Poets & Their Trades - Journalists (Audiobook)

Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Eric Meyers(Unabridged: 02:07mins)

Featuring stories by Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, William Cullen Bryant, Oscar WIlde, Stephen Crane, William Ernest Henley, Willa Cather, Damon Runyon, Tom Kettle, Eugene Field, Charles Mackay, John Oxenham, Owen Seamen, Joyce Kilmer & 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.  

1 - Poets & Their Trades - Journalists - An Introduction

2 - From Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

3 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

4 - A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman

5 - Warble of Lilac Time by Walt Whitman

6 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman

7 - The Ballad of East & West by Rudyard Kipling

8 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling

9 - Tommy by Rudyard Kipling

10 - If by Rudyard Kipling

11 - The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant

12 - The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant

13 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant

14 - Impression du Matin by Oscar Wilde

15 - On the Sale by Auction of Keats's Love Letters by Oscar Wilde

16 - Serenade by Oscar WIlde

17 - Wisdom by Oscar Wilde

18 - Truth by Stephen Crane

19 - Yes, I Have A Thousand Tongues by Stephen Crane

20 - A Newspaper is a Collection of Half Injustices by Stephen Crane

21 - On the Desert by Stephen Crane

22 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley

23 - London Types - Bar Maid by William Ernest Henley

24 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley

25 - Thou Art the Pearl by Willa Cather

26 - The Swedish Mother (Nebraska) by Willa Cather

27 - The Palatine by Willa Cather

28 - Pal, Algeria 1910 by Damon Runyon

29 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon

30 - Requiem by Damon Runyon

31 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle

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

33 - McLean's Welcome by James Hogg

34 - A Witches Chant (An Extract) by James Hogg

35 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field

36 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field

37 - Be My Sweetheart by Eugene Field

38 - The Sycamore Tree by Charles Mackay

39 - In an East End Hovel by Francis William Lauderdale Adams

40 - London by Francis William Lauderdale Adams

41 - St Patricks Day by Jean Blewett

42 - For The Men At the Front by John Oxenham

43 - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by John Oxenham

44 - War Girls by Jessie Pope

45 - Lights Out by Jessie Pope

46 - The Rainbow by Leslie Coulson

47 - Who Made the Law by Leslie Coulson

48 - The Avengers by Owen Seamen

49 - Pro Patria by Owen Seamen

50 - Image by Edward Storer

51 - Rouge Bouquet by Joyce Kilmer

52 - Matin by Joyce Kilmer

53 - If Every by E V Lucas

54 - The Old Stumper Recites a Piece of His Own Composing by J S Fletcher

55 - Cricket by J S Fletcher

56 - from Arthur's Passing by Thomas Gwynn Jones

57 - Hades by Robert C O Benjamon

58 - St Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett

59 - Molly Pitcher by Kate Brownlee Sherwood

60 - Tis Summer Still Yet Now and Then a Leaf by Charles Sangster

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