Village Bells

By William Lisle Bowles · Running time 00:16:58 · Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Village Bells by William Lisle Bowles. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 8, 2026. ------ William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic. He was an amiable, absent-minded, and rather eccentric man. His poems are characterised by refinement of feeling, tenderness, and pensive thought, but are deficient in power and passion. - Summary by Wikipedia

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