COMPLETE Short Poetry Collection 173 - rap

[orschiro]

Thank you, Orschiro! Welcome to the Poetry Collection! I have added your contribution

Yeah, thank you!

[k5hsj]

Rapunzelina,

Here are three early poems from the guy "who knows if the moon's a balloon."

Crepuscule by E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36508
Duration: 00:53
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_crepuscule_wt_128kb.mp3

Finis by E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36508
Duration: 00:58
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_finis_wt_128kb.mp3

Epitaph by E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36508
Duration: 00:37
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_epitaph_wt_128kb.mp3

Winston

[Rapunzelina]

Thank you, Winston! MW is updated!

[heathogden]

The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4399/pg4399-images.html

Duration: 2:44

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_singingwoman_ho_128kb.mp3

Hope it's alright.

[mitteldorf]

(Re-uploaded from last month:)

Brahm, by Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)

https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/furphy-joseph/brahm-0034003

Duration: 8:37

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_brahm_jjm_128kb.mp3

[mitteldorf]

(Re-uploaded from last month:)

Virtues that Pay, by Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)

https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/furphy-joseph/virtues-that-pay-0034009

Duration: 2:59

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_virtuesthatpay_jjm_128kb.mp3

[MillionMoments]

Flower of Night by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
Text URL: https://archive.org/stream/metricaltalesoth00love#page/106/mode/2up
Duration: 1 minute 41
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_flowerofnight_mgt_128kb.mp3

I have a question, if I want to read this poem: https://archive.org/stream/metricaltalesoth00love#page/104/mode/2up do I include the bit about "Written on Lake Ontario directly after visiting the falls"?

[mitteldorf]

Then Ancient Sage, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Text URL: https://americanliterature.com/author/alfred-lord-tennyson/poem/the-ancient-sage
(one typo - "habblings" for "babblings")
Duration: 19:27
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_ancientsage_jjm_128kb.mp3

[Ealswythe]

Here's a poem:

"In Harvest Time" by Charles Maurice Stebbins (1871-1937)
Text URL: https://archive.org/stream/christmaseveothe00steb#page/28/mode/2up
Duration: 2:02
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_harvesttime_lof_128kb.mp3

Thank you!

[Rapunzelina]

The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4399/pg4399-images.html

Duration: 2:44

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_singingwoman_ho_128kb.mp3

Hope it's alright.

Yes, it's alright! Very nicely recorded! Thank you, Heath!

[Rapunzelina]

Flower of Night by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
Text URL: https://archive.org/stream/metricaltalesoth00love#page/106/mode/2up
Duration: 1 minute 41
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_flowerofnight_mgt_128kb.mp3

I have a question, if I want to read this poem: https://archive.org/stream/metricaltalesoth00love#page/104/mode/2up do I include the bit about "Written on Lake Ontario directly after visiting the falls"?

Hi, Melanie! Thank you for your contribution!
Regarding the note in the poem, it's up to you! I would include it because I feel it adds to the meaning of the poem, but if you'd prefer just the poem in the recording, you can skip it

[Rapunzelina]

Here's a poem:

"In Harvest Time" by Charles Maurice Stebbins (1871-1937)
Text URL: https://archive.org/stream/christmaseveothe00steb#page/28/mode/2up
Duration: 2:02
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_harvesttime_lof_128kb.mp3

Thank you!

Thank You!

[Rapunzelina]

Virtues that Pay, by Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)

https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/furphy-joseph/virtues-that-pay-0034009

Duration: 2:59

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_virtuesthatpay_jjm_128kb.mp3

The Ancient Sage, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Text URL: https://americanliterature.com/author/alfred-lord-tennyson/poem/the-ancient-sage
(one typo - "habblings" for "babblings")
Duration: 19:27
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_ancientsage_jjm_128kb.mp3

Hello, Josh!
I would like to try to explain how we record works in the public domain:
First, we make sure that the text is in the public domain.
There are websites that offer texts that have been approved by a legal team to be in the public domain (e.g. gutenberg.org). So, for example, everything that says "Public domain in the USA." in the bibrec tab of the gutenberg page, is safe for Librivox.
Of course, the reader should make sure it's public domain in their country (where they are at the time) for the text/recording to be safely legal for them, too. That means, if they live in a country where a work enters the public domain 70 years after the death of the author, they should also check the author's and translator's death dates.
There are also websites that offer scanned books, where we can see date of publication (e.g. archive.org). So if we see year of publication 1922 and earlier, it's definitely safe for Librivox. Of course, there can be typos in a scanned book, but we would avoid OCR typos, like "habblings" for "babblings", or
"How summer-bright are yonder skies,
And earth as fair in lute!"
for
"How summer-bright are yonder skies,
And earth as fair in hue!"
see scanned book https://archive.org/details/tiresiasotherpoe00tennuoft page 54

Then, to make sure that the offered recording is in the public domain, too, we record the text as is.
We avoid adding personal notes, explanatory translations, etc.
If the text contains notes/footnotes, we can choose to include them or not with the main text, but we can't add notes/footnotes that are not included in the text in the first place.
We read the text in the order that was written, we don't omit passages in a recording.

Well, the more you record with Librivox and Public Domain, the more you learn how it works

So for Virtues that Pay, the note at the end should be removed.
For The Ancient Sage, I would suggest a straight reading from the scanned book https://archive.org/details/tiresiasotherpoe00tennuoft page 53

Every contribution here is very much appreciated! Even more so when it adds a new author or a lesser known poem, like it's often the case with you, and I like that! So I'm sorry if my explanations are abrupt or something; I was aiming for simple Let me know if I wasn't making any sense, or if there are questions!

[GrayHouse]

Predictably, I've gone for autumnal themes this month. I love autumn...

October by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dunbar01.html
Duration: 1:47
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_october_ik_128kb.mp3

October's Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hhj01.html
Duration: 1:59
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_octobersbrightblue_ik_128kb.mp3

Autumn by John Clare (1793-1864)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/clare01.html
Duration: 1:16
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_autumn_ik_128kb.mp3

Regards,
-Ian

[WiltedScribe]

Just in time for Halloween, here are my three spooky offerings for this month:

"The Little Ghost" by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/131/9.html
Duration: 1:35
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_littleghost_tp_128kb.mp3

"My Aunt's Spectre" by Mortimer Collins (1827-1876)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/263/144.html
Duration: 1:49
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_myauntsspectre_tp_128kb.mp3

"The White Witch" by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Text URL: http://www.bartleby.com/269/42.html
Duration: 3:39
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc173_whitewitch_tp_128kb.mp3