This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into three sections: Poems of Meditation, Poems of Forest and Field, an Footpaths. ( Larry Wilson)
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"[Poem title], by Madison Cawein, read for LibriVox.org" by [your name] or some variation on that, adding date, location, your personal URL, etc., if you wish.
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
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poemscawein5_###_cawein_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ### is the section number (e.g. poemscawein5_001_cawein_128kb.mp3) NOTE: Use three-digits for section number including leading zeros
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I'm out of commission for a few days, but will take some of these when I get back. FYI - Volumes 1-4 are also available on Gutenberg. You could just about make a career of these.
Fritz
"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."
pschempf wrote: ↑October 14th, 2018, 12:39 pm
Larry -
I'm out of commission for a few days, but will take some of these when I get back. FYI - Volumes 1-4 are also available on Gutenberg. You could just about make a career of these.
Yep, they are. I debated about starting with Vol 1, but I thought this would be more accessible to get things started, but I'd love to get them all done in due course.
Your MW is set up, you'll have some work to fill all the titles in
Be careful not to use the order of the table of content, because that one is in alphabetical order for some reason, not the correct order the poems come in.
So, many interruptions while filling in the MW (but that's life right now).
I little sorting on my spreadsheet got these in order, but then I had to put the articles back to the front of the titles.
I may do word counts, but for now I think we are ready for readers and a good DPL.
Or course, I took my pick of poems first, but there are so many to chooser from --- everything from a Toad in a Skull to Deity.