Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross audiobook.

Genre: poetry

First published in Australia in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is the collection that made poet and journalist Zora Cross a national sensation. Built largely around a sequence of love sonnets, it speaks in an intimate first-person voice that refuses to treat desire as something shameful or silent. Across these tightly wrought poems, Cross traces the exhilaration and ache of passionate attachment, the pull between private longing and public respectability, and the way love can feel at once bodily, reverent, and defiantly modern. Alongside its charged romantic focus, the collection threads in a broader conscience about the world Cross lived in, questioning inherited Victorian ideals and sounding notes that can be read as feminist and anti-war in spirit. The result is a book that moves between tenderness and provocation, worship and appetite, lyric beauty and blunt honesty, offering a portrait of a woman insisting on the full range of her experience. For listeners, it is both a time capsule of early twentieth-century literary scandal and a vivid, enduring exploration of what it means to claim love in your own language.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 001

(00:01:00) Chapter 002

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(00:04:19) Chapter 005

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(00:10:33) Chapter 011

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(00:13:43) Chapter 014

(00:14:42) Chapter 015

(00:15:56) Chapter 016

(00:16:58) Chapter 017

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(00:19:01) Chapter 019

(00:20:04) Chapter 020

(00:21:08) Chapter 021

(00:22:09) Chapter 022

(00:23:10) Chapter 023

(00:24:11) Chapter 024

(00:25:13) Chapter 025

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(00:27:22) Chapter 027

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(00:29:30) Chapter 029

(00:30:35) Chapter 030

(00:31:40) Chapter 031

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(00:36:48) Chapter 036

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(00:44:24) Chapter 043

(00:45:32) Chapter 044

(00:46:29) Chapter 045

(00:47:27) Chapter 046

(00:48:26) Chapter 047

(00:49:28) Chapter 048

(00:50:44) Chapter 049

(00:51:45) Chapter 050

(00:52:44) Chapter 051

(00:53:46) Chapter 052

(00:54:43) Chapter 053

(00:55:51) Chapter 054

(00:56:51) Chapter 055

(00:58:02) Chapter 056

(00:59:03) Chapter 057

(01:00:06) Chapter 058

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(01:02:15) Chapter 060

(01:03:16) Chapter 061

(01:11:54) Chapter 062

(01:12:55) Chapter 063

(01:14:04) Chapter 064

(01:15:35) Chapter 065

(01:17:10) Chapter 066

(01:18:24) Chapter 067

(01:19:23) Chapter 068

(01:20:18) Chapter 069

(01:21:44) Chapter 070

(01:23:36) Chapter 071

(01:28:09) Chapter 072

(01:29:49) Chapter 073

(01:31:01) Chapter 074

(01:32:28) Chapter 075

(01:33:52) Chapter 076

(01:34:55) Chapter 077

(01:36:11) Chapter 078

(01:38:03) Chapter 079

(01:39:19) Chapter 080

(01:40:02) Chapter 081

(01:41:42) Chapter 082

(01:42:27) Chapter 083

(01:45:31) Chapter 084

(01:46:33) Chapter 085

(01:49:52) Chapter 086

(01:57:33) Chapter 087

(01:59:08) Chapter 088

(02:00:19) Chapter 089

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