Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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This is a volume of poetry by American poet and feminist social reformer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Many of the poems in this volume reflect the ideas Phelps advocated during her life, and are meant to encourage the reader to entertain them. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 56 min)
Chapters
| Proem | 0:47 | Read by Sonia |
| Afterward | 1:43 | Read by Sonia |
| Released | 0:53 | Read by Sonia |
| The Room's Width | 0:52 | Read by Sonia |
| The First Christmas Apart | 2:17 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| The Angel Joy | 2:17 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Absent! | 2:58 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| The Unseen Comrades | 2:10 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Stronger than Death | 7:04 | Read by Sonia |
| Vittoria | 3:00 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| New Neighbors | 2:18 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| By the Hearth | 1:39 | Read by Sonia |
| Told in Confidence | 0:51 | Read by Sonia |
| What the Violins Said | 1:54 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Won | 1:11 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Spent | 1:31 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Parted | 1:05 | Read by Sonia |
| An April Gust | 1:02 | Read by Sonia |
| The Answer | 2:23 | Read by Mayah |
| Thorns | 0:52 | Read by Sonia |
| The Indian Girl | 1:24 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Sealed | 0:51 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Guinevere | 5:09 | Read by Lilian Elizabeth |
| Sung to a Friend | 1:29 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Incompletion | 1:00 | Read by Sonia |
| Rafe's Chasm | 1:44 | Read by Sonia |
| Galatea | 3:50 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Part of the Price | 2:03 | Read by Sonia |
| Eurydice | 2:10 | Read by Sonia |
| Elaine and Elaine | 1:32 | Read by Sonia |
| The Poet and the Poem | 5:08 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Overtasked | 1:07 | Read by Sonia |
| Stranded | 1:41 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Gloucester Harbor | 1:58 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Terrible Test | 1:54 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| My Dreams are of the Sea | 1:12 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Song | 0:53 | Read by Sonia |
| An Interpretation | 1:11 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| The Sphinx | 1:33 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Victuræ Salutamus | 1:34 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| The Ermine | 1:40 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| Unquenched | 1:42 | Read by Sonia |
| The King's Image | 1:29 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| At the Party | 3:48 | Read by Mayah |
| A Jewish Legend | 2:58 | Read by Mayah |
| The Songs of Seventy Years | 2:09 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Birthday Verses | 2:46 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| A Tribute | 2:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| To O.W.H. | 0:58 | Read by Mayah |
| Whose shall the Welcome be? | 1:21 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| Exeat | 0:36 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| George Eliot | 1:36 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| Her Jury | 1:25 | Read by Amy Gramour |
| A Prayer. (Matins.) | 2:57 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| An Acknowledgment | 0:53 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Hymn | 2:04 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Answered | 0:29 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Westward | 0:34 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Three Friends | 1:20 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| A New Friend | 0:51 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| An Etching | 0:43 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| To my Father | 0:55 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| The Gates Between | 1:27 | Read by larryhayes7 |
| A Prayer. (Vespers.) | 1:19 | Read by Larry Wilson |