tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41920304736356719522024-03-14T01:10:00.972-04:00Eclectic RhapsodicsAll about Performing Classic Poetry DramaticallyRobert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.comBlogger514125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-41493160418487351242020-11-15T07:00:00.000-05:002020-11-15T07:00:00.152-05:00The Fish<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/64thBD_EclecticVerseRhapsody/25_TheFish_Moore.mp3" target="_blank">The Fish (1:42)</a></h2>
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by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marianne-moore" target="_blank">Marianne Moore</a><b> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b>performed by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/rhapsodeone/posts/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span class="s1">Marianne Moore was born this day in 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri</span></div>
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The Fish</div>
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wade</div>
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through black jade.</div>
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Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps</div>
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adjusting the ash-heaps;</div>
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opening and shutting itself like</div>
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an</div>
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injured fan.</div>
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The barnacles which encrust the side</div>
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of the wave, cannot hide</div>
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there for the submerged shafts of the</div>
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sun,</div>
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split like spun</div>
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glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness</div>
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into the crevices —</div>
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in and out, illuminating</div>
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the</div>
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turquoise sea</div>
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of bodies. The water drives a wedge</div>
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of iron through the iron edge</div>
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of the cliff; whereupon the stars,</div>
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pink</div>
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rice-grains, ink-</div>
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bespattered jelly-fish, crabs like green</div>
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lilies, and submarine</div>
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toadstools, slide each on the other.</div>
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All</div>
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external</div>
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marks of abuse are present on this</div>
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defiant edifice —</div>
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all the physical features of</div>
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ac-</div>
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cident — lack</div>
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of cornice, dynamite grooves, burns, and </div>
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hatchet strokes, these things stand</div>
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out on it; the chasm-side is</div>
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dead.</div>
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Repeated</div>
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evidence has proved that it can live</div>
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on what can not revive</div>
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its youth. The sea grows old in it.</div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-61770966817470716712020-07-23T09:00:00.000-04:002020-07-23T09:00:02.299-04:00Phoebe of the Scottish Glen<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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Listen to:</div>
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/rhapsode-random-rhapsody-may2020/29_Phoebe%20of%20the%20Scottish%20Glen_Clare.mp3" target="_blank">Phoebe of the Scottish Glen (1:15)</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">by John Clare</span><b> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Agen I'll take my idle pen<br />
And sing my bonny mountain maid—<br />
Sweet Phoebe of the Scottish glen,<br />
Nor of her censure feel afraid.<br />
I'll charm her ear with beauty's praise,<br />
And please her eye with songs agen—<br />
The ballads of our early days—<br />
To Phoebe of the Scottish glen.</div>
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There never was a fairer thing<br />
All Scotland's glens and mountains through.<br />
The siller <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gowan?s=t" target="_blank">gowans</a> of the Spring,<br />
<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/besprent?s=t" target="_blank">Besprent</a> with pearls of mountain dew,<br />
The maiden blush upon the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brere" target="_blank">brere</a>,<br />
Far distant from the haunts of men,<br />
Are nothing half so sweet or dear<br />
As Phoebe of the Scottish glen.</div>
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How handsome is her naked foot,<br />
Moist with the pearls of Summer dew:<br />
The <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/siller?s=ts" target="_blank">siller</a> daisy's nothing to 't,<br />
Nor hawthorn flowers so white to view,<br />
She's sweeter than the blooming <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brere" target="_blank">brere</a>,<br />
That blossoms far away from men:<br />
No flower in Scotland's half so dear<br />
As Phoebe of the Scottish glen.</div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-54560379681545540062020-07-11T07:00:00.000-04:002020-07-11T07:00:03.620-04:00Mother Night<br />
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Listen & Watch:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkChY-p_fS4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Mother Night</a></span></h2>
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by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-weldon-johnson" target="_blank">James Weldon Johnson</a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternities before the first-born day,
Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame,
Calm Night, the everlasting and the same,
A brooding mother over chaos lay.
