Sestinas
Various
Play
Length 4 h 48 min
Chapters 101
The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
Chapters
1
Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni by Dante Alighieri Read by Peter Tucker 2:46
2
Sestina I – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Read by Peter Tucker 2:21
3
Sestina II – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Read by Peter Tucker 2:31
4
Sestina III – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Read by Peter Tucker 2:27
5
Ode II by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:21
6
Ode VIII by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:23
7
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:46
8
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 6:20
9
Sestina I by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:31
10
Sestina II by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:36
11
Sestina III by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:30
12
Sestina IV by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:20
13
Sestina V by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:29
14
Sestina VI by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:28
15
Sestina VII by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:30
16
Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 2:32
17
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Read by Peter Tucker 4:28
18
Petrarch's First Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:35
19
Sestina from Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:44
20
Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 3:36
21
Double Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 5:02
22
A Sestina on a Lover’s Hours by Francesco Petrarch Read by Newgatenovelist 2:57
23
Cuddie’s Sestina by Edmund Spenser Read by Peter Tucker 2:37
24
Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney Read by Peter Tucker and 1 other 4:42
25
Adgelastus’ Sestine by Philip Sidney Read by Peter Tucker 2:27
26
Farewell by Philip Sidney Read by Peter Tucker 2:17
27
Sestin I by William Alexander Read by Newgatenovelist 2:44
28
Sestin II by William Alexander Read by Newgatenovelist 2:36
29
Sestine 1 by Barnabe Barnes Read by Peter Tucker 1:49
30
Sestine 2 by Barnabe Barnes Read by Peter Tucker 2:02
31
Sestine 3 by Barnabe Barnes Read by Peter Tucker 1:52
32
Sestine 4 by Barnabe Barnes Read by Peter Tucker 4:13
33
Sestine 5 by Barnabe Barnes Read by Peter Tucker 6:28
34
A Complaint by Francis Davison Read by Newgatenovelist 4:30
35
Sextain – The Heaven Doth Not Contain So Many Stars by William Drummond Read by Peter Tucker 2:21
36
Sextain – Sith Gone is My Delight and Only Pleasure by William Drummond Read by Peter Tucker 2:26
37
Sestine by Friedrich Rückert Read by Peter Tucker 2:32
38
A Sestina by James Mew Read by Newgatenovelist 3:03
39
Sestina by Edmund Gosse Read by Peter Tucker 2:24
40
Rizzio’s Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Peter Tucker 2:24
41
Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Peter Tucker 2:19
42
The Complaint of Lisa by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Newgatenovelist 11:27
43
Beside the Sea by R. K. Munkittrick Read by Peter Tucker 2:20
44
A Sestina by H. C. Faulkner Read by Newgatenovelist 3:21
45
Cupid and the Shepherd by Clinton Scollard Read by Peter Tucker 2:14
46
The Voices of Spring by Elizabeth Akers Read by Newgatenovelist 3:09
47
Sestina by Florence Byrne Read by Newgatenovelist 2:54
48
An Island Pine by Elisabeth Cavazza Read by Newgatenovelist 3:01
49
Love’s Going by Charles W. Coleman, Junior Read by Peter Tucker 2:23
50
An Explanatory Sestina by Henry Nesgarde Johnson Read by Peter Tucker 2:09
51
The Stars by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Read by Newgatenovelist 2:59
52
