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Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 47mins)
Featuring poems by Rudyard Kipling, William Wordsworth, Daniel Defoe, William Shakespeare, WB Yeats & others.
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.
In this compilation -
1 - Poems for Men - An Introduction |
2 - If by Rudyard Kipling |
3 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley |
4 - A Man's A Man For A' That by Robert Burns |
5 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
6 - For the Man Who Fails by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
7 - The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon |
8 - Is There Any Wise Man by Kabir |
9 - I Saw a Man Pursuing The Horizon by Stephen Crane |
10 - Till Man Destroy's Self by Rumi |
11 - A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky by Stephen Crane |
12 - An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope |
13 - A Man Went Before A Strange God by Stephen Crane |
14 - Wondrous Sight For Men by Ann Griffiths |
15 - The Man to the Angel by George William Russell |
16 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall |
17 - A Man Toiled on a Burning Road by Stephen Crane |
18 - Ay, Workman, Make Me a Dream by Stephen Crane |
19 - To a Gentleman by Robert Burns |
20 - St Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett |
21 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
22 - The True Born Englishman (An Excerpt) by Daniel Defoe |
23 - England to Free Men by John Galsworthy |
24 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth |
25 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare |
26 - Song. That Women Are But Men's Shadows by Ben Jonson |
27 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning |
28 - Women's Tongue by Robert Tannahill |
29 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |
30 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence |
31 - Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare |
32 - Men Are Heavens Piers by Robert Louis Stevenson |
33 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron |
34 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker |
35 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton |
36 - The Merman by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
37 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling |
38 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson |
39 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes |
40 - John Marr and Other Sailors by Herman Melville |
41 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
42 - Sailing To Byzantium by W B Yeats |
43 - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats |
44 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
45 - The Youth of Man by Matthew Arnold |
46 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats |
47 - The Man Who Will Not Know Another by Patrick Branwell Bronte |
48 - Of Any Old Man by Isaac Rosenberg |
49 - Old Man by Edward Thomas |
50 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats |
51 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh |
52 - The Parable of the Old Man & the Young by Wilfred Owen |
53 - Men Who March Away by Thomas Hardy |
54 - For the Men at the Front by John Oxenham |
55 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg |
56 - Marching Men by Marjorie Pickthall |
57 - I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench by Walter S S Lyon |
58 - The Three Lads by Elizabeth Chandler Forman |
59 - A Ballad of the Ranks by Arthur Conan Doyle |
60 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon |
61 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke |
62 - Soldier From the Wars Returning by A E Housman |
63 - I Saw a Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart |
64 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
65 - The Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
66 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant |
67 - Dupont''s Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville |
68 - Dance of the Hanged Men by Arthur Rimbaud |
69 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier |
70 - The Madman's Song by John Webster |
71 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis |
72 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke |
73 - The Father by Katharine Tynan |
74 - Come Up from the Fields Father by Walt Whitman |
75 - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne |
76 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy |
77 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke |
78 - Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman |
79 - The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy |
80 - The Dying Man and the Vulture by Khalil Gibran |
81 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne |