Poems
Nora May French
Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Nora May French was a Californian poet and a member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, which flourished after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. She gained minor recognition, but no financial stability, through local magazines. Published posthumously by friends in 1910, four years after French's suicide, Poems by Nora May French was the first and only compilation of her works until 2009.
Although many of her poems celebrate the serenity of coastal landscape, others are less sanguine. They offer glimpses into the mind of a young woman plagued by heartbreak and torn between pressure to submit to social roles and longing to live creatively. The most famous poem in the collection, The Spanish Girl, reflects on a failed engagement, the first of many. - Summary by Mary Kay (1 hr 21 min)
Chapitres
| The Outer Gate | 1:22 | Lu par Jeanie |
| Rain / Best-Loved | 1:51 | Lu par Jeanie |
| The Rose | 1:30 | Lu par Eric Metzler |
| Between Two Rains | 1:10 | Lu par Mary Kay |
| The Message / By the Hospital / Oh, Dryad Thoughs | 2:54 | Lu par Eric Metzler |
| Music in the Pavilion | 1:30 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| Rebuke | 1:30 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| In Camp | 1:05 | Lu par Jennifer Duval |
| The Nymph | 4:12 | Lu par Kristin G. |
| Vivisection / The Stranger | 1:51 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| The Constant Ones / Instinct | 1:32 | Lu par Jennifer Duval |
| San Francisco, New Year's, 1907 | 2:43 | Lu par Little Tee |
| The Poppy Field | 1:18 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| You | 1:00 | Lu par Jennifer Duval |
| Just a Dog | 2:06 | Lu par Ian King |
| Mirage / Dusk | 2:45 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| The Spanish Girl, Part I | 7:04 | Lu par Jennifer Duval |
| The Spanish Girl, Part II | 4:45 | Lu par Kristin G. |
| The Spanish Girl, Part III | 5:40 | Lu par Kristin G. |
| The Garden of Dolores | 1:05 | Lu par KHand |
| Indifference / After-Knowledge | 2:09 | Lu par Melanie Ward |
| Two Spendthrift Kings / Growth | 1:49 | Lu par James Koss |
| Change / Wistaria | 2:02 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| My Nook | 2:13 | Lu par Shiloh Fuscello |
| When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings / The Little Memories | 2:30 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Pass By / In Empty Courts | 2:07 | Lu par Ian King |
| Down the Trail | 1:18 | Lu par Kristin G. |
| Bells from Over the Hills Sound Sweet | 2:15 | Lu par Lanie Butler |
| In Town / Moods | 1:37 | Lu par KHand |
| A Misty Morning / Two Songs | 2:44 | Lu par Jesse Liwag |
| Noon / Your Beautiful Passing | 1:28 | Lu par Alton Kane |
| By Moonlight / One Day | 2:00 | Lu par DomBombadil |
| The Mission Graves / Along the Track | 2:05 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| A Place of Dreams / Think Not, O Lilias | 1:44 | Lu par Ashley |
| To Rosy Buds | 1:16 | Lu par Ashley |
| Yesterday | 1:28 | Lu par Jordan Heron |
| The Mourner / Ava Atque Vale | 2:03 | Lu par KHand |