[COMPLETE] Short Poetry Collection 133 - tg

[TriciaG]

A Song in Storm:
I don't trust that poetry source, so I'm going to use http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21777/21777-h/21777-h.htm#A_SONG_IN_STORM as the source. PL OK!

Bush Christening:
Keep in mind when using that poetry source, that while the poems may be public domain in Australia, they might not be in the US. So make sure the poem is published in 1922 or earlier, or use one of the sources in the first post. PL OK!

Gunga Din:
I'm using this as the source: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/kiplin02.html#6
There are some minor differences in the text, but nothing to worry about. PL OK!

The Sword of Pain:
PL OK!

[fiddlesticks]

Here is my submission!

Time: 1:54

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_thepilgrimswants_fs_128kb.mp3

end of Chapter 12
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6440

[TriciaG]

Here is my submission!

Time: 1:54

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_thepilgrimswants_fs_128kb.mp3

end of Chapter 12
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6440

Do you know that the poem is by Martha Finley, or did she get it from somewhere else?

EDIT: I just started listening, and hear that you put it as Anonymous. So never mind. PL OK!

[fiddlesticks]

Oops, sorry, I was in a hurry when I posted it!

[rita1075]

Hello,
I would like to submit a short poem titled “Presence of Love” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Presence of Love, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
Text URL:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29092
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_presenceoflove_cea_128kb.mp3

Duration: 01:19
Please credit me as Eunah Choi.
I think I have to give a note regarding the poem's title. When you download the etext from the link I

gave you above and try to search through the ebook file, you won't be able to find any poem by the title

“Presence of Love”. However, you CAN find the words such as “noisiest hour” or “cloud-reflecting

lake”. That's because the words of the poem I recorded actually come from FRAGMENTS 25 and 26 by Samuel

Taylor Coleridge. The MC for the Weekly Poetry Project, aradlaw, set the title of those lines as “The

Presence of Love”, and he chose it as the weekly poetry project for June 8th. I originally planned to

submit this recording for that project, but when I logged on to the LV forum just few hours ago, I found

out that the project has already been cataloged. So, as an alternative, I decided to make a contribution

for the Short Poetry Collection 133 by uploading this file which hopefully can be added to the

collection. For more details on this matter, please have a look at the forum post "COMPLETE [W P] The Presence of Love by Coleridge - dl" by visiting the link below:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=52368

Thanks. Please let me know if you find any problems in this file.

[pschempf]

Tricia-

Here's a submission for the collection:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_seafarer_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 6:49
Source: https://archive.org/details/poems00idd
See page 109

A less edited version than the one by Pound currently in the LV catalog.

[TriciaG]

Thank you, Eunah! I'll PL it tomorrow, hopefully.

Tricia-

Here's a submission for the collection:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_seafarer_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 6:49
Source: https://archive.org/details/poems00idd
See page 109

A less edited version than the one by Pound currently in the LV catalog.

Could you please check the source URL? I get a "not found" error. Also, what's the title and author?

EDIT: OK, I listened to the first few seconds and discovered the title and author. But I still need a working text link.

[rita1075]

Hello,
I recorded two of Shakespeare's sonnets, sonnets 018 and 105. Those are my favorite poems, and I always wanted to make recordings of those lovely pieces with my own voice.
Sonnet 018 by William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Text URL:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1041
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_sonnet018_cea_128kb.mp3

Duration: 01:31
Sonnet 105 by William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_sonnet105_cea_128kb.mp3

Duration: 01:37
I would like to dedicate my recording of Sonnet 018 to all the volunteers and staff at Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders. Especially, I really would like to use this space to express my heartfelt thanks to all the PGDP volunteers. As Shakespeare wrote in the last two lines of Sonnet 18, every one of those PGDP volunteers will be remembered as long as "men can breathe or eyes can see". Without DP and PG, I couldn't have graduated from college with a B.A. in English literature. Thank you so much! Your hard work to produce universally accessible versions of public domain texts has enabled me to become a contributing LV member, and the recording process gives me a truly awesome feeling, knowing that I can share my joy of reading with the whole world through my recordings for LV.

[TriciaG]

Presence of Love: Volume is too low. Please amplify by 5 dB, and then you'll probably want to do noise removal.

Sonnet 18: This one's volume is low, too, but you have some spikes that prevent enough amplification. It should be OK if you amplify it as much as you can (1.7 dB, according to my Audacity), then probably run noise removal.

Sonnet 105: Amplify by 5 dB then run noise removal.

Well read! Let me know if you need instruction on amplifying or noise removal.

[pschempf]

Tricia-

Here's a submission for the collection:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_seafarer_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 6:49
Source: https://archive.org/details/poems00idd
See page 109

A less edited version than the one by Pound currently in the LV catalog.

Could you please check the source URL? I get a "not found" error. Also, what's the title and author?

EDIT: OK, I listened to the first few seconds and discovered the title and author. But I still need a working text link.

Sorry a little too enthusiastic with my clipping - needed one more i - and too brief with my description.

Title: The Seafarer: a Translation from Old English Lyric, 1901
Author: Anonymous
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_seafarer_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 6:49
Translator: Lola LaMotte Iddings (1858-1918)
Source: https://archive.org/details/poems00iddi
See page 109

[TriciaG]

Ah, yes - that's much better!

Here is me being picky. Feel free to change or dismiss as OK any of these PL notes:

0:20 - text "How oft through laborious days" I heard "laborous"

0:58 - "Nor how I on the ice-cold sea" - a blip/glitch in the editing?

1:26 - text "then the terns, icy-feathered" I heard "ice-feathered"

2:13 - "There is no one that dwells upon earth" - a blip/glitch on "upon earth"

[pschempf]

Tricia-

Here's a patched version-
https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/spc133_seafarer_ps_128kb.mp3
Track length: 6:47

I wish my patches were more seamless. Hard to replicate the tone and previous treatments

[TriciaG]

I think they were seamless, except perhaps the last one. the rest I couldn't tell where the edit was. PL OK - thanks!

[pschempf]

Hmmm - maybe I'm listening too hard. And I know where the cuts were

[rita1075]

Hello, TriciaG,
Thank you for your feedback. I will try to do the editing as you suggested. I am going to look at the page named "Audacity for Blind Users", and try to find out if I can do amplifying and noise removal on Audacity independently using my screen reader. I saved both WAV and MP3 files for each of my recording, so I will use the WAV file for my editing because I think it will produce better sound quality even after noise-cleaning or amplifying.
But I have to tell you that I may ask for your assistance if I cannot do those tasks by myself using a keyboard and and a screen reader. Since I am totally blind, and therefore cannot use a mouse, I may not be able to do either one of the two tasks on my own. For now, it would be appreciated if you could please wait until I give you further notice about my progress through this forum.
Thanks. I will do my best to improve my recordings.