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by LenXZ1
February 28th, 2018, 12:38 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [Fortnightly Poem] A Bachelor to a Married Flirt by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - dl
Replies: 21
Views: 2620

Re: [Fortnightly Poem] A Bachelor to a Married Flirt by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - dl

Here is my version of this bitter poem. Wilcox does an excellent job of conveying the passionate acrimony of a baffled male cruelly misled by the deceitful wiles of an indifferently false wife.

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/bachelor_wilcox_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 4:07

Len
by LenXZ1
February 28th, 2018, 11:13 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [Weekly Poem ] The Quarrel by Madison Cawein - dl
Replies: 23
Views: 3464

Re: [Weekly Poem ] The Quarrel by Madison Cawein - dl

Hi, David,
Back again. Here is my recording of this week's poem.

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/quarrel_cawein_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:30

Len
by LenXZ1
November 12th, 2017, 8:13 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE[Weekly] A Visit From Young Gloom by R. Lardner -dl
Replies: 24
Views: 3906

Re: [Weekly Poem] A Visit From Young Gloom by Ring Lardner

Here is my version, I've been out of the loop for a long time, but I'm hoping to get started again.

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/younggloom_lardner_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:34

Len
by LenXZ1
August 29th, 2017, 3:30 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [Weekly] A Solar Eclipse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox -dl
Replies: 30
Views: 5792

Re: [Weekly Poem] A Solar Eclipse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox -

Here is my recording of this week's poem: https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/solareclipse_wilcox_llw_128kb.mp3 Duration: 1:20 I did a search to see whether there was a printing error in line 8, because I didn't think that Mrs. Wilcox would deliberately break the sonnet rhyme scheme rule. But appar...
by LenXZ1
August 7th, 2017, 3:48 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [Week] Domestic Bliss by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - dl
Replies: 28
Views: 4799

Re: [Weekly Poem] Domestic Bliss by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - dl

Here is my recording of this pleasant romantic sonnet. https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/domesticbliss_wilcox_llw_128kb.mp3 Duration: 1:22 This is rather refreshing for a poem that celebrates married love, whereas most love poems are concerned with youthful bliss. It almost seems that romance end...
by LenXZ1
July 29th, 2017, 4:24 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: FINIS [Fortnightly] To a Blank Sheet of Paper by O.W. Holmes
Replies: 30
Views: 5692

Re: [Fortnightly] To a Blank Sheet of Paper by O.W. Holmes -

I've been a bit out of the loop lately, so I'm really late on this one, but here is my version:

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/blanksheet_holmes_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:44

Len
by LenXZ1
July 29th, 2017, 3:55 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [Weekly] In A Subway Station by Sara Teasdale - dl
Replies: 26
Views: 4823

Re: [Weekly Poem] In A Subway Station by Sara Teasdale - dl

Here is my very late recording of this week's poem, by one of my favorite poets:

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/inasubway_teasdale_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:29

Len
by LenXZ1
July 16th, 2017, 3:22 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various-ph
Replies: 456
Views: 71237

Re: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various

Here is Section 130, "Abou Ben Adhem," by Leigh Hunt. This was an old standard memory verse for kids back in my distant school days.

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/itcanbedone_130_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:13

Len
by LenXZ1
July 16th, 2017, 2:57 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various-ph
Replies: 456
Views: 71237

Re: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various

Here is Section 111: "What Dark Days Do," by Everard Jack Appleton:

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/itcanbedone_111_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:03

Len
by LenXZ1
July 9th, 2017, 11:29 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various-ph
Replies: 456
Views: 71237

Re: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various

Here is Section 106: "A Good Name," by William Shakespeare. https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/itcanbedone_106_various_128kb.mp3 Duration: 1:41 This is a good example of something that Shakespeare loved to do--he placed statements of some of the highest principles in the mouths of ...
by LenXZ1
July 9th, 2017, 10:45 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various-ph
Replies: 456
Views: 71237

Re: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various

Here is Section 92: "Helpin' Out," by William Judson Kibby. Another favorite.

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/itcanbedone_092_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 3:29

Len
by LenXZ1
July 8th, 2017, 8:09 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various-ph
Replies: 456
Views: 71237

Re: [group] It Can Be Done ! Poems of inspiration by various

Here is Section 88: "To Althea from Prison," by Richard Lovelace. I taught this one many times in English literature classes.

https://librivox.org/uploads/philchenevert/itcanbedone_088_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 3:00

Len