COMPLETE Short Poetry Collection 189 - rap

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VoiceoverSam
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Post by VoiceoverSam »

Hello LibriVox Community!

Please find my first submission to LibriVox - I would very much appreciate any PLs/feedback/criticisms.

Thanks!

"A Golden Day" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
Text URL: http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/pagolden.htm
Duration: 1:33
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_agoldenday_sh_128kb.mp3
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Rapunzelina -

Here's my second for the month -

The Life and Age of Man by Anonymous
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/649/649-h/649-h.htm#page20
Duration: 3:18
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/lifeandageofman_anonymous_ps_128kb.mp3

It reminds me of The Seven Ages of Man by Shakespeare. The header of this says, "From one of Thackeray’s Catalogues...", but I believe he is just the editor of the collection, not the author of the poem. I also think that this Thackeray is not the William Makepeace Thackeray most are familiar with who wrote Vanity Fair, but a different man working at least 40 years before WMT was born.
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soupy wrote: February 12th, 2019, 8:30 am On an Islandic Giesar by Erasmus Darwin from The Botanic Garden
Thank you, Craig! :9: PL OK and in the Magic Window!
silverquill wrote: February 12th, 2019, 10:28 am The Life-Saver by Joseph C. Lincoln (1870 – 1944)
Anselmo by James Whitcomb Riley (1849 – 1916)
Thank you, Larry! I especially appreciated "The Life-Saver"! Both PL OK and in the MW!
KIBBONAFIDE wrote: February 13th, 2019, 7:09 pm "A Litany of Atlanta" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)


"Seattle" by W.P. Heneage (died 1891/2?)
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_seattle_jk_128kb.mp3
1:26

I originally found the poem in the beginning of this book:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044009883190;view=2up;seq=15;skin=mobile

When I went to look up the author, no Wikipedia page and no biographical information on the internet that I could find except for this article ( https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=SEATPINT18960621.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- ) from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (June 21, 1896), which ends a profile about him with this paragraph:

"Poor Heneage, his life was a mystery! His conduct was so exemplary in the penitentiary that he was soon made librarian of the institution, which position he held, up to the time of his death, four or five years ago".

That's the only thing I could find that speaks to a death date.

The only other thing I should mention is that the newspaper article also reprinted the poem and that one was a little easier to read from. The article is later but still old enough. Sorry to be difficult on this one! :)
And in the article it also says that when they met in 1887, "He was apparently about 30 years of age", which gives us the birth date around 1857. If so, he wasn't more than 35 when he died!...

Thank you for your contributions! PL OK and in the Magic Window!
silverquill wrote: February 15th, 2019, 3:10 pm Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth (1770 –1850)
In the MW! Thank you, Larry!


VoiceoverSam wrote: February 16th, 2019, 2:30 am Hello LibriVox Community!

Please find my first submission to LibriVox - I would very much appreciate any PLs/feedback/criticisms.

Thanks!

"A Golden Day" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
Text URL: http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/pagolden.htm
Duration: 1:33
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_agoldenday_sh_128kb.mp3
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pschempf wrote: February 16th, 2019, 12:07 pm
The Life and Age of Man by Anonymous

It reminds me of The Seven Ages of Man by Shakespeare. The header of this says, "From one of Thackeray’s Catalogues...", but I believe he is just the editor of the collection, not the author of the poem. I also think that this Thackeray is not the William Makepeace Thackeray most are familiar with who wrote Vanity Fair, but a different man working at least 40 years before WMT was born.
Yes, indeed; it does remind me, too, of the seven ages of man! Magic No 7!
I agree with you and I've put the author as "Unknown".
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Post by ColleenMc »

Here are mine for this collection:

Shadow March by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51734/51734-h/51734-h.htm#Page_286

0:51

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_shadowmarch_cm_128kb.mp3



Will It Be Like This? by Miriam Allen DeFord (1888-1975)

Text URL: https://archive.org/details/jstor-20573281

0:45

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_willitbelikethis_cm_128kb.mp3



Fridleif and Helga by Adam Oehlenschläger (1779 - 1850) Translated by George Borrow (1803-1881)

Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2430

4:58

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_fridleifandhelga_cm_128kb.mp3


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Post by Rapunzelina »

Thank you, Colleen! Quite the somber selection! PL OK and in the MW!
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Post by VoiceoverSam »

Hi Rapunzelina

Please find my below my second contribution. Any and all criticism, PLs and feedback welcome.

"The Tables Turned" by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8905/pg8905.html
Duration: 1:24
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_thetablesturned_sh_128kb.mp3

As for a specific name to be credited by in the catalogue, VoiceoverSam is fine.

Kind regards
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Thank you, Sam!
All great with your recording, and it has been added to the Magic Window!
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Post by ScottishDave »

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/burns01.html#1
Duration: 00:57s
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_redredrose_djg_128kb.mp3

This is my first recording for LibriVox: Name to appear in the catalog: David J. Glover
Last edited by ScottishDave on February 24th, 2019, 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by ScottishDave »

Of A' the Airts by Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/burns01.html#1
Duration: 00:50s
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_ofatheairts_djg_128kb.mp3

This is my second recording for LibriVox. Name as to appear in the catalog: David J. Glover
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Hi David! Welcome to Librivox and to the poetry collection!
Thank you for contributing with these marvelously performed poems! PL OK and in the Magic Window.
I will be looking forward to one about squirrels :mrgreen:
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Post by GrayHouse »

One more for the collection.

The Dog by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
Text URL: https://archive.org/details/dreamtalesprosep00turguoft/page/246
Duration: 1:49
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_dog_ik_128kb.mp3

Thanks,
-Ian
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Post by k5hsj »

Rapunzelina,

Here are three for a windy, rainy day in February (at least in the San Francisco Bay Area):

Thursday by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4399
Duration: 0:40
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_thursday_wt_128kb.mp3

You cannot put a Fire out by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Text: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12241
Duration: 0:41
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_cannotputfireout_wt_128kb.mp3

On the Threshold by Amy Levy (1861-1881)
Text: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56974
Duration: 1:01
MP3: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_onthethreshold_wt_128kb.mp3

Cheers,

Winston
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Post by Rapunzelina »

Thank you Ian and Winston for enriching the collection! :D MW updated!
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Post by HughMichael »

Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906)
Text URL: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dunbar01.html#13
Duration: 1:04
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc_189_lifestragedy_hm_128kb.mp3

Thank you

Hugh Michael
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Post by GrayHouse »

And one more from me:

Transformations by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3255/3255-h/3255-h.htm [page 89]
Duration: 1:08
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc189_transformations_ik_128kb.mp3

Thanks,
-Ian
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