Poems
Mary Coleridge
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Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist) (4 hr 1 min)
Chapters
To Memory | 1:14 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Larghetto | 1:03 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Slowly | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Gone | 0:57 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Moment | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'There was no place found' | 1:38 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Morning Dreams | 0:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Come Home! | 0:53 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Other Side of a Mirror | 1:53 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Difference | 0:56 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I have forged me in sevenfold heats | 0:32 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Every man for his own hand' | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
In the Brera | 1:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Regina | 1:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
At First | 0:49 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
An Anniversary | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Over the hills and far away' | 1:21 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Eyes | 0:54 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Gifts | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Master and Guest | 1:45 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Two Songs | 0:41 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Horror | 0:45 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'He came unto his own, and his own received him not' | 2:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
One and All | 0:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Mortal Combat | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
St. Andrew's | 1:12 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Winged Words | 0:41 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
True to myself am I, and false to all | 1:33 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Go! | 0:54 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Not Yet | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Blue and White | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Our Lady | 1:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'He knoweth not that the dead are thine' | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Devil's Funeral | 1:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Armida's Garden | 0:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Confidence | 0:30 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Burial | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Mandragora | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'The merciful knight' | 2:10 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Invocation | 0:54 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Doubt | 1:03 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On the Hearthrug | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
At Dead of Night | 0:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Song | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Witch | 1:36 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Huguenot | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Eleanor | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Self-question | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Day-dream | 3:10 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I ask of thee, love, nothing but relief | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Sun and Storm | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
L'oiseau Bleu | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Jealousy | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Shadow | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Prosperity | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
News | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Awake | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Song | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Fair as a Dream! | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Marriage | 1:10 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
To a Piano | 1:17 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On a Bas-relief of Pelops and Hippodameia | 1:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
In Dispraise of the Moon | 1:08 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Witches' Wood | 1:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Wilderspin | 2:10 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Unwelcome | 1:18 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Lady of Trees | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
February, 1900 | 1:15 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Dumb | 0:41 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
When Mary thro' the Garden Went | 1:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
High Wind | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Whither Away? | 0:57 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Beware! | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The King's Guard | 2:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Renaissance Gentlemen | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The White Women | 2:23 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Lines to a Tree | 2:28 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Other men may never care | 1:18 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Night is fallen within, without | 0:45 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I saw a stable, low and very bare | 0:42 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Death | 3:16 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Tis not Love that is Dead | 0:41 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Bamborough | 0:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I chanced to see, upon a day | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Come back to me my swallow | 1:02 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Thistledown | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Pride | 0:57 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Sun and Wind | 0:59 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Affection | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Goodness | 1:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Wanderers | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Depart from me. I know thee not! | 1:16 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
At a Friends' Meeting | 2:23 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Knowledge | 0:49 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Unity | 0:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Wasted | 0:57 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The fire, the lamp, and I, were alone together | 1:30 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Witness | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Veneta | 0:58 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Train | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Flowers of the Field | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Companionship | 1:22 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On the Arrival of a Visitor | 1:08 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Lo, when the house is empty come the dead | 1:14 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Street Lanterns | 1:08 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Where a Roman Villa Stood, Above Freiburg | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Deep Calleth unto Deep' | 1:20 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Imagination | 1:19 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
September | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
O Earth, my mother! not upon thy breast | 1:20 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Love went a-riding over the earth | 0:42 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Friends - with a Difference | 0:53 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Thee have I sought, divine Humility | 1:31 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Dear builder of the Bridge, with thee I stood | 0:53 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Forgive? O yes! How lightly, lightly said! | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On a day, and on a day | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Whether I live, or whether I die | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Thou that canst sit in silence hour by hour | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
One Day in Every Year | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Dedication | 0:49 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Egypt's might is tumbled down | 1:00 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar | 1:15 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Remember Not Our Iniquities' | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
