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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

Written by: Amy Lowell
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Immerse yourself in a captivating exploration of the intricate dance between beauty and brutality, as suggested by the evocative title "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed." This podcast invites you to delve into a rotating collection of audiobooks that examine the delicate balance of life’s pleasures and perils, weaving themes of love, loss, and the complexities of the human experience. Each episode features a new complete audiobook, offering a rich tapestry of narratives that reflect on the juxtaposition of fragility and strength. From the soft allure of nature's blooms to the sharp edges of conflict and desire, these stories reveal the profound subtleties of existence. This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations that challenge perceptions and provoke thought. Discover a new book with every episode and allow yourself to be transported to realms where the sweet and the sinister coexist in remarkable harmony.Copyright Plays Genre Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
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  • Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans-John Patterson MacLean

    Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans-John Patterson MacLean
    Aug 26 2026
    This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. "Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)
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    3 hrs and 6 mins
  • One Hundred Verses from Old Japan-Teika no Fujiwara

    One Hundred Verses from Old Japan-Teika no Fujiwara
    Aug 25 2026
    This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. "Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)
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    49 mins
  • Poems & Songs-Richard Middleton

    Poems & Songs-Richard Middleton
    Aug 24 2026
    This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. "Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)
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    2 hrs and 25 mins
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