Poems to Enjoy Book 4
Verner Bickley, editor
Poems to Enjoy Book 4 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists & readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional career in different countries as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA(London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA, has played major theatrical roles, acted in films starring Jackie Chan, Leon Lai and Jet Li, regularly appeared in radio and TV series, done BBC continuity and documentary voice-overs. He has traveled frequently to judge public-speaking competitions and for many years regularly adjudicated verse- and prose-speaking and reading, drama and choral speaking. He is Chairman Emeritus of the English-Speaking Union (HK). Dr Gillian Bickley, PhD (Leeds), M.Litt, BA (Hons), CertEd (Brist), FRSA, has had a career mainly as an academic, with university positions in different countries, teaching Literature in English. She is a published poet and writer, regularly sharing her work with the public, and has considerable experience in adjudicating and examining oral performance. Together, Gillian and Verner are Co-Founders of the annual International Proverse Prizes for unpublished writing submitted in English. The wide-ranging poems to enjoy, chosen by Verner Bickley, are by many different, varied writers, some world-famous. Older students and adults can thoroughly enjoy Poems to Enjoy Book 4, finding long-familiar and also new poems. Younger and older can enjoy sharing these poems together, in ways suggested by their grouping as Poems to Speak, Pictures in Poetry and The Poet as Storyteller. Also useful for school or homeschooling particularly when paired with Ebook or paperback editions of Poems to Enjoy Book 4.
Duration - 4h 24m.
Author - Verner Bickley, editor.
Narrator - Verner Bickley.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2014 Verner Bickley ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
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Description:
Poems to Enjoy Book 4 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists & readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. In tandem with his professional career in different countries as educationist and cultural diplomat, Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, PhD, MA(London), BA(Hons), DipEd (Cardiff), LRAM, LGSM, FIL, FRSA, has played major theatrical roles, acted in films starring Jackie Chan, Leon Lai and Jet Li, regularly appeared in radio and TV series, done BBC continuity and documentary voice-overs. He has traveled frequently to judge public-speaking competitions and for many years regularly adjudicated verse- and prose-speaking and reading, drama and choral speaking. He is Chairman Emeritus of the English-Speaking Union (HK). Dr Gillian Bickley, PhD (Leeds), M.Litt, BA (Hons), CertEd (Brist), FRSA, has had a career mainly as an academic, with university positions in different countries, teaching Literature in English. She is a published poet and writer, regularly sharing her work with the public, and has considerable experience in adjudicating and examining oral performance. Together, Gillian and Verner are Co-Founders of the annual International Proverse Prizes for unpublished writing submitted in English. The wide-ranging poems to enjoy, chosen by Verner Bickley, are by many different, varied writers, some world-famous. Older students and adults can thoroughly enjoy Poems to Enjoy Book 4, finding long-familiar and also new poems. Younger and older can enjoy sharing these poems together, in ways suggested by their grouping as Poems to Speak, Pictures in Poetry and The Poet as Storyteller. Also useful for school or homeschooling particularly when paired with Ebook or paperback editions of Poems to Enjoy Book 4. Duration - 4h 24m. Author - Verner Bickley, editor. Narrator - Verner Bickley. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2014 Verner Bickley ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:17
Overview of the Poems to Enjoy series
Duration:00:02:44
To the Listener
Duration:00:02:41
To all Parents and Adults
Duration:00:01:40
To all Teachers
Duration:00:11:07
PART 1: POEMS TO SPEAK notice
Duration:00:00:07
1. The wraggle taggle gypsies
Duration:00:02:20
2. There was a frog
Duration:00:02:34
3. The Milton Abbas Rhyme
Duration:00:00:38
4. The train
Duration:00:00:55
5. A Dutch picture
Duration:00:02:45
6. A long time ago
Duration:00:01:31
7. Foreboding
Duration:00:02:04
8. Elephant song
Duration:00:01:26
9. Song of the fox
Duration:00:02:26
10. The hunt is up
Duration:00:00:46
11. A carrion crow
Duration:00:01:34
12. The maker of cradles
Duration:00:01:52
13. Bound to California
Duration:00:00:28
14. A wanderer's song
Duration:00:01:28
15. Merry are the bells
Duration:00:00:54
16. A fox jumped up
Duration:00:01:34
17. Piper play!
Duration:00:02:14
18. The crocodile
Duration:00:03:10
19. Sic vita (by William Strode)
Duration:00:00:53
20. Sic vita (by William Browne)
Duration:00:00:49
21. When beggars ride
Duration:00:01:32
22. The frog and the crow
Duration:00:01:51
23. Casey Jones
Duration:00:02:40
24. A naughty boy
Duration:00:00:54
25. Ye spotted snakes
Duration:00:01:24
26. One-eyed Riley
Duration:00:02:32
27. Battle song
Duration:00:01:59
28. The shepherd boy and the wolf
Duration:00:00:37
29. The gentleman on the gate
Duration:00:01:11
PART TWO: PICTURES IN POETRY notice
Duration:00:00:08
30. The ride-by-nights
Duration:00:01:09
31. Night song in the jungle
Duration:00:00:31
32. from The gardener
Duration:00:00:57
33. Lo-Yang
Duration:00:00:42
34. Three young rats
Duration:00:00:31
35. Amphibian
Duration:00:01:10
36. If (anonymous)
Duration:00:01:18
37. from Evening
Duration:00:00:23
38. The common cormorant
Duration:00:00:32
39. The snail
Duration:00:01:21
40. Snake
Duration:00:01:13
41. The shell
Duration:00:01:35
42. The poultries
Duration:00:00:29
43. The wind in the grass
Duration:00:00:21
44. Vigil
Duration:00:01:13
45. A piper
Duration:00:00:46
46. The island
Duration:00:01:34
47. The housekeeper
Duration:00:01:08
48. Romance
Duration:00:01:30
49. The lion's skeleton
Duration:00:01:14
50. The bridge
Duration:00:02:49
51. The old stone house
Duration:00:00:48
52. I like to see
Duration:00:00:51
53. The cane-bottomed chair
Duration:00:02:36
54. In the jungle
Duration:00:01:55
55. The Malay kris
Duration:00:00:48
56. Parachute
Duration:00:01:16
57. India
Duration:00:01:29
58. Cargoes
Duration:00:00:54
59. Deserted
Duration:00:00:54
60. With ships the sea was sprinkled
Duration:00:01:07
PART THREE: THE POET AS STORY TELLER notice
Duration:00:00:07
61. The hangman's tree
Duration:00:02:20
62. The slave's dream
Duration:00:02:32
63. The towkay
Duration:00:00:41
64. Ballad from the novel Arthur Conningsby
Duration:00:01:18
65. An incident of the French camp
Duration:00:02:22
66. The glove and the lion
Duration:00:02:17
67. The knight's leap
Duration:00:01:52
68. Paul Rivere's ride
Duration:00:07:00
69. Annabel Lee
Duration:00:02:21
70. The emperor and the bird's nest
Duration:00:02:44
71. When the plane dived
Duration:00:01:06
72. The kite
Duration:00:02:29
73. The sailor's consolation
Duration:00:01:38
74. The beggar maid
Duration:00:00:57
75. The three fishers
Duration:00:01:31
76. The goose
Duration:00:03:09
77. The old navy
Duration:00:02:12
78. Pelters of pyramids
Duration:00:02:25
79. The destined hour
Duration:00:02:48
80. The vision of Belshazzar
Duration:00:02:12
81. The colubriad
Duration:00:02:42
82. Night with a wolf
Duration:00:01:36
83. Elegy on the death of a mad dog
Duration:00:01:44
84. The rebel soldier
Duration:00:01:19
85. Shameful death
Duration:00:02:34
86. from 'Horatius'
Duration:00:10:21
87. The marriage ring
Duration:00:00:27
88. Abou Ben Adhem
Duration:00:01:25
89. The charge of the Light Brigade
Duration:00:02:06
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:30