - Solitude by Harold Munro21 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker22 - A Thought For a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning23 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe24 - Piano by D H Lawrence25 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken26 - Sonnet 66. Tired With All These, For Restful Death by William Shakespeare27 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar28 - No Worse There is None. Pitched Past, Pitch of Grief by Gerard Manley Hopkins29 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill-Finch30 - Melancholia by Robert Seymour Bridges31 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde32 - The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood33 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay34 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier35 - The Lynching by Claude McKay36 - Poems on the Slave Trade. Sonnet VI by Robert Southey37 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton38 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper39 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow40 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon41 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen42 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney43 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae44 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger45 - Fallen by Alice Corbin46 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas47 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wildred Owen48 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling49 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa50 - Bereavement In Their Death To Feel by Emily Dickinson51 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte52 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington53 - Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow by Christina Rossetti54 - A Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew55 - To One in Grief by Katharine Tynan56 - I Measure Every Grief by Emily Dickinson57 - Tears Idle Tears from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson58 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe59 - Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous60 - John Barleycorn, A Ballad by Robert Burns61 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan62 - Remember by Christina Rossetti63 - Epitaph Upon a Child That Died by Robert Herrick64 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley65 - On the Death of a Child by Edward Silvera66 - On My First Son by Ben Jonson67 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar68 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham"

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Emily Dickenson, William Shakespeare (Author), Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Poetry of the Moon & Stars

"The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone and the nocturnal times reveal themselves. But above the dark blanket the moon, whether waxing or waning, stands sentry and around it vast clouds and swirls of stars regiment themselves. We look up in awe and wonder, frail beneath their vista.Our gloried poets are on hand though to capture word and deed, emotion and feeling, friend and foe. Among our ranks of astounding talents are Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Hardy, Poe, Shelley, Longfellow and many more beside. Their descriptions capture what they see and feel and describe as perhaps only a poet can. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations."

A. E. Housman, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Christina Georgina Rossetti: The Poetry

"Christina Georgina Rossetti - An Introduction. Christina was born in London in 1830 one of four children who were all to become artists and writers. Educated at home, her life was filled with the Italian influences of her Father and the wide ranging interests of her mother. She began to write at age 12 as her Fathers health broke and the family's descended to near poverty. She first published aged 18 and over the following decade her writing was to flourish and in 1860 her most famous work Goblin Market was released and her reputation was set. A sufferer from Graves disease from the 1870's she also developed breast cancer which subsequently recurred and was to cause her death in 1894. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Our poems are; Christina Georgina Rossetti - An Introduction, A Birthday, A Pause Of Thought, A Study, A Soul, Sonnets Are Full Of Love, Dreamland; Echo, By The Sea, Ferry Me Across The Water, Frog & Toad, If A Mouse Could Fly, The City Mouse And The Country Mouse, Lambs At Play, A Spring Carol, In The Willow Shade, Summer, Summer Is Ended, If All Were Rain And Never Sun, An October Garden, Christmas Eve, Good Friday, A Years Windfalls, How Many Seconds In A Minute, Who Has Seen The World, Wife To Husband, Bitter For Sweet, If Stars Dropped Out Of Heaven, An Emerald Is As Green As Grass, Is The Moon Tired, Goblin Market, In The Bleak Midwinter, Winter - My Secret, January Cold Desolate, After This The Judgement, After Death, Sappho, Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow, Dead Before Death, Life And Death, Remember & Requiem. Among our readers are David Shaw-Parker and Ghizela Rowe."

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Sonnet

"The original meaning of the word derives from the Italian word 'sonetto' meaning 'little song'. Traditionally a sonnet has fourteen lines. Perhaps the best known writer of sonnets is William Shakespeare who wrote 154 of them. Of course with any set form it evolves and over the centuries sonnets have. But as poems, as expressions they have captured our imaginations as few other poetical forms have. Our readers include Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe."

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare (Author), Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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