Poems by Nora May French
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Poems by Nora May French is a arts podcast hosted by Loyal Books. It has 37 episodes, with the latest published January 2022.
Nora May French was a Californian poet and a member of the bohemian literary circles of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club, which flourished after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. She gained minor recognition, but no financial stability, through local magazines. Published posthumously by friends in 1910, four years after French's suicide, Poems by Nora May French was the first and only compilation of her works until 2009.Although many of her poems celebrate the serenity of coastal landscape, others are less sanguine. They offer glimpses into the mind of a young woman plagued by heartbreak and torn between pressure to submit to social roles and longing to live creatively. The most famous poem in the collection, The Spanish Girl, reflects on a failed engagement, the first of many.
arts ·en-us ·37 episodes
The Outer Gate
Rain / Best-Loved
The Rose
Between Two Rains
The Message / By the Hospital / Oh, Dryad Thoughs
Music in the Pavilion
Rebuke
In Camp
The Nymph
Vivisection / The Stranger
The Constant Ones / Instinct
San Francisco, New Year's, 1907
The Poppy Field
You
Just a Dog
Mirage / Dusk
The Spanish Girl, Part I
The Spanish Girl, Part II
The Spanish Girl, Part III
The Garden of Dolores
Indifference / After-Knowledge
Two Spendthrift Kings / Growth
Change / Wistaria
My Nook
When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings / The Little Memories
Pass By / In Empty Courts
Down the Trail
Bells from Over the Hills Sound Sweet
In Town / Moods
A Misty Morning / Two Songs
Noon / Your Beautiful Passing
By Moonlight / One Day
The Mission Graves / Along the Track
A Place of Dreams / Think Not, O Lilias
To Rosy Buds
Yesterday
The Mourner / Ava Atque Vale
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