COMPLETEWorld's Best Poetry, Vol. 3 (Part II) by Various-mas

[lian2902952]

ALL DONE GUYS ! section 108, 116,117 and 118 are up for PL

Here are my part for section 72
https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/worldsbestpoetryvolume3_2_072_lian_various_128kb.mp3

and section 89
https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/worldsbestpoetryvolume3_2_089_lian_various_128kb.mp3

Sorry this took me so long

[Kitty]

Wonderful Lian This project got a good boost lately. Excellent.

And I'll see you over in "Love" soon

Happy Halloween (if you are celebrating that)

Sonia

[WiltedScribe]

Thank you for your hard work, Lian! We're about 99% done now, which is amazing. I will edit together the DRs and upload them this evening, and then all we will need are Anthony to PL and "The May Queen."

See you over at Love, Part I!

[afutterer]

PL NOTES:

SECTIONS 108, 116, 117, 118

PL OK

[zwergwolf]

We'll finish this tonight - I'll start working on it later after dinner!

[zwergwolf]

Now I've got a vocabulary/pronounciation question.

I'm pretty sure this is the "wind" that rhymes on e.g. hint

All other words on the end of the lines are rhyming with the following line, I'm a bit confused because in these lines they don't, do they?

With all my strength I prayed for both,—and so I felt resigned,
And up the valley came a swell of music on the wind.

For great delight and shuddering took hold of all my mind,
And up the valley came again the music on the wind.

[Kitty]

Now I've got a vocabulary/pronounciation question.

I'm pretty sure this is the "wind" that rhymes on e.g. hint

All other words on the end of the lines are rhyming with the following line, I'm a bit confused because in these lines they don't, do they?

Hi Gaby

I would say this is a typical case of "half-rhyme". Using words that look as if they rhymed but don't. It's not the first time I encountered it in poetry. Also, maybe in the times of Tennyson, these words did sound more similar than nowadays, that could be. I'm pretty sure the meaning would be "wind" as in "air movement".

But maybe our native English speakers have a different view of this ?

Sonia

[WiltedScribe]

Hi Gaby,

I think Sonia is right. I would pronounce it as the rhyme with 'hint' because the other variant ('wind' as in to turn something, that rhymes with 'kind' or 'dined') does not make as much sense.

[zwergwolf]

Thank you both.

because the other variant ('wind' as in to turn something, that rhymes with 'kind' or 'dined') does not make as much sense.

you're right, but.... why do the authors do that "non-rhyming" in two lines somewhere in the middle of the text
It sounds kind of "broken" there, for the other lines do rhyme (at least nearly they nearly do).

Ok guys, there were two words I mispronounced, so I'll record them again, I should have looked them up before Unfortunately I cannot do this here and now, so I'll go for it tomorrow morning. I hope you're fine with that...
Everything else is edited and finished!

[WiltedScribe]

you're right, but.... why do the authors do that "non-rhyming" in two lines somewhere in the middle of the text
It sounds kind of "broken" there, for the other lines do rhyme (at least nearly they nearly do).

Ok guys, there were two words I mispronounced, so I'll record them again, I should have looked them up before Unfortunately I cannot do this here and now, so I'll go for it tomorrow morning. I hope you're fine with that...
Everything else is edited and finished!

Hi Gaby,

I think it's a stylistic choice. I'm not all that familiar with Tennyson's poetry, but perhaps he's done it before.

And that's OK; I still need another file from Lian, so this project is still 99.5% finished. I did, however, upload the completed file of "The Death of Minnehaha," which sounds wonderful!

[WiltedScribe]

Lian,

Could you record and upload the following ASAP? The project's completion now rests on how quickly you can do this:

SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP.

XCIII.

How pure at heart and sound in head,

With what divine affections bold,

Should be the man whose thought would hold

An hour's communion with the dead.


In vain shalt thou, or any, call

The spirits from their golden day,

Except, like them, thou too canst say,

My spirit is at peace with all.


They haunt the silence of the breast,

Imaginations calm and fair,

The memory like a cloudless air,

The conscience as a sea at rest:


But when the heart is full of din,

And doubt beside the portal waits,

They can but listen at the gates,

And hear the household jar within.

L.

Do we indeed desire the dead

Should still be near us at our side?

Is there no baseness we would hide?

No inner vileness that we dread?


Shall he for whose applause I strove,

I had such reverence for his blame,

See with clear eye some hidden shame,

And I be lessened in his love?


I wrong the grave with fears untrue:

Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

There must be wisdom with great Death:

The dead shall look me through and through.


Be near us when we climb or fall:

Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours

With larger other eyes than ours,

To make allowance for us all.

[zwergwolf]

Yay, here we go! My final contribution to this part

https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/worldsbestpoetryvolume3_2_057_various_128kb.mp3

14:37

Thanks so much, Anthony

[Kitty]

Yay, here we go! My final contribution to this part
https://librivox.org/uploads/maryannspiegel/worldsbestpoetryvolume3_2_057_various_128kb.mp3
14:37

no small feat Gaby !!!

Sonia

[WiltedScribe]

Hurray! Thank you so much, Gaby! 99.9% done. I'm so proud of everyone.

[afutterer]

PL NOTES:

SECTION 57 - The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

PL OK