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    Twilight Voices
    Twilight Voices
    Twilight Voices
    Audiobook35 minutes

    Twilight Voices

    Written by William Allingham

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse.
    Here end sixteen poems, written by William Allingham, and selected for re-printing by William Butler Yeats. Printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, Ireland, finished on the fifteenth day of September, in the year 1905. - Summary by David Lawrence

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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