COMPLETE Short Poetry Collection 185 - rap

Post by **Rapunzelina** » October 12th, 2018, 11:01 am

lurcherlover wrote: ↑October 12th, 2018, 7:33 am https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_deathbenotproud_pt_128kb.mp3

John Donne (1573-1631) - Sonnet - Death be not Proud - Duration 1:12

Source: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/poem-cd.html

I've also uploaded Parson Gray by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Duration: 1:22 but I've lost the link to the upload and can't get it back!
Source: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/poem-gh.html

Link now found https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_parsongray_pt_128kb.mp3

Thanks to Sonia

Peter

Hi Peter! Nice to hear your voice again!

Thank you for your contributions!!
"Death be not proud" is in the MW marked PL OK!
"Parson Gray" is missing the last verse, I think. So it just needs this small addition in the end

Craig's "Pharsalia", and Sonia's "Auf dem Heimweg" are also in the MW. Thank you guys! I love your reading!

Post by **Kitty** » October 12th, 2018, 2:19 pm

and here I found a funny one and also very fitting for autumn. It's all about apples and how they tasted better in our youth. Somehow it's quite a modern complaint. The apples tasted better when I was a kid.

The poem is even funnier if you know the French original by Villon, who also complains about where the good old times have gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballade_des_dames_du_temps_jadis

All right, here's my spoof version now:

"The ballad of departed pippins" by anonymous
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35713
Recording time: 2:02 min.
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_balladofdepartedpippins_ss_128kb.mp3

Sonia

pschempf · Post by **pschempf** » October 12th, 2018, 5:36 pm

Hi Rapunzelina -

Another poem from me -

Friendship After Love by Ella Wilcox Wheeler (1850 – 1919)
Text URL: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/friendship-after-love
Duration: 1:04
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_friendshipafterlove_ps_128kb.mp3

A poem for the autumn, although the title doesn't suggest it.

neddieseagoon · Post by **neddieseagoon** » October 12th, 2018, 7:33 pm

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Text URL: https://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html
Duration: Re-uploaded - new duration 4:51
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_thanatopsis_geh_128kb.mp3

An interesting counterpoint to Death Be Not Proud. Not that I intended it as such. I planned to record this a week ago, but a head cold got in the way. (If you listen closely you may still be able to hear traces of it in some of my final nasals. I hope it's not too intrusive.)

neddieseagoon · Post by **neddieseagoon** » October 12th, 2018, 7:44 pm

Sonnet CXXX by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Text URL: https://www.bartleby.com/70/50130.html
Duration: 1:06
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_sonnetcxxx_geh_128kb.mp3

lurcherlover · Post by **lurcherlover** » October 13th, 2018, 12:38 am

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_parsongray_pt_128kb.mp3

New upload with final verse! Sorry about that - I'm obviously losing it!

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/poem-gh.html

New duration 1:32
1.5MB

Peter

Post by **Rapunzelina** » October 14th, 2018, 1:39 pm

Thank you, Peter, Sonia, Phil and Grant (nothing intrusive whatsoever, and I hope you're feeling totally fine now

)

All the poems had an autumn feeling, or maybe it was my impression after an entire day of rain

soupy · Post by **soupy** » October 15th, 2018, 6:11 pm

Epitaphs on Mrs. Oldfield 1731 by Anonymous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Oldfield

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53351

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_anneoldfield_cc_128kb.mp3

1:03

Craig

neddieseagoon · Post by **neddieseagoon** » October 17th, 2018, 7:51 pm

Here's another, short but sweet:

Song by Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)
Text URL: https://www.bartleby.com/105/42.html
Duration: 0:52
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_song_geh_128kb.mp3

Post by **Rapunzelina** » October 18th, 2018, 3:27 pm

Thank you, Craig and Grant!

MW is now updated with your interesting contributions!!

Mmemari · Post by **Mmemari** » October 19th, 2018, 7:48 am

Hello,

I just uploaded the poem titled October, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"October" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

Duration: 1 min. 43sec

Text: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_october_mp_128kb.mp3

k5hsj · Post by **k5hsj** » October 20th, 2018, 11:22 pm

Rapunzelina,

Here are three for October:

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Text: https://www.bartleby.com/42/635.html
Duration: 4.23
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_ulysses_wt_128kb.mp3

Circe by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28666
Duration: 2:12
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_circe_wt_128kb.mp3

Credo by Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966)
Text: https://archive.org/details/mushroomsabookf00kreygoog/page/n28
Duration: 0:54
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_credo_wt_128kb.mp3

Halloween is just around the corner--is that a big, black bird I see perched above the door?

Winston

silverquill · Post by **silverquill** » October 21st, 2018, 9:14 pm

A little late for getting mine in this month, but here you go:

The Arctic Voyager by Henry Timrod (1829 –1867)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/845
2:38
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_arcticvoyager_lcw_128kb.mp3

Th Comet--October, 1858 Charles Sangster (1822 –1893)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24819
2:42
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_comet_lcw_128kb.mp3

Testament by Francis Brett Young (1884 – 1954)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40344
7:13
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_testament_lcw_128kb.mp3

pschempf · Post by **pschempf** » October 21st, 2018, 10:03 pm

Hi Rapunzelina -

My third for the month -

A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Text URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015018617145;view=1up;seq=203
Duration: 2:00
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_psalmoflife_ps_128kb.mp3

Wikipedia says, "...Longfellow scholar Robert L. Gale referred to "A Psalm of Life" as "the most popular poem ever written in English"." I'm surprised it wasn't in the LV Catalog.

Nedge · Post by **Nedge** » October 22nd, 2018, 6:41 pm

Here's one for ... whenever. (There is a LOT of poetry to listen to! I love Librivox.)

Nan

Fringford Brook by Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17933
2:02
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc185_fringfordbrook_nd_128kb.mp3