And whirling suns shall blaze and then decay,
Shall run their fiery courses and then claim
The haven of the darkness whence they came;
Back to Nirvanic peace shall grope their way. </span><br />
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So when my feeble sun of life burns out,
And sounded is the hour for my long sleep,
I shall, full weary of the feverish light,
Welcome the darkness without fear or doubt,
And heavy-lidded, I shall softly creep
Into the quiet bosom of the Night.</span>Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-357623057750867842020-06-30T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-30T07:00:06.448-04:00The Meditation of the Old Fisherman<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/30_The%20Meditation%20of%20the%20Old%20Fisherman_Yeats.mp3" target="_blank">The Meditation of the Old Fisherman</a><b> (1:08)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-butler-yeats" target="_blank">William Butler Yeats</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Though you glow and you glance, though you purr and you dart;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the Junes that were warmer than these are, the waves were more gay, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The herring are not in the tides as they were of old; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">My sorrow! for many a creak gave the creel in the cart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">That carried the take to Sligo town to be sold,
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And ah, you proud maiden, you are not so fair when his oar <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Is heard on the water, as they were, the proud and apart, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Who paced in the eve by the nets on the pebbly shore, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-2016538405353209602020-06-29T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-29T07:00:04.301-04:00Star-Swirls<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/29_Star-Swirls_Jeffers.mp3" target="_blank">Star-Swirls</a> (1:24)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robinson-jeffers" target="_blank">Robinson Jeffers</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-89829415429033163472020-06-28T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-28T07:00:14.543-04:00A Bard's Epitaph<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/28_A%20Bard%27s%20Epitaph_Burns.mp3" target="_blank">A Bard's Epitaph</a><b> (1:43)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-burns" target="_blank">Robert Burns</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Owre* fast for thought, owre hot for rule, *over (o’er)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Owre blate* to seek, owre proud to snool˚, *timid ˚cringe, cower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Let him draw near;
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And owre this grassy heap sing dool*, *grief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And drap a tear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Is there a bard of rustic song,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Who, noteless, steals the crowds among, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">That weekly this area throng,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Wild as the wave, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Survey this grave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Is wisdom's root. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-9566196155062078752020-06-27T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-27T07:00:01.952-04:00The Oven Bird<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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(Oven bird: <span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Seiurus aurocapilla)</span></div>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost" target="_blank">Robert Frost</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> He says that leaves are old and that for flowers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> He says the early petal-fall is past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> And comes that other fall we name the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> He says the highway dust is over all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> The bird would cease and be as other birds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> But that he knows in singing not to sing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> The question that he frames in all but words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Is what to make of a diminished thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-14235812142319692202020-06-26T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-26T07:00:05.491-04:00The God Called Poetry<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/26_The%20God%20Called%20Poetry_Graves.mp3" target="_blank">The God Called Poetry</a><b> (3:16)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-graves" target="_blank">Robert Graves</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Now I begin to know at last,<o:p></o:p></div>
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These nights when I sit down to rhyme,<o:p></o:p></div>
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The form and measure of that vast<o:p></o:p></div>
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God we call Poetry, he who stoops<o:p></o:p></div>
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And leaps me through his paper hoops<o:p></o:p></div>
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A little higher every time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tempts me to think I'll grow a proper<o:p></o:p></div>
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Singing cricket or grass-hopper<o:p></o:p></div>
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Making prodigious jumps in air<o:p></o:p></div>
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While shaken crowds about me stare<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aghast, and I sing, growing bolder<o:p></o:p></div>
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To fly up on my master's shoulder<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rustling the thick strands of his hair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is older than the seas,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Older than the plains and hills,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And older than the light that spills<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the sun's hot wheel on these.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He wakes the gale that tears your trees,<o:p></o:p></div>
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He sings to you from window sills.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At you he roars, or he will coo,<o:p></o:p></div>
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He shouts and screams when hell is hot,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Riding on the shell and shot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He smites you down, he succours you,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And where you seek him, he is not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To-day I see he has two heads<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like Janus--calm, benignant, this;<o:p></o:p></div>
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That, grim and scowling: his beard spreads<o:p></o:p></div>
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From chin to chin" this god has power<o:p></o:p></div>
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Immeasurable at every hour:<o:p></o:p></div>
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He first taught lovers how to kiss,<o:p></o:p></div>
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He brings down sunshine after shower,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thunder and hate are his also,<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is YES and he is NO.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The black beard spoke and said to me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Human frailty though you be,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet shout and crack your whip, be harsh!<o:p></o:p></div>
