Horner94 wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2020, 7:17 pm Hello,
Author: Harry Graham (1874-1936)
Title: Plagues At The Play
URL to text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36543/36543-h/36543-h.htm#Page_57
Audio recording ready for PL'ing: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_plaguesattheplay_cjph_128kb.mp3
Time: 02:14
Kind regards,
Chad
What entertaining selections you got there, Chad! Thank you for your contributions! Delightful!Horner94 wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2020, 7:27 pm Hello,
And other submission:
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Title: The Cow
URL to text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25609/25609-h/25609-h.htm#THE_COW
Audio recording: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_thecow_cjph_128kb.mp3
Time: 00:46
Kind regards,
Chad
Grothmann wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2020, 10:13 pm Hi:
Something very different.
Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tzu
Chapter 11
a translation for the public domain by j.h.mcdonald
read for LibriVox dot org by Dale Grothmann
Time :56
Audio at --
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_chaptereleven_dg_128kb.mp3
Text at
http://www.wright-house.com/religions/taoism/tao-te-ching.html
Thanks
Dale
Poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, so a translation can have its own character, but my second thoughts are about the eligibility of the text. I try to stay away from anything post 1925 that is not cleared by gutenberg.org. Is this translation published in the public domain by a publishing house?Grothmann wrote: ↑May 25th, 2020, 11:55 am Hi:
I am beginning to have second thoughts about Tao Te Ching Cha. 11. Translating poetry from one language to another, and keeping any semblance of meter or structure is difficult enough, but keeping the essential meaning is nearly impossible. This comes the closest I can find, in those translations which are in Public Domain. See what you think.
Thanks
Dale
(because our text policies about what texts can be recorded https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Recording_%26_Text_Policies exclude self-published works)
Thank you, Sonia! Another great find and worthy addition to the catalogue of an author!Kitty wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2020, 10:09 am and my last for this month, describing the moment of Napoleon's coronation, but this poem is not a heroic poem, but rather blaming the protagonist for his ambition
"Champ de Mai" by John Augustus Shea (1802-1845) / new guy in town: found a bit about him here: https://www.eapoe.org/people/sheaja.htm and here: http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=36536
Text URL: https://archive.org/details/adolphandotherp00sheagoog/page/n146/mode/2up
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_champdemai_ss_128kb.mp3
Recording time: 5:54 min.
see you next month !
Sonia
This is a popular choice of a poem! Thank you for offering your own unique rendition!GraceBuchanan wrote: ↑May 25th, 2020, 10:34 am Hi Rapunzelina! I hope that you and your loved ones continue to be well.
[Title of Poem] by [Author] (BIRTH-DEATH): I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242
Duration: 0:44
MP3 URL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_imnobody_gb_128kb.mp3
I welcome your comments. Thanks!
Thank you, Larry! Lovely poem! Lovely scenery!silverquill wrote: ↑May 25th, 2020, 11:14 pm A final short one for May:
Oxford Meadows by William Force Stead (1884 – 1967)
https://archive.org/details/sweetmiracleothe00steaiala/page/72/mode/1up
1:00
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/spc204_oxford_lcw_128kb.mp3
I think he may be new to the LV Catalog, so here is a wiki link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Force_Stead