Poems

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Poems

by Elizabeth Bibesco

EN·~31 minutes·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

POEMS

0:51

1:19

5:38

0:20

0:45

0:20

0:21

1:25

2:29

1:23
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Description

This collection of poems moves through love, longing, loss, and the uneasy spaces between desire and despair. Its speakers address beloveds, winter landscapes, flowers, fire, darkness, and the shifting sensations of sight and sound, transforming intimate feeling into vivid symbolic worlds.

The poems are often formally crafted, with sonnets, rhymed lyrics, and musical refrains giving shape to emotions that resist calm expression. Passion appears as both illumination and danger: a force that can warm, consume, or leave only ash behind. Alongside romantic devotion, the collection explores solitude, memory, spiritual doubt, and the wish to escape the painful demands of hope.

Rich in imagery and emotional contrast, these verses invite listeners to linger over their language and changing moods. They will appeal to those who enjoy poetic meditations on love and mortality, especially when tenderness is joined to irony, intensity, and a distinctly dramatic voice.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~31 minutes (30K characters)

Release date

Sep 21, 2026

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Elizabeth Bibesco

Elizabeth Bibesco

1897–1945

A novelist, poet, and keen observer of high society, she turned an extraordinary life between Britain, Spain, and Romania into elegant, emotionally charged fiction. Her work offers a glimpse into the glamour, politics, and private tensions of the interwar years.

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