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They'll obey you in the end:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hill and field, river and marsh<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shall obey you, hop and skip<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the terrour of your whip,<o:p></o:p></div>
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To your gales of anger bend."<o:p></o:p></div>
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The pale beard spoke and said in turn<o:p></o:p></div>
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"True: a prize goes to the stern,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But sing and laugh and easily run<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the wide airs of my plain,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bathe in my waters, drink my sun,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And draw my creatures with soft song;<o:p></o:p></div>
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They shall follow you along<o:p></o:p></div>
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Graciously with no doubt or pain."</div>
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Then speaking from his double head<o:p></o:p></div>
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The glorious fearful monster said<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I am YES and I am NO,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black as pitch and white as snow,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love me, hate me, reconcile<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hate with love, perfect with vile,<o:p></o:p></div>
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So equal justice shall be done<o:p></o:p></div>
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And life shared between moon and sun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nature for you shall curse or smile:<o:p></o:p></div>
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A poet you shall be, my son.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-79773802480276199782020-06-25T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-19T13:15:22.443-04:00Wisdom<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/25_Wisdom_Teasdale.mp3" target="_blank">Wisdom</a> (:47)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sara-teasdale" target="_blank">Sara Teasdale </a></b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> It was a night of early spring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Around us shadows and the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Listened for what was never spoken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Though half a score of years are gone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Spring comes as sharply now as then--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> It would be done the same again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> It was a spring that never came;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> But we have lived enough to know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> That what we never have, remains;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> It is the things we have that go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-82148305617137620312020-06-24T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-24T07:00:02.956-04:00I Would I Were a Careless Child<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/24_I%20Would%20I%20Were%20a%20Careless%20Child_Byron.mp3" target="_blank">I Would I Were a Careless Child</a> (3:22)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron" target="_blank">George Gordon, Lord Byron</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I would I were a careless child,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Still dwelling in my Highland cave,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Or roaming through the dusky wild,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Or bounding o’er the dark blue wave;
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The cumbrous pomp of Saxon pride
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Accords not with the freeborn soul,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Which loves the mountain’s craggy side,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And seeks the rocks where billows roll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Fortune! take back these cultured lands,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Take back this name of splendid sound!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I hate the touch of servile hands,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I hate the slaves that cringe around.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Place me among the rocks I love,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Which sound to Ocean’s wildest roar;
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I ask but this – again to rove
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Through scenes my youth hath known before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Few are my years, and yet I feel
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The world was ne’er designed for me:
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Ah! why do dark’ning shades conceal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The hour when man must cease to be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Once I beheld a splendid dream,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">A visionary scene of bliss:
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Truth! – wherefore did thy hated beam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Awake me to a world like this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I loved – but those I loved are gone;
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Had friends – my early friends are fled:
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">How cheerless feels the heart alone,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">When all its former hopes are dead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Though gay companions o’er the bowl
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Dispel awhile the sense of ill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Though pleasure stirs the maddening soul,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The heart – the heart – is lonely still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">How dull! to hear the voice of those
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Whom rank or chance, whom wealth or power,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Have made, though neither friends nor foes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Associates of the festive hour.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Give me again a faithful few,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In years and feelings still the same,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Where boist’rous joy is but a name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And woman, lovely woman! thou,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My hope, my comforter, my all!
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">How cold must be my bosom now,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When e’en thy smiles begin to pall!
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Without a sigh would I resign
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">This busy scene of splendid woe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To make that calm contentment mine,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Which virtue know, or seems to know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Fain would I fly the haunts of men –
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I seek to shun, not hate mankind;
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">My breast requires the sullen glen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Whose gloom may suit a darken’d mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oh! that to me the wings were given
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Which bear the turtle to her nest!
