COMPLETE: [POETRY] Short Poetry Collection 068 - lm

[LeonMire]

Hello,

This is my very first LibriVox recording. I've been wanting to contribute for years so here I am. I'm in love with this poem. 8)

"Business" by Sam Walter Foss

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/business_foss_mjl.mp3

Length: 5m 34s
Size: 5.1mb

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/foss01.html#4

Mark J. Laydon

Thanks, Mark, for your recording.. and welcome to LibriVox! I'm glad you decided to take the plunge. I'd never read it, or even heard of Foss, but I enjoyed it too. It seems even more applicable to today's world. I especially liked the lines, "Preach like Savonarola; rule like Alfred; do not shirk; Paint like Raphael and Titian; build like Angelo--why not?" And your love of the poem definitely comes through.. so thanks for giving it a voice!

[LeonMire]

And another:

Drunk by D. H. Lawrence

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/drunk_lawrence_klh.mp3
http://www.bartleby.com/127/30.html

Thanks again, kristin! Somehow I was expecting this to be a humorous poem, but it turned out to be quite heartfelt, a sentiment which you captured very well in your reading. Haven't read hardly anything of Lawrence, but I enjoyed this one.

[LeonMire]

I posted my recording of Byron's All For Love
I think I forgot to give the source.
http://www.bartleby.com/106/169.html

Got it.. thanks!

[RuthieG]

A childhood favourite of mine - A Smuggler's Song from Puck of Pook's Hill (published 1906) by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).

Source URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/pkpkh10.txt
Upload URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/smugglerssong_kipling_rg.mp3
Duration: 2:32

EDIT: So sorry, I only just looked at the MW - I see by some curious co-incidence that this has already been submitted by A.N. Other. Please withhold mine until a later collection, Leon.

And, sorry Twit, this means you have a little longer to wait (post below).

RuthieG

[Jack Thro]

Link:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/inversnaid_hopkins_jt.mp3

Title: Inversnaid

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Online text link:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22403

Length of recording: 1 minute, 12 seconds

This is my first recording for LibriVox. Please have my name appear in the catalog as:
Jack Thro

Thanks,
Jack Thro

[Annoying Twit]

By my count I make that one more poem before a new collection is started and I can submit another two.

[LeonMire]

A childhood favourite of mine - A Smuggler's Song from Puck of Pook's Hill (published 1906) by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936).

Source URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/pkpkh10.txt
Upload URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/smugglerssong_kipling_rg.mp3
Duration: 2:32

EDIT: So sorry, I only just looked at the MW - I see by some curious co-incidence that this has already been submitted by A.N. Other. Please withhold mine until a later collection, Leon.

And, sorry Twit, this means you have a little longer to wait (post below).

RuthieG

Thanks, Ruthie! I've made a note to withhold this one till the next collection, but so you know, there isn't any "policy" that says we can only have one reading of a particular poem in each collection. Short Poetry 062, I think, had three different readings of "The Raven". If it's still your preference to wait till the next one, that's fine by me.. just let me know if you change your mind.

For what it's worth though, I already listened to it, and it'll be OK to catalog. Quite a different interpretation from Mike001's, but I enjoyed them both.

[LeonMire]

Link:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/inversnaid_hopkins_jt.mp3

Title: Inversnaid

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Online text link:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22403

Length of recording: 1 minute, 12 seconds

This is my first recording for LibriVox. Please have my name appear in the catalog as:
Jack Thro

Thanks,
Jack Thro

Thanks for your recording, Jack Thro.. and welcome to LibriVox! Looks like you've paid close attention to the instructions, which is definitely appreciated, and your reading itself sounds excellent.

One thing I might advise for the future, though, is to turn up the volume on your mic a bit. It was kind of difficult to hear you. It's hard to gauge that sort of thing on your first recording, so it's no big deal. (It's almost certainly not because you weren't talking loud enough). I'll just adjust the volume when I put this poetry collection in the catalog.

But like I said, nice reading! See you around!

-Leon

[anne21]

Here is a short poem by Thomas Hardy. Timing is 1:05.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/anaugustmidnight_hardy_ac.mp3

The text can be found at the Gutenberg Project here as part of the collection called 'Poems of the Past and Present'.

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/pmpst10.txt

Anne

[LeonMire]

Here is a short poem by Thomas Hardy. Timing is 1:05.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/anaugustmidnight_hardy_ac.mp3

The text can be found at the Gutenberg Project here as part of the collection called 'Poems of the Past and Present'.

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/pmpst10.txt

Anne

Thanks, Anne.. a well-read poem that's ok to catalog.

[PodVoxer]

Hello. Here is a very short poem by Dora Sigerson called Ireland.

MP3: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/ireland_sigerson_pv.mp3
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/101/881.html

Thanks.

PodVoxer

[LeonMire]

Hello. Here is a very short poem by Dora Sigerson called Ireland.

MP3: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/lm/ireland_sigerson_pv.mp3
Text: http://www.bartleby.com/101/881.html

Thanks.

PodVoxer

Thanks, PodVoxer, and well-read! Plus it sounds like you've got a high quality recording setup.

Yours makes 20 poems, which means that this collection is now closed. Please submit any new poems to Short Poetry Collection 069: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14961

[LeonMire]

This project was cataloged on July 27, 2008. All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-068/

Thanks to everyone who submitted a poem!