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Songs of Travel and Other Verses

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from the Highlands of Scotland to the Islands of the Pacific.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (1 hr 15 min)

Chapters

Preface

1:35

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Vagabond

2:05

Read by Alan Mapstone

Youth and Love

0:55

Read by Stunning

Youth and Love

0:55

Read by Stunning

In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand

0:48

Read by Rafief

She rested by the Broken Brook

0:43

Read by Rafief

The infinite shining heavens

0:56

Read by Alan Mapstone

Plain as the glistering planets shine

1:15

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi

To you, let snow and roses

0:57

Read by Sonia

Let beauty awake

0:58

Read by Alan Mapstone

I know not how it is with you

0:54

Read by mleigh

I will make you brooches

1:04

Read by Stunning

We have loved of Yore

1:37

Read by Sonia

Mater Triumphans

1:52

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Bright is the ring of words

1:05

Read by Alan Mapstone

In the highlands

1:23

Read by Sonia

Home no more home for me

2:26

Read by Alan Mapstone

Winter

1:01

Read by Marie Christian

The stormy evening closes now

1:36

Read by Stefan Von Blon

To Dr. Hake

1:37

Read by Marie Christian

To ---

2:19

Read by Sonia

The morning drum call

0:49

Read by Alan Mapstone

I have trod the upward and the downward slope

0:45

Read by Alan Mapstone

He hears with gladdened heart

0:40

Read by Stunning

Farewell, fair day and fading light

1:13

Read by Sonia

If this were Faith

2:04

Read by Sonia

My Wife

1:04

Read by Alan Mapstone

To the Muse

1:05

Read by Stunning

To an Island Princess

2:49

Read by Alan Mapstone

To Kalakaua

1:09

Read by Larry Wilson

To Princess Kaiulani

1:24

Read by Larry Wilson

To Mother Maryanne

0:55

Read by Algy Pug

In Memoriam E. H.

1:08

Read by Inkell

To my Wife

1:55

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

To my Old Familiars

2:08

Read by Inkell

The tropics vanish

2:13

Read by Algy Pug

To S. C.

3:05

Read by Algy Pug

The House of Tembinoka

8:21

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Woodman

7:49

Read by Algy Pug

Tropic Rain

1:30

Read by Inkell

An End of Travel

0:50

Read by Algy Pug

We uncommiserate pass into the night

1:12

Read by Algy Pug

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone

1:30

Read by Algy Pug

To S. R. Crockett

1:12

Read by Algy Pug

Evensong

0:53

Read by Nancy Müller