Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Winter cover art

Winter

By: Thomas Hardy,William Blake,Christina Rossetti,William Shakespeare,Kahil Gibran,Daniel Sheehan,Emily Brontë
Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe,Gideon Wagner
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £3.99

Buy Now for £3.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Goblin Market cover art
The Poetry of Hell cover art
Summer - A Season in Verse cover art
The Song Of Hiawatha cover art
The Poetry of Edward Thomas cover art
The Poetry Hour, Volume 1 cover art
The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti cover art
A Spring Harvest (Original with Annotations) cover art
Endymion cover art
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Poems cover art
And the Prophet Said cover art
Invictus cover art
Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering cover art
The Poems of Wilfred Owen cover art
The Poetry of Tennyson cover art
Kahlil Gibran Classics Collection with a Historical Introduction: The Prophet, The Madman, and The Forerunner cover art

Summary

At this time of the year, as the nights close in and the temperature drops, winter seems like a season that nobody really enjoys, and we look forward all the more to spring. For many children, however, it is the bounty of Christmas that steals their attention, and for others the renewal of the New Year. But for Nature it is a pause for breath, to take stock of what has gone by in the year to date and ready herself for the energies and dramatic development to the landscape that spring will bring.

But winter has its beauty too; the frost or snow covered ground, the grey swell of a winter sea and the bleak yet beautiful imagery of the landscape.

Our collection of poems brings together the talents of many best beloved poets, such as Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Daniel Sheehan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Emily Bronte.

©2009 Portable Poetry (P)2009 Portable Poetry

What listeners say about Winter

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars

Monotonous reading

I did not finish listening to this book. The voice of the male reader is so tedious I couldn’t listen beyond the first few poems. The same tone and emphasis for every poem.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

Great poetry spoilt by disappointing narration

Ghizela R. does a reasonable job of giving meaning to these beautiful words, but Gideon W. sucks all the life out of them and makes them seem dull and flat.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful