Songs of Love and Life
Zora Cross
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author's native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition quickly sold out, and an expanded edition was produced a month later. Its erotic content, a rejection of old Victorian values, along with anti-war and feminist themes, catapulted the then 27-year-old Cross to the forefront of Australian poets. She was lauded and praised, but slowly fell into disfavor. Here we present the expanded version of her book, with the addition of four poems dropped from the privately-printed edition, which appear at the end of the recording. - Summary by cavaet
Proof-listeners: AudreyL1, zavaa01, cavaet (2 hr 41 min)
Chapters
| Sonnet I | 1:00 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet II | 1:05 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet III | 1:12 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet IV | 1:02 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet V | 1:08 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet VI | 1:02 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet VII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet VIII | 1:02 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet IX | 0:57 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet X | 1:04 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XI | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XIII | 1:08 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XIV | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XV | 1:14 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XVI | 1:03 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XVII | 1:04 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XVIII | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XIX | 1:03 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XX | 1:04 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXI | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXIII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXIV | 1:02 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXV | 1:00 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXVI | 1:09 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXVII | 1:07 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXVIII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXIX | 1:05 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXX | 1:05 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXXI | 1:00 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXXII | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXXIII | 1:03 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXXIV | 1:02 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXXV | 1:05 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXXVI | 1:13 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXXVII | 1:10 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XXXVIII | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XXXIX | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XL | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLI | 1:13 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XLII | 0:57 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLIII | 1:08 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XLIV | 0:57 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLV | 0:58 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLVI | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLVII | 1:02 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet XLVIII | 1:16 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet XLIX | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet L | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LI | 1:02 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LII | 0:57 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LIII | 1:08 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet LIV | 1:00 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LV | 1:11 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet LVI | 1:01 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet LVII | 1:03 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LVIII | 0:56 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet LIX | 1:13 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnet LX | 1:01 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Vision Of Jehovah | 8:38 | Read by Cavaet |
| The New Moon | 1:01 | Read by Cavaet |
| The Poppy | 1:09 | Read by EliseDee |
| Books | 1:31 | Read by EliseDee |
| When I Was Six | 1:35 | Read by EliseDee |
| My Muse | 1:14 | Read by EliseDee |
| Seascape | 0:59 | Read by Cavaet |
| The Perfect Rhyme | 0:55 | Read by Cavaet |
| Memory | 1:26 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Fairies' Fair | 1:52 | Read by EliseDee |
| Pain | 4:33 | Read by Cavaet |
| April-Laughter | 1:40 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Poets Garden | 1:12 | Read by Cavaet |
| The Rainbow | 1:27 | Read by EliseDee |
| Fortune | 1:24 | Read by Cavaet |
| Holiday Humour | 1:03 | Read by Cavaet |
| To A Favourite Poet | 1:16 | Read by Cavaet |
| In A Garden | 1:52 | Read by EliseDee |
| Girl Gladness | 1:16 | Read by EliseDee |
| If I Were A Poet | 0:43 | Read by EliseDee |
| Grief | 1:40 | Read by Cavaet |
| Thou Shall Not | 0:45 | Read by Cavaet |
| The Open Air | 3:04 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Birthday Of The Dead | 1:02 | Read by Cavaet |
| Only Sir Galahad | 3:19 | Read by Cavaet |
| The Triumph Of Eve | 7:41 | Read by EliseDee |
| Outside The Gate | 1:35 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South I | 1:11 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South II | 1:07 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South III | 1:08 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South IV | 1:14 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South V | 1:13 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnets Of The South VI | 1:13 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Ragnarok Of Regeneration | 9:17 | Read by Cavaet |
| Wedded | 1:51 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Bridal Ode | 2:02 | Read by EliseDee |
| Night-Ride | 1:37 | Read by Cavaet |
| No Woman's Land | 1:00 | Read by EliseDee |
| Spring | 2:03 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Babies's Bay | 1:42 | Read by EliseDee |
| Gods At Gallipoli | 5:34 | Read by Cavaet |
| Sonnet X (Exp.Version) | 1:05 | Read by EliseDee |
| Sonnett XIV(Exp. Version) | 1:07 | Read by EliseDee |
| The Sisters of Sorrow | 2:56 | Read by Cavaet |
| Poor Fools! | 5:25 | Read by Cavaet |