Pulvis et Umbra by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Read by Newgatenovelist 3:09
53
Personality by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Read by Newgatenovelist 3:11
54
Dorothy by Annie Eliza Johnson Read by Newgatenovelist 3:12
55
Thelga and Ethred by Harrison Robertson Read by Newgatenovelist 3:07
56
The Birthday by Richard Garnett Read by Newgatenovelist 3:01
57
Fra Filippo Lippi and the Nun by Mary Anna Buck Evans Read by Newgatenovelist 2:46
58
An Incident in the Crusades by Mary Anna Buck Evans Read by Newgatenovelist 2:53
59
Drake, and the Ransom of San Domingo - 1585 by Mary Anna Buck Evans Read by Newgatenovelist 2:38
60
The Things I Love by John Lawrence Smith Read by Newgatenovelist 2:53
61
Sestina by Timothy Barrett Read by Newgatenovelist 2:59
62
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling Read by Peter Tucker 2:09
63
Sestina of the Red Heart and White World by John William Lloyd Read by Newgatenovelist 2:45
64
Sestina by Charles Camp Tarelli Read by Peter Tucker 2:17
65
Sestina – The Higher Scepticism by Charles Camp Tarelli Read by Peter Tucker 2:13
66
Sestina – The Adventurers by Charles Camp Tarelli Read by Peter Tucker 2:14
67
To the Forest by Eugene Lee-Hamilton Read by Newgatenovelist 3:15
68
Homes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Newgatenovelist 2:32
69
The Bawling World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Newgatenovelist 2:43
70
A Dream of Gold by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by Newgatenovelist 2:43
71
Sestina by Annie Lake Townsend Read by Newgatenovelist 2:49
72
In the Autumn Woods by Charles Edward Russell Read by Newgatenovelist 3:06
73
Sestina by Post Wheeler Read by Peter Tucker 1:30
74
Sestina of Youth and Age by Gelett Burgess Read by Peter Tucker 2:19
75
New Hope by Charles F. Johnson Read by Newgatenovelist 2:19
76
Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Read by Newgatenovelist 2:44
77
Rebel-Chimes by Ardeen Foster Read by Newgatenovelist 2:21
78
Sestina by Victor Reese Read by Newgatenovelist 2:39
79
Sestina - A Song in Winter by W. M. James Read by Newgatenovelist 3:00
80
Mid-Summer’s Eve by Stanley Matthews Cleveland Read by Newgatenovelist 3:13
81
Sestina by Margaret Thomas Read by Newgatenovelist 1:50
82
Sestina of the Yellow Rose by H. E. D. Read by Newgatenovelist 2:58
83
Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound Read by Peter Tucker 3:10
84
Sestina for Ysolt by Ezra Pound Read by Peter Tucker 2:20
85
The Immortal World by Nina Salaman Read by Newgatenovelist 3:01
86
Sestina of the Ardent Club Woman by Mary Eleanor Roberts Read by Newgatenovelist 2:08
87
Betwixt the Night and Day by Nels Dickmann Anderson Read by Peter Tucker 2:45
88
Love’s Serenade by Nels Dickmann Anderson Read by Peter Tucker 2:19
89
Sestina of the Shuffling Feet by William Andrew MacKenzie Read by Peter Tucker 2:34
90
Sestina by Leroy Titus Weeks Read by Newgatenovelist 2:26
91
The Sestina of Thoughtful Bill by Edward Benninghaus Kenna Read by Peter Tucker 2:10
92
A Rhymed Sestina by Dorothy Frances Gurney Read by Peter Tucker 2:21
93
The Sestina of the New Englander by Shirley Harvey Read by Peter Tucker 2:09
94
The Conqueror Passes by James Branch Cabell Read by Peter Tucker 2:23
95
The House of Silence by Richard Butler Glaenzer Read by Newgatenovelist 3:05
96
Narcissus by Thomas Grant Springer Read by Peter Tucker 1:59
97
Sestina by Mary Cromwell Low Read by Newgatenovelist 3:02
98
Sestina of a Scamp Royal by John Francis Glynn Read by Peter Tucker 2:14
99
Sestina – The Reawakening of Desire by Dolf Wyllarde Read by Peter Tucker 2:09
100
Sestina to Professor Gildersleeve on His Forthcoming Sonnets by Carol Wight Read by Newgatenovelist 2:51
101
Sestina by Henry Dumont Read by Peter Tucker 2:11
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