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Then would I cleave the vault of heaven,
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-27297827532786535242020-06-23T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-23T07:00:04.301-04:00Memory<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/23_Memory_Clare.mp3" target="_blank">Memory</a><b> (:58)</b></h2>
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by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-clare" target="_blank">John Clare</a><b> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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I would not that my memory all should die,<br />
And pass away with every common lot:<br />
I would not that my humble dust should lie<br />
In quite a strange and unfrequented spot,<br />
By all unheeded and by all forgot,<br />
With nothing save the heedless winds to sigh,<br />
And nothing but the dewy morn to weep<br />
About my grave, far hid from the world's eye:<br />
I fain would have some friend to wander nigh<br />
And find a path to where my ashes sleep—<br />
Not the cold heart that merely passes by,<br />
To read who lies beneath, but such as keep<br />
Past memories warm with deeds of other years,<br />
And pay to friendship some few friendly tears.</div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-11188570588191471742020-06-22T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-22T07:00:09.076-04:00The Old Man's Funeral<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/22_The%20Old%20Man%27s%20Funeral_Bryant.mp3" target="_blank">The Old Man's Funeral</a><b> (2:57)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-cullen-bryant" target="_blank">William Cullen Bryant </a></b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">A record of the cares of many a year;— <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Cares that were ended and forgotten now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And there was sadness round, and faces bowed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And woman's tears fell fast, and children wailed aloud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Then rose another hoary man and said,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In faltering accents, to that weeping train: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Ye are not sad to see the gathered grain, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Nor when their mellow fruit the orchards cast,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Nor when the yellow woods let fall the ripened mast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">His glorious course, rejoicing earth and sky, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">In the soft evening, when the winds are stilled, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Sinks where his islands of refreshment lie,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And leaves the smile of his departure, spread
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">O'er the warm-colored heaven and ruddy mountain head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The bound of man's appointed years, at last, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Serenely to his final rest has passed; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">While the soft memory of his virtues, yet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Marked with some act of goodness every day; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Faded his late declining years away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">"That life was happy; every day he gave <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Thanks for the fair existence that was his; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">For a sick fancy made him not her slave, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">No chronic tortures racked his aged limb,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Nor can I deem that Nature did him wrong, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-23672891991490340422020-06-21T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-21T07:00:10.274-04:00Song<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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Cupid by Nikolai Argunov<br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/21_Song_Suckling.mp3" target="_blank">Song</a></span><b> (1:41)</b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sir-john-suckling" target="_blank">Sir John Suckling</a></span><b> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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The crafty boy that full oft essay’d<o:p></o:p></div>
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To pierce my stubborn and resisting breast,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But still the bluntness of his darts betrayed,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Resolv’d at last of setting up his rest.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Either my wild unruly heart to tame,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or quit his godhead, and his bow disclaim.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So all his lovely looks, his pleasing fires,<o:p></o:p></div>
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All his sweet motions, all his taking smiles,<o:p></o:p></div>
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All that awakes, all that inflames desires,<o:p></o:p></div>
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All that by sweet commands, all that beguiles,<o:p></o:p></div>
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He does into one pair of eyes convey,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And there begs leave that he himself may stay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And there he brings me, where his ambush lay,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Secure and careless, to a stranger land;<o:p></o:p></div>
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And never warning me – which was foul play –<o:p></o:p></div>
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Does make me close by all this beauty stand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where first struck dead, I did at last recover,<o:p></o:p></div>
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To know that I might only live to love her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I’ll be sworn I do, and do confess,<o:p></o:p></div>
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The blind lad’s power, whilst he inhabits there;<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I’ll be even with him, nevertheless,<o:p></o:p></div>
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If e’er I chance to meet with him elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If other eyes invite the boy to tarry,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll fly to hers as to a sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-78882084288457849912020-06-20T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-20T07:00:00.475-04:00The Forgeries of Jealousy<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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(Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Vic Theatre in London in 1937)<br />
Today, June 20, 2020 is Midsummer Day.<br />
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Listen to:</div>
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/20_The%20Forgeries%20of%20Jealousy_Shakespeare.mp3" target="_blank">The Forgeries of Jealousy</a> (2:39)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-shakespeare" target="_blank">William Shakespeare</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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from <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream, </i>Act II, scene i</div>
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Oberon, King of the Fairies, is brawling with his queen, Titania. He accuses her of being unfaithful to him with Theseus. Titania responds:</div>
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These are the forgeries of jealousy:</div>
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And never, since the middle summer's spring,</div>
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Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,</div>
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By paved fountain or by rushy brook,</div>
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Or in the beachéd margent of the sea,</div>
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To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,</div>
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But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.</div>
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Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,</div>
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As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea</div>
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Contagious fogs; which falling in the land</div>
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Have every pelting river made so proud</div>
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That they have overborne their continents:</div>
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The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,</div>
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The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn</div>
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Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;</div>
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The fold stands empty in the drowned field,</div>
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And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;</div>
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The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,</div>
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And the quaint mazes in the wanton green</div>
