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Next week would be fine if you would like to BC this poem. Thanks Alan.
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aradlaw wrote: August 16th, 2021, 8:29 am Next week would be fine if you would like to BC this poem. Thanks Alan.
Hi David
I am ok to go with this next week. I will launch it on Sunday if you confirm before then.
I assume you will MC and I will DPL.
I have BCed a project before but many years ago so I will need to relearn the ropes. :)
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Suggestion for Fortnightly Poem:
Embedded within Canto 3 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a four verse poem beginning "the castle crag of Drachenfels". Although this is not usually treated as a separate poem I think it would make a good Fortnightly Poem as the text would be in the first post, to save people searching for it, and the Gutenberg text of Childe Harold could be named as the PD source for cataloguing.
I would happy to BC this:

The castled crag of Drachenfels
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.
Whose breast of waters broadly swells
Between the banks which bear the vine,
And hills all rich with blossomed trees,
And fields which promise corn and wine,
And scattered cities crowning these,
Whose far white walls along them shine,
Have strewed a scene, which I should see
With double joy wert THOU with me!

And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes,
And hands which offer early flowers,
Walk smiling o'er this paradise;
Above, the frequent feudal towers
Through green leaves lift their walls of grey,
And many a rock which steeply lours,
And noble arch in proud decay,
Look o'er this vale of vintage bowers:
But one thing want these banks of Rhine,—
Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine!

I send the lilies given to me;
Though long before thy hand they touch,
I know that they must withered be,
But yet reject them not as such;
For I have cherished them as dear,
Because they yet may meet thine eye,
And guide thy soul to mine e'en here,
When thou behold'st them drooping nigh,
And know'st them gathered by the Rhine,
And offered from my heart to thine!

The river nobly foams and flows,
The charm of this enchanted ground,
And all its thousand turns disclose
Some fresher beauty varying round;
The haughtiest breast its wish might bound
Through life to dwell delighted here;
Nor could on earth a spot be found
To Nature and to me so dear,
Could thy dear eyes in following mine
Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine!
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That sounds good Alan. I will look for this Fortnightly on Sunday (Sept. 5) :D
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aradlaw wrote: August 31st, 2021, 10:16 am That sounds good Alan. I will look for this Fortnightly on Sunday (Sept. 5) :D
Hi David
I am very busy today so I will launch this early tomorrow, probably before most of our North American members are awake.
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Hi David,

I would like to suggest for the Weekly a delightful little poem by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell (1860 - 1918).

Described as "the most beloved of Canadian poems" and one so appropriate for this time of year (and not yet LV catalogued), it is "Indian Summer".

"Indian Summer" was first published in 1888 (in "Snowflakes and Sunbeams") and can also be found in this 1889 volume "Lake Lyrics and Other Poems" at:
https://archive.org/details/lakelyricsotherp00campuoft/page/112/mode/2up

The author's Wiki entry is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilfred_Campbell

Here is my sample description to use if you wish:

This wonderful poem by William Wilfred Campbell captures the essence of a Canadian Autumn - its sights, smells and sounds - and brings to life the beauty of a land displaying unsurpassed splendor while facing the inevitability of the first of many blankets of snow.

Thanks,
Bruce.
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'Our Prayer of Thanks'
by Carl Sandburg

From Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

https://www.bartleby.com/265/325.html


GOD,
For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river,
Our prayer of thanks.

God,
For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted and bareheaded in the summer grass,
Our prayer of thanks.

God,
For the sunset and the stars, the women and their white arms that hold us,
Our prayer of thanks.

God,
If you are deaf and blind, if this is all lost to you,
God, if the dead in their coffins amid the silver handles on the edge of town, or the reckless dead of war days thrown unknown in pits, if these dead are forever deaf and blind and lost,
Our prayer of thanks.

God,
The game is all your way, the secrets and the signals and the system; and so, for the break of the game and the first play and the last,
Our prayer of thanks.
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Thanks for the suggestion Kevin, but Sanburg died in 1967 and would not be PD for our 70+ countires.
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aradlaw wrote: November 14th, 2021, 8:52 pm Thanks for the suggestion Kevin, but Sanburg died in 1967 and would not be PD for our 70+ countires.
Thank you. I hadn't thought of that.
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I'd like to suggest a new poet, Dorothy Frances McCrae. She was an Australian poet, but I don't have any other info on her. Her dates are 1878-1937, which I got from a catalogue entry in the National Library of Australia:
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1759621

'September' is quite short and might make a good weekly:

September

YOU kissed me in June;
To-day, in September,
There ripples the rune;
‘Remember! Remember!’

We part in September—
How ripples the rune?
‘Remember! Remember
You kissed me in June!’

Taken from:
https://www.bartleby.com/249/162.html


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Here's one that should be in our catalog. I can BC it after the first of the year, unless someone else wants to do it sooner.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus
(first published in the February 1858 issue of The Atlantic Monthly)

The Chambered Nautilus
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.


This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,—
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,—
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:—

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
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I noticed Wikipedia/Wikicommons doesn't seem to have a recording of "America the Beautiful" in its original poem form (just as musical versions)

Would any Americans be able to record it and upload it to Wikicommons? As thanksgiving has just been it would seem a good time to do it and I can help with integrating into the wiki-world (if you needed)

https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/america-the-beautiful-lyrics/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Katharine_Lee_Bates_America_the_Beautiful

https://www.bartleby.com/272/2.html
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Post by KDTaylor »

I believe James Fenimore Cooper, beloved though he is as a novelist, has been little appreciated for his poetry. I would therefore propose a reading of Cooper's "My Brigantine":

https://www.bartleby.com/360/5/283.html
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KDTaylor wrote: December 24th, 2021, 5:32 pm I believe James Fenimore Cooper, beloved though he is as a novelist, has been little appreciated for his poetry. I would therefore propose a reading of Cooper's "My Brigantine":

https://www.bartleby.com/360/5/283.html
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Wonderful! :D
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