Songs Before Sunrise

Songs Before Sunrise

LibriVox · Audiobook · 39 episodes

This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. - Summary by Carolin

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Episodes

Dedication to Joseph Mazzini

Episode 1 · 2:26
Prelude

Episode 2 · 9:38
The Eve of Revolution

Episode 3 · 33:11
A watch in the Night

Episode 4 · 10:19
Super Flumina Babylonis

Episode 5 · 6:51
The halt before Rome

Episode 6 · 14:12
Mentana - First Anniversary

Episode 7 · 4:16
Blessed among Women

Episode 8 · 9:59
The Litany of Nations

Episode 9 · 10:02
Hertha

Episode 10 · 12:22
Before a Crucifix

Episode 11 · 11:47
Tenebrae

Episode 12 · 7:15
Hymn of Man

Episode 13 · 22:12
The Pilgrims

Episode 14 · 5:45
Armand Barbès

Episode 15 · 1:59
Quia Multum Amavit

Episode 16 · 8:19
Genesis

Episode 17 · 5:10
To Walt Whitman in America

Episode 18 · 7:19
Christmas Antiphones

Episode 19 · 8:50
A New Year’s Message

Episode 20 · 2:35
Mater Dolorosa

Episode 21 · 5:00
Mater Triumphalis

Episode 22 · 9:09
A Marching Song

Episode 23 · 9:28
Siena

Episode 24 · 4:12
Cor Cordium

Episode 25 · 1:19
In San Lorenzo

Episode 26 · 1:22
Tiresias

Episode 27 · 19:03
The Song of the Standard

Episode 28 · 4:08
On the Downs

Episode 29 · 7:25
Messidor

Episode 30 · 3:54
Ode on the Insurrection in Candia

Episode 31 · 11:07
Non Dolet

Episode 32 · 1:18
Eurydice

Episode 33 · 1:28
An Appeal

Episode 34 · 3:59
Perinde ac Cadaver

Episode 35 · 5:05
Monotones

Episode 36 · 2:21
The Oblation

Episode 37 · 1:04
A Year’s Burden

Episode 38 · 5:08
Epilogue

Episode 39 · 17:14