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Poems

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Number of Chapters: 65

Length: 02 hours and 26 minutes

Language: English

These outstanding poems by the renowned author Elizabeth Stoddard speak of the poet's hunger for the freedom of an idyllic future - a hunger enhanced by a contagious idealism characteristic of Stoddard's exceptional poetic dexterity.

These are poems that elevate the listener to levels only dreamed of by the poet herself - to visions of freedom based on the essential and universal craving of a soul burdened, indeed caught within a mundane world of the commonplace.

Abundant in these works is the poet's empathy with the plight of mankind whom she envisions as trapped on a treadmill, vainly attempting to escape the traditional but remaining caught and destined - albeit while on the very threshold of an existence shaped by the reality of the struggle - to re-emerge into a world which is in a profusion of anguishing ways dishearteningly similar to that of before.

Elizabeth Stoddard's relentless pursuit in verse of the happiness that accompanies an idealized life free from social restraints and limitations has produced this collection of some of the finest poetical works of the late nineteenth century.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk

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The Poet's Secret (Bruce Kachuk)
November (Bruce Kachuk)
Music in a Crowd (Bruce Kachuk)
"I Live Within the Stranger's Gate" (Bruce Kachuk)
The House of Youth (Bruce Kachuk)
The House by the Sea (Bruce Kachuk)
Christmas Comes Again (Bruce Kachuk)
March (Bruce Kachuk)
The Spring Afar (Bruce Kachuk)
Why? (Bruce Kachuk)
August (Bruce Kachuk)
October (Bruce Kachuk)
"The Willow Boughs are Yellow Now" (Bruce Kachuk)
"In the Still, Star-Lit Night" (Bruce Kachuk)
Autumn (Bruce Kachuk)
The Autumn Sheaf (Bruce Kachuk)
In the City (Bruce Kachuk)
"I Love You, but a Sense of Pain" (Bruce Kachuk)
Nameless Pain (Bruce Kachuk)
A Baby Song (Bruce Kachuk)
The Wife Speaks (Bruce Kachuk)
The Husband Speaks (Bruce Kachuk)
"One Morn I Left Him in His Bed" (Bruce Kachuk)
Before the Mirror (Bruce Kachuk)
"The Shadows on the Water Reach" (Bruce Kachuk)
A Summer Night (Bruce Kachuk)
"Fan Me with these Lilies Fair" (Bruce Kachuk)
"Oh, the Wild, Wild Days of Youth!" (Bruce Kachuk)
"On my Bed of a Winter Night" (Bruce Kachuk)
"Hallo! My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go?" (Bruce Kachuk)
You Left Me (Bruce Kachuk)
"O Friend, begin a Loftier Song" (Bruce Kachuk)
"Now That the Pain is Gone, I Too Can Smile" (Bruce Kachuk)
The Colonel's Shield (Bruce Kachuk)
A Few Idle Words (Bruce Kachuk)
Vers de Société (Bruce Kachuk)
The Race (Bruce Kachuk)
The Wolf-Tamer (Bruce Kachuk)
The Abbot of Unreason (Bruce Kachuk)
El Manolo (Bruce Kachuk)
Mercedes (Bruce Kachuk)
The Bull-Fight (Bruce Kachuk)
On the Campagna (Bruce Kachuk)
The Queen Deposed (Bruce Kachuk)
A Unit (Bruce Kachuk)
Zanthon - My Friend (Bruce Kachuk)
Achilles in Orcus (Bruce Kachuk)
Above the Tree (Bruce Kachuk)
To an Artist (Bruce Kachuk)
A Landscape (Bruce Kachuk)
From the Headland (Bruce Kachuk)
As One (Bruce Kachuk)
The Visitings of Truth Known Elsewhere (Bruce Kachuk)
We Must Wait (Bruce Kachuk)
Unreturning (Bruce Kachuk)
Closed (Bruce Kachuk)
Memory is Immortal (Bruce Kachuk)
The Tryst (Bruce Kachuk)
No Answer (Bruce Kachuk)
On the Hilltop (Bruce Kachuk)
The Message (Bruce Kachuk)
Exile (Bruce Kachuk)
A Seaside Idyl (Bruce Kachuk)
The Chimney-Swallow's Idyl (Bruce Kachuk)
Last Days (Bruce Kachuk)
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