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Here is Section 51, "The Land of Dreams," by William Blake":

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cambridgepoetry_51_grahame_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:17

Len

Here is my second recording, Section 50, "The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess":

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cambridgepoetry_50_grahame_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:20

Len

Here is my first recording for this project: Section 49, "Wynken, Blynken and Nod."

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cambridgepoetry_49_grahame_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:26

Len

Here is my recording of this week's poem:

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/tothemoon_leopardi_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration 1:32

Len

I would like to claim the following poems: 49 - Wynken, Blynken and Nod 50 - The Drummer-Boy and the Shepherdess 51 - The Land of Dreams 52 - Sweet and Low 53 - Cradle Song 54 - Mother and I 63 - Three Things to Remember 64 - The Knight of Bethlehem 65 - The Lamb 77 - The Happy Piper 78 - The Destru...

Here is my version of Browning's famous dramatic monologue. Len I taught this poem many times and loved it every time. We learn the ruthless Duke's character very strikingly from his own words, and indirectly the innocence of his condemned wife, whose only crime was not devoting herself exclusively ...

Here is my version, my first for quite a long time. I hope you'll be pleased that I am still alive, although I just passed my 87th birthday at the beginning of the month.

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/sunshadow_wilcox_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:05

Len

First in the Weekly! First in the Fortnightly! First in the New Year!

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/atthepiano_green_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:52

Len

I skipped a couple times, so I'll jump in first this week for this little people festival:

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/fairyglee_field_llw_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:05

Len

Here is Section 163, "Domestic Asides." It's a good thing that unwelcome visitor Mrs. Skinner can hear only the words, and not the thoughts, of her hostess.

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_163_hood_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:03

Len

Here is Section 131, "Sally Simpkin's Lament." Poor Sally has lost half of her sailor man.

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_131_hood_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:29

Len

Here is Section 121, "I'm Not a Single Man." When writing a passage in a young woman's album, the married poet must carefully avoid any hint of flirtation.

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_121_hood_128kb.mp3
Duration: 2:46

Len

Here is Section 107, "Faithless Nelly Gray." Another faithless maiden shows no pity for her poor lover, this time a legless army vet.

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_107_hood_128kb.mp3
Duration 3:38

Len

Here is Section 103, "Faithless Sally Brown." When Sally's beau Ben is shanghaied and carried off to sea, she faithlessly finds another Ben, named John.

https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_103_hood_128kb.mp3
Duration: 3:19

Len

Here is my second contribution, the gloomy story of a fallen maiden's suicide, Section 91, "The Bridge of Sighs." https://librivox.org/uploads/carolin/poeticalworks_091_hood_128kb.mp3 Duration: 4:18 Note for PL: I have corrected 2 errant words in the Gutenberg text. In the 5th stanza the w...