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Audiobooks by William Ernest Henley
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"William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus” speaks from within suffering rather than about it from a distance. The poem does not describe pain in detail, yet its presence is constant, shaping the speaker’s outlook and resolve. Darkness, chance, and punishment are acknowledged as real forces, but they are not granted authority over the speaker’s inner life. The poem’s strength lies in its quiet refusal to be inwardly defeated."
"Do men need poems?Is the gender of brawn and 'can-do' really a candidate for honeyed verse?Obviously yes. Through the centuries men seem to dominate the writing of poetry. From books of epics to quatrains of love poetry it seemed to be a man's world. His domain.But take away the stirring deeds of adventure and much of what remains was written in the admiration or pursuit of women.A volume purely for men, to show other facets of their personalities and characters seems to be an obvious choice. One verse fits all is, in fact, far removed from the truth.Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved.1 - Poems for Men - An Introduction 2 - If by Rudyard Kipling3 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley4 - A Man's A Man For A' That by Robert Burns5 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow6 - For the Man Who Fails by Paul Laurence Dunbar7 - The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon8 - Is There Any Wise Man by Kabir9 - I Saw a Man Pursuing The Horizon by Stephen Crane10 - Till Man Destroy's Self by Rumi11 - A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky by Stephen Crane12 - An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope13 - A Man Went Before A Strange God by Stephen Crane14 - Wondrous Sight For Men by Ann Griffiths15 - The Man to the Angel by George William Russell16 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall17 - A Man Toiled on a Burning Road by Stephen Crane18 - Ay, Workman, Make Me a Dream by Stephen Crane19 - To a Gentleman by Robert Burns20 - St Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett21 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley22 - The True Born Englishman (An Excerpt) by Daniel Defoe23 - England to Free Men by John Galsworthy24 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth25 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare26 - Song. That Women Are But Men's Shadows by Ben Jonson27 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning28 - Women's Tongue by Robert Tannahill29 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz30 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence31 - Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare32 - Men Are Heavens Piers by Robert Louis Stevenson33 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron34 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker35 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton36 - The Merman by Alfred Lord Tennyson37 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling38 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson39 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes40 - John Marr and Other Sailors by Herman Melville41 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes42 - Sailing To Byzantium by W B Yeats43 - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats44 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley45 - The Youth of Man by Matthew Arnold46 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats47 - The Man Who Will Not Know Another by Patrick Branwell Bronte48 - Of Any Old Man by Isaac Rosenberg49 - Old Man by Edward Thomas50 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats51 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh52 - The Parable of the Old Man & the Young by Wilfred Owen53 - Men Who March Away by Thomas Hardy54 - For the Men at the Front by John Oxenham55 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg56 - Marching Men by Marjorie Pickthall57 - I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench by Walter S S Lyon58 - The Three Lads by Elizabeth Chandler Forman59 - A Ballad of the Ranks by Arthur Conan Doyle60 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon61 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke62 - Soldier From the Wars Returning by A E Housman63 - I Saw a Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart64 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson65 - The Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson66 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant67 - Dupont''s Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville68 - Dance of the Hanged Men by Arthur Rimbaud69 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier70 - The Madman's Song by John Webster71 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis72 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke73 - The Father by Katharine Tynan74 - Come Up from the Fields Father by Walt Whitman75 - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne76 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy77 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke78 - Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman79 - The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy80 - The Dying Man and the Vulture by Khalil Gibran81 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne"
"London, A City In Words - Every country has its capital, its centre for governance and culture. Only a few capitals can lay claim to being known the world over. London is one of the few. Its sense and scale of history, its rich, diverse culture, its triumphs and its failures and most of all, its people provide the world with an enduring mark of mankind striving to make good, to make better. Our poets, including Blake, Hardy, Patmore, Wordsworth, Arnold, Kipling and many others, here collect their thoughts, gather their words and deliver poems on the subject of this, our city."
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