O Mighty Spirit, whither art thou fled? | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Ah, I have striven, I have striven | 0:57 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Weary was I of toil and strife | 2:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
We were not made for refuge of lies | 1:00 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Sounds | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
To a Bullying Wind that Rose at Sunset | 1:17 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
No Newspapers | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
There with two lives before me did I choose | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
O tell me not that years will give | 0:29 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'They served with Nelson, and with Nelson died' | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
O Darkness gather round | 0:42 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
No longer live! | 0:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Wind | 0:29 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The song of nightingales | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I shall forget you, O my dead | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Two Heavens | 0:45 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Death and the Lady | 1:20 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Contents of an Ink-Bottle | 1:13 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Chillingham | 2:58 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Guy's Cliffe at Night | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
New Year's Eve | 0:38 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On a Soldier Who Died of Illness | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Lilies and Doves (May, 1902) | 0:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On Such a Day | 0:38 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Evening | 2:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Arm thee! Arm thee! Forth upon the road! | 0:49 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Her face, for utter stillness, hath no peer | 1:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Blind | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! | 1:05 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Lord of the winds, I cry to thee | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
To C. E. G. on Her Birthday | 0:33 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Singing of the Children for Theo | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Gibberish | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
In London Town | 1:22 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The sum of loss I have not reckoned yet | 0:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Are the dead as calm as those | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Nicodemus | 1:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Three Aspects | 1:03 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Low-flying swallow, tho' the sky be fair | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Haven | 0:41 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'Cut It Down' | 1:09 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Change | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Hail and Farewell | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Broken Friendship | 0:36 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'In That Sleep of Death What Dreams May Come?' | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Maiden | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
January the First | 1:02 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Gold | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
O let me be in loving nice | 0:45 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Youth's Dying | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Three Helpers in Battle | 0:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Praise | 1:10 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Joy in Joy | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Two | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
As I went singing over the earth | 0:32 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Ingrato Cor | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
After St. Augustine | 0:32 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'At Evening Time It Shall Be Light' | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Fighting would I have you die | 0:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Two differing sorrows made these eyes grow dim | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The King | 0:43 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Second Time | 1:11 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Love, the immortal thing, by Time constrained | 0:34 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Hush | 0:44 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Mother to a Baby | 1:08 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
On a Sudden Departure | 1:18 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Say This | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Tar Ublia Chi Bien Eima | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Sleep | 1:05 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Contradictions | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Astrology | 0:34 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Child's Day | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Wind and Sea | 1:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Mistaken | 1:02 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Marah | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
'My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His' | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Deserted House | 0:55 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
There | 1:09 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Song | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Useless | 0:48 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Christ's Friends | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
All One | 0:47 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Clever Woman | 1:12 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Friends and Foes | 1:01 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Poet and Sculptor | 1:02 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Why is she set so far, so far above me | 0:36 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Alcestis to Admetus | 1:25 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I know not how it is with me - the light | 0:37 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Furness Abbey | 1:12 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Helpless | 1:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
I envy not the dead that rest | 1:06 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
From My Window | 1:18 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
After Reading Certain Books | 0:54 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Finding of Lord Strathmore (1715) | 0:34 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Impromptu | 1:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
In a Volume of Austin Dobson | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Ghosts | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
At the Madeleine | 1:04 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The poet's heart without his gift of song | 0:33 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Solo | 1:00 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Tired of the daily round | 0:33 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
He who has lived in sunshine all day long | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Life and Joy | 0:36 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Now | 0:40 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
That this should be the common grief of all | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Not as I am thou art - and yet thou art | 0:46 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Love, whereof purest light the shadow is | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Only a little shall we speak of thee | 0:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Nel Mezzo Del Cammin | 0:28 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Sadness | 0:31 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Nonsense | 0:36 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Therefore I wrote it, not that men should buy | 0:51 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Words | 2:14 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Some in a child would live, some in a book | 0:50 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
Reviews
beautiful but sad collection of poems





TT Tran
Poems are well written with beautiful imagery but tone of despair. The reader expressed the poems well. Very good reader.





Avid listener
very depressing and read with a voice to match