Poets & Their Trades - Diplomats (Audiobook)

Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Michael Lyons(Unabridged: 01:20mins)

Featuring stories by Sir Thomas Wyatt, James Russell Lowell, James Weldon Johnson, James Bayard Taylor, Matthew Prior, Sir Robert Ayton, Joel Barlow, Henry van Dyke, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Arthur Sherburne Hardy & 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 whose skills are based on using words to achieve the ambitions, policies, desires and sleights of hand of their Governments and institutions. This calculated logic and scheming enhances both diplomacy and their poetry.

1 - Poets & Their Trades - Diplomats - An Introduction

2 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt

3 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt

4 - How by a Kiss He Found by Both His Life and Death by Sir Thomas Wyatt

5 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself with Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt

6 - What Needeth These Threat'ning Words by Sir Thomas Wyatt

7 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell

8 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell

9 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell

10 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell

11 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell

12 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson

13 - The Temptress by James Weldon Johnson

14 - Prayer At Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson

15 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson

16 - Gettysburg Ode by James Bayard Taylor

17 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor

18 - The Return of the Goddess by James Bayard Taylor

19 - Daughter of Egypt by James Bayard Taylor

20 - Angelo Orders His Dinner by Bayard Taylor

21 - A Song - If Wine and Music Hath the Power by Matthew Prior

22 - Since We Your Husband Daily See by Matthew Prior

23 - Phyllis's Age by Matthew Prior

24 - To His Forsaken Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton

25 - To an Inconstant Mistress by Sir Robert Ayton

26 - Tears Flow No More by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury

27 - Love's End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury

28 - Sonnet of Black Beauty by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury

29 - Psalm 137 - The Babylonian Captivity by Joel Barlow

30 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January the 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow

31 - Slavery by John Bowring

32 - Thy Will Be Done by John Bowring

33 - Master of Music by Henry van Dyke

34 - Indian Summer by Henry van Dyke

35 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry van Dyke

36 - I Am Standing Upon The Sea Shore by Henry van Dyke

37 - My April Lady by Henry van Dyke

38 - The Vampiress by Lord Lytton

39 - Of Beauty by Sir Richard Fanshawe

40 - A Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe

41 - Spring - (from Guarini) by Sir Richard Fanshawe

42 - On a Lady That Vowed Not to Curl Her Hair Till Her Brother Returned from Beyond Sea by Sir Richard Fanshawe

43 - Hope by Sir Richard Fanshawe

44 - My Friend by Arthur Sherburne Hardy

45 - Duality by Arthur Sherburne Hardy