Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
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Episodes
The Singer
Episode 1 · 1:06
The Thought of You
Episode 2 · 53s
The Stars are Colored Blossoms
Episode 3 · 1:03
My Dreams of You are Sombre in the Twilight
Episode 4 · 54s
The Little White Flower
Episode 5 · 52s
The Blackbirds Fly before the Cold
Episode 6 · 48s
Melilot
Episode 7 · 46s
Song
Episode 8 · 46s
As Helen Once
Episode 9 · 47s
Lips You were Not Anhungered for
Episode 10 · 1:01
When We Shall be Dust in the Churchyard
Episode 11 · 1:05
I am So Glad That You are Dead
Episode 12 · 1:03
Survival
Episode 13 · 1:02
Now have I Conquered
Episode 14 · 42s
Dirge
Episode 15 · 47s
April Wind
Episode 16 · 47s
I Remember You because of a Grassy Hill
Episode 17 · 59s
I Shall Not Sing Again of Love
Episode 18 · 51s
I Have had Enough of Glamour
Episode 19 · 48s
A Woman’s Song
Episode 20 · 45s
Choice
Episode 21 · 44s
Harvest
Episode 22 · 44s
Gifts
Episode 23 · 1:03
Imprisoned
Episode 24 · 1:24
You Who Hear Only the Words
Episode 25 · 50s
Release
Episode 26 · 42s
Confidante
Episode 27 · 36s
I. Spring; II. November
Episode 28 · 42s
Amparo
Episode 29 · 33s
The Host
Episode 30 · 42s
Out of My Turbulent Days
Episode 31 · 45s
Yellow Leaves
Episode 32 · 34s
The Yellow Daisies
Episode 33 · 47s
A Song of Happiness
Episode 34 · 54s
Apple Boughs
Episode 35 · 50s
New Birth
Episode 36 · 1:06
Foreword
Episode 37 · 1:17
‘These things I know’
Episode 38 · 1:19
‘I have been happy’
Episode 39 · 1:20
‘I make no question of your right to go’
Episode 40 · 1:24
‘I have a thousand pictures of the sea’
Episode 41 · 1:16
‘Life of itself will be cruel and hard enough’
Episode 42 · 1:25
‘There have been many Junes with larkspur blowing’