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Short Poetry Collection 163

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The Dark Ages

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." - Genesis 4:21 Re-imagined from a few bare lines in Genesis, George Eliot’s epic poem describes man’s loss of innocense, the birth of animal husbandry, of industry, commerce, and art. In a surprise ending, she tells of human transcendence. Each of us has a divine gift to offer the world. (Summary by Josh Mitteldorf)

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Listen next episodes of Short Poetry Collection 163:
An Invitation , Eddi's Service , Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor , Gather the Harvest , If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking , I'm Nobody! Who are you? , In The Droving Days , Jenny Kiss'd Me , Mine and Thine , New Year's Chimes , Now Winter Nights Enlarge , On Love , Out of Sight , Sigh No More (from Much Ado About Nothing) , Song's End , Sonnet 130 (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun) , Sonnet 18 , The Darkling Thrush , The Dying Swan , The End of the Play , The Jolly Dead March , The Jumblies , The Legend of Jubal , The Passing of the Year , The Prairies , The Snow Shower , Two Workers , When You Are Old