This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-wind-by-henry-bellamann/
Each fortnight a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!LibriVox volunteers bring you __ recordings of The Wind by Henry Bellamann.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 14, 2024.
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Heinrich Hauer (Henry) Bellamann is new to the LibriVox catalog. He was an American author, a poet, and a music professor at Vassar College. One of Bellamann's novels, Kings Row, was turned into a 1942 movie starring Ronald Reagan and is considered his most memorable performance. (Summary by Wikipedia and TriciaG)
This fortnight's poem can be found here.
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Begin your reading with the abbreviated LibriVox disclaimer:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Then read the poem:The Wind by Henry Bellamann, read for librivox.org by [your name].
[Add, if you wish, date, and/or your location.]
At the end of your reading, leave a space and then say:Only the wind is ageless.
The sea was long since old;
Its tides more bitter
Than the bitterest tears,
Are hag-ridden of the moon —
The moon itself shrunken and blind
And mayhaps mad.
The once tumultuous earth lies mouldering.
Worm-eaten, oblivious and black,
The rocks are rotting in the dark.
Thin scums of life
Creep with the seasons
Hunted by hungry suns
And stilled at last with snow.
Only the wind is ageless.
Restless, variable, and fresh
With all caprice.
The wind flows as a river,
Is still, or darts like a falcon
Through the changing zones.
All else is destined to its way:
Earth, moon and stars
Move on the unexploring feet
Of age.
Only the wind is young
And friend to youth.
Its wings are eager
Of discovery.
It mocks the moon,
It drives the sea,
And scorns the land.
Its beauty rides invisible
And all its ways are ways
Of gay disdain.
Only the clouds belong to it —
The lonely, lovely clouds
That are the trailing garments
Of its processional.
Only the clouds can be
So proud, remote and secret,
But they pass:
The wind returns —
Only the wind in all the universe
Is ageless.
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.
Filename: wind_bellamann_your initials in lowercase_128kb.mp3 (e.g. wind_bellamann_klh_128kb.mp3)
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Deadline: Please submit your recording by 0600 GMT Sunday, January 28th (12:00 AM CST)
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