White Ash Flies presents the Phaeton episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1536-1606), read by Colin Mahoney.

Phaeton's Ride from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Arthur Golding trans.

White Ash Flies presents Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, read by Colin Mahoney.

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

On this Valentine's Day, White Ash Flies presents Cyclops in Love: Idyll XI of Theocritus (c. 270 BC), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)and read by Colin Mahoney.

Cyclops In Love - Idyll XI of Theocritus

White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Psalm 17, translated by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), read by Colin Mahoney.

Zander's Sunday Sauce - Psalm 17

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: The House of the Stare and Will You Join My Carpool?, written and read by Colin Mahoney.

4 min, 40 sec, The House of the Stare
8 min, 15 sec, Will You Join My Carpool?

Zander's Appendix - The House of the Stare - Will You Join My Carpool?

White Ash Flies presents The Sorrows of Niobe: From Book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, published in 8 CE, in which the goddess Latona makes Niobe pay dearly for her presumption, just as in the preceding story, Arachne was punished by Minerva for her presumption: surpassing the goddess in a weaving competition. The translation into English from Latin is Arthur Golding’s, published in 1567. Read by Colin Mahoney.

The Sorrows of Niobe

White Ash Flies presents The Elixir of Life, a short story by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), translated by Clara Bell (1834-1927), and read by Colin Mahoney.

The Elixir of Life

White Ash Flies opens its fourth season with another installment of Zander’s Appendix, an occasional series of original work, featuring three short poems written and read by Colin Mahoney.

4 min, 7 sec - Monday with Dad
6 min, 55 sec - Ecce Homo
8 min, 25 sec - The Agency to End Agency

Monday with Dad - Ecce Homo - The Agency to End Agency

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander’s Appendix to follow up on our previous episode: Another set of three shorter poems, written and read by Colin Mahoney:

4 min 25 sec - He Named His Boat Clover
5 min, 12 sec - The Strange Death of the Count de Foix
7 min, 27 sec - A Letter From Here

He Named His Boat Clover - The Strange Death of the Count de Foix

Tonight, Zander’s Sunday Sauce serves up Psalms 22 and 34 from the Revised Standard Version of the Old Testament, read by Colin Mahoney.

Zander's Sunday Sauce - Psalm 22 - Psalm 34

White Ash Flies closes out this St. Patrick's Day with The Dead, a short story by James Joyce (1882-1941), from his collection, Dubliners. Read by Colin Mahoney.

The Dead

This morning, on White Ash Flies: Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs, featuring 3 Poems Containing Birds, written and read by Colin Mahoney.

45 sec, The Agency to End Agency
2 min, Momotus Momota
3 min, 30 sec, A Letter From Here

Zander's Appendix - 3 Poems Containing Birds

White Ash Flies presents two poems by William Butler Yeats from his 1919 collection, The Wild Swans at Coole: The Collar-bone of a Hare and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, read by Colin Mahoney.

The Collar-bone of a Hare - An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Tonight White Ash Flies presents, Caliban Upon Setebos by Robert Browning (1864), read by Colin Mahoney.

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