Poets & Their Trades - Lawyers (Audiobook)

Read by Nigel Davenport, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 01:22mins)

Featuring stories by John Donne, Wallace Stevens, William Cullen Bryant, James Weldon Johnson, Patrick Pearse, Tom Kettle, Thomas Stanley, Herbert Asquith, Jacopone da Todi, John Payne, Owen Seaman, John Pierpoint & many more

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.

In this volume we bring together those professionals we engage to bring the full force of the law to bear where we have been wronged, either personally or professionally. Despite the complex morals of such work their verse sparkles with knowing and humane wisdom.

1 - Poets & Their Trades - Lawyers - An Introduction

2 - The Good Morrow by John Donne

3 - The Ectasy by John Donne

4 - A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne

5 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

6 - Poetry is a Destructive Force by Wallace Stevens

7 - A Continual Conversaton with a Silent Man by Wallace Stevens

8 - The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant

9 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant

10 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant

11 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson

12 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson

13 - Listen Lord, A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson

14 - And the Greatest of These Is War by James Weldon Johnson

15 - The Rebel by Patrick Pearse

16 - The Mother by Patrick Pearce

17 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse

18 - Sonnet I by Sir John Davies

19 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies

20 - The Dignity of Man by Sir John Davis

21 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle

22 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle

23 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville

24 - Cashel of Munster by Samuel Ferguson

25 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley

26 - The Relapse by Thomas Stanley

27 - The Repulse by Thomas Stanley

28 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith

29 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith

30 - A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset

31 - Prayer for the Slave by John Pierpoint

32 - The Economy of Slavery by John Pierpoint

33 - The Deserter's Meditation by John Philpot Curran

34 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi

35 - Rapture Divine by Jacopone da Todi

36 - March by John Payne

37 - September by John Payne

38 - Thomas of the Light Heart by Owen Seaman

39 - The Avengers by Owen Seaman

40 - Pro Patria by Owen Seaman

41 - Any Father To Any Son by F B Money-Coutts

42 - A Riddle by Francis Scott Key

43 - Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Kay

44 - Hades by Robert C O Benjamon

45 - The Battle of the Cowpens January 18th, 1781 by Thomas Dunn