The Pier-Glass

audiobook

The Pier-Glass

by Robert Graves

EN·~41 minutes·29 chapters

Chapters

29 total

THE PIER-GLASS

0:22

NOTE

0:16

THE STAKE

0:36

THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY

0:45

THE PIER-GLASS

2:41

THE FINDING OF LOVE

1:44

REPROACH

0:36

THE MAGICAL PICTURE

2:03

DISTANT SMOKE

2:28

MORNING PHOENIX

0:32

Description

A wandering narrator drifts through a crumbling manor, its corridors echoing with the faint rustle of forgotten curtains and the cold gleam of a cracked pier‑glass. In this shadowed setting, verses mingle with mythic whispers—trolls offering impossible bouquets, ancient trees debating their own nature, and bees buzzing around a hidden hive. The poetry captures the tension between memory and illusion, inviting listeners to taste the bittersweet perfume of longing and the thin line between the seen and the unseen.

The work unfolds as a series of vivid, lyrical sketches, each a portal into a world where love, loss, and the restless spirit of place intertwine. Through haunting images of glass, stone, and fleeting blossoms, the poet explores how we confront the ghosts of our past while searching for a glimpse of hope beyond the darkness. Listeners will be drawn into a dream‑like tapestry that lingers long after the final line fades.

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Language

en

Duration

~41 minutes (39K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2014-12-31

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Robert Graves

Robert Graves

1895–1985

Best known for the novel I, Claudius, he was also a major 20th-century poet whose writing was shaped by wartime experience, classical learning, and a lifelong fascination with myth.

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