Multilingual Short Works Collection 023 - Poetry & Prose

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This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. - Summary by ToddHW 1. Arabic - دع الأيام تفعل ما تشاء [da' el-ayama taf'al ma tasha'o] - 1:52 Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī Key words: fate, happiness, patience Link to Text 2. Danish - Hyrdinden og Skorsteensfeieren - 9:46 Hans Christian Andersen Key words: Fairy tale, love Link to Text 3. French - Sur l'eau - 11:22 Guy de Maupassant Key words: river, boater, sublime, suspense, death Link to Text 4. German - Über die verfeinerten Begriffe - 7:50 Justus Möser Key words: prose, analogy, philosophy, parable, satire, fiction Link to Text 5. Italian - A Satana - 6:48 Giosuè Carducci Key words: Brotherhood, Love, Knowledge, Reason, Science, Progress, Defiance, Rebellion, Anticlericalism Link to Text 6. Italian - Er caffettiere fisolofo - 1:17 Giuseppe Gioachino Belli Key words: Romanesco, Death, Fate, Meaninglessness of Life Link to Text 7. Italian - La Damigella di Scalot - 3:20 Anonymous Key words: Lady of Shalott, Arthurian Cycle, Lancelot of the Lake, Chivalry Code, Courtly Love, Lovesickness, Tragedy, Novellino, Alfred Tennyson Link to Text 8. Italian - S'i' fosse foco - 1:15 Cecco Angiolieri Key words: Against Dolce Stil Novo, Against Authorities (Fire, Air, Water, World, God, Pope, Christians, Emperor, Death, Life, Father, Mother, Elders) Link to Text 9. Latin - Carmen quintum - 1:38 Gaius Valerius Catullus Key words: Life, Death, Mortality, Impermanence, Defiance, Love, Oblivion Link to Text 10. Latin - Liber Primus Carmen undecimum - 1:33 Quintus Horatius Flaccus Key words: Mortality, Fate, Time, Impermanence, Wisdom, Carpe Diem, Epicureanism Link to Text 11. Latin - Stabat Mater - 4:02 Jacopone da Todi Key words: Spiritualism, Franciscanism, Asceticism, Mysticism, Marianism, Suffering Link to Text 12. Luxembourgish - No Süden - 1:02 Michel Lentz Key words: autumn, contentment, longing Link to Text 13. Polish - Paweł i Gaweł - 1:35 Aleksander Fredro (1793-1876) Keywords: bajka, sąsiedzi Link to Text 14. Polish - Sachem - 17:35 Henryk Sienckiewicz Keywords: opowiadanie, walka, rozrywka Link to Text 15. Polish - Testament mój - 2:27 Juliusz Słowacki (1808-1849) Key words: poezja, wiersz, romantyzm, testament Link to Text 16. Polish - Władca Czasu - 22:20 Antoni Lange Key words: czas, odrodzenie, ludzkość (time, rebirth, humanity) Link to Text 17. Polish - Wspomnienie z Maripozy - 20:54 Henryk Sienkiewicz Key words: opowiadanie, Polska, emigracja, język polski Link to Text 18. Serbian - Њени јади [Njeni jadi"> - 1:20 Branko Radičević (1824-1853) Key words: elegy, romanticism, vernacular literature Link to Text 19. Spanish - Curiosidades literarias - 10:26 Rubén Darío Key words: tragedia, romance, poema en prosa Link to Text 20. Spanish - Poema II Trilce - 1:23 César Vallejo Key words: trilce, poesía peruana, vanguardismo Link to Text (2 hr 9 min)