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    Poems to Make You Cry
    Poems to Make You Cry
    Poems to Make You Cry
    Audiobook1 hour

    Poems to Make You Cry

    Written by Emily Dickenson, William Shakespeare and Christina Georgina Rossetti

    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Alex Jennings and Laurel Lefkow

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    Tears. Sometimes our greatest comfort. Often our darkest fear that we are about to be overwhelmed by sudden and uncontrollable feelings.

    From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes. There is something primordial in their arrival. We may be the only animal to actually cry and scientists in their wish to explain everything cite the simultaneous release of endorphins to help relieve the emotional stress, the physical pain, as vital to restore the sense of calm and well-being. But not everything can be explained and pigeon-holed with certainty.

    Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost.

    From Owen and Dickenson to Wheatly and Hopkins our surrender to tears may not be far away.

    1 - Poems to Make You Cry - An Introduction

    2 - Because I Liked You by A E Housman

    3 - Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

    4 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy

    5 - So We'll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron

    6 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats

    7 - Sonnet 90 - Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now by William Shakespeare

    8 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale

    9 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis

    10 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones

    11 - Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris

    12 - The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele

    13 - How Sweet I Roam'd From Field to Field by William Blake

    14 - When I Have Fears by John Keats

    15 - The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold

    16 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

    17 - I Am by John Clare

    18 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    19 - Ode XIV - To Solitude by Joseph Warton

    20 - Solitude by Harold Munro

    21 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker

    22 - A Thought For a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    23 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

    24 - Piano by D H Lawrence

    25 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken

    26 - Sonnet 66. Tired With All These, For Restful Death by William Shakespeare

    27 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar

    28 - No Worse There is None. Pitched Past, Pitch of Grief by Gerard Manley Hopkins

    29 - Ardelia To Melancholy by Anne Kingsmill-Finch

    30 - Melancholia by Robert Seymour Bridges

    31 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

    32 - The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood

    33 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay

    34 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier

    35 - The Lynching by Claude McKay

    36 - Poems on the Slave Trade. Sonnet VI by Robert Southey

    37 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton

    38 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper

    39 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    40 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon

    41 - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

    42 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney

    43 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

    44 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger

    45 - Fallen by Alice Corbin

    46 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas

    47 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wildred Owen

    48 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling

    49 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa

    50 - Bereavement In Their Death To Feel by Emily Dickinson

    51 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte

    52 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 5, 2021
    ISBN9781839679476

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