At Ease on Lethe Wharf

by Helen Coale CREW (1866 - 1941)

At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Read by LB

At Ease on Lethe Wharf

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013.Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes from the Chicago Anthology, published in 1916. Lethe refers to the first river that souls bound for the Elysian Fields, the Heaven of the ancient Greeks, had to cross. Drinking from the river was said to have the effect of expunging all memories.


Listen next episodes of At Ease on Lethe Wharf:
At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Read by MML , At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Read by RN , At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Read by TS