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For lack of tread are undistinguishable:</div>
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The human mortals want their winter here;</div>
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No night is now with hymn or carol blest:</div>
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Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,</div>
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Pale in her anger, washes all the air,</div>
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That rheumatic diseases do abound:</div>
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And thorough this distemperature we see</div>
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The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts</div>
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Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,</div>
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And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown</div>
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An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds</div>
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Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,</div>
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The childing autumn, angry winter, change</div>
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Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,</div>
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By their increase, now knows not which is which:</div>
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And this same progeny of evils comes</div>
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From our debate, from our dissension;</div>
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We are their parents and original.</div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-5535327783476907292020-06-19T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-19T07:00:05.326-04:00The Panther<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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By <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rainer-maria-rilke" target="_blank">Rainer Maria Rilke</a></h3>
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His weary glance, from passing by the bars, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;<o:p></o:p></div>
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It seems to him there are a thousand bars <o:p></o:p></div>
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And out beyond those bars the empty air.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The pad of his strong feet, that ceaseless sound <o:p></o:p></div>
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Of supple tread behind the iron bands,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is like a dance of strength circling around, <o:p></o:p></div>
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While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But there are times the pupils of his eyes <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dilate, the strong limbs stand alert, apart, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tense with the flood of visions that arise <o:p></o:p></div>
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Only to sink and die within his heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-79474624796040410192020-06-18T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-18T07:00:14.313-04:00Shelley's Skylark<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/18_Shelley%27s%20Skylark_Hardy.mp3" target="_blank">Shelley's Skylark</a></span><b> (1:44)</b></h2>
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<i>The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March, 1887</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Somewhere afield here something lies<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Earth’s oblivious eyeless trust<o:p></o:p></div>
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That moved a poet to prophecies—<o:p></o:p></div>
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A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And made immortal through times to be;—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though it only lived like another bird,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And knew not its immortality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lived its meek life; then, one day, fell—<o:p></o:p></div>
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A little ball of feather and bone;<o:p></o:p></div>
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And how it perished, when piped farewell,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And where it wastes, are alike unknown.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe it rests in the loam I view,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe it throbs in a myrtle’s green,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go find it, faeries, go and find<o:p></o:p></div>
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That tiny pinch of priceless dust,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And bring a casket silver-lined,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And framed of gold that gems encrust;<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we will lay it safe therein,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And consecrate it to endless time;<o:p></o:p></div>
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For it inspired a bard to win<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-16210659739382025272020-06-17T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-17T07:00:07.297-04:00On the Cliffs, Newport<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/17_On%20the%20Cliffs%2C%20Newport_Seeger.mp3" target="_blank">On the Cliffs, Newport</a><b> (1:18)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alan-seeger" target="_blank">Alan Seeger </a></b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er <o:p></o:p></div>
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Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom <o:p></o:p></div>
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A savor steals from linden trees in bloom<o:p></o:p></div>
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And gardens ranged at many a palace door. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Proud walls rise here, and, where the moonbeams pour <o:p></o:p></div>
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Their pale enchantment down the dim coast-line, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Terrace and lawn, trim hedge and flowering vine, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Crown with fair culture all the sounding shore. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How sweet, to such a place, on such a night, <o:p></o:p></div>
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From halls with beauty and festival a-glare,<o:p></o:p></div>
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To come distract and, stretched on the cool turf, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yield to some fond, improbable delight,<o:p></o:p></div>
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While the moon, reddening, sinks, and all the air <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sighs with the muffled tumult of the surf! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-4587995422375151542020-06-16T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-16T07:00:03.062-04:00Sympathy<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/16_Sympathy_Dunbar.mp3" target="_blank">Sympathy</a> (1:28)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paul-laurence-dunbar" target="_blank">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the river flows like a stream of glass;<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know what the caged bird feels!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know why the caged bird beats his wing<o:p></o:p></div>
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Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;<o:p></o:p></div>
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For he must fly back to his perch and cling<o:p></o:p></div>
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When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;<o:p></o:p></div>
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And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars<o:p></o:p></div>
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And they pulse again with a keener sting--<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know why he beats his wing!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--<o:p></o:p></div>
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When he beats his bars and he would be free;<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is not a carol of joy or glee,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,<o:p></o:p></div>
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But a plea, / that upward to Heaven he flings--<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know why the caged bird sings!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-38801222290333938542020-06-15T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-15T07:00:01.618-04:00She Lay All Naked<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/15_She%20Lay%20All%20Naked_Anonymous.mp3" target="_blank">She Lay All Naked</a> (2:08)</b></h2>
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<b>by Anonymous </b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Millions of kisses crown, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Which ripe and uncropped dangle there, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But pox upon’t ’twas but a dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-49307072073046310122020-06-14T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-14T07:00:07.909-04:00A Mocking-Bird<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/14_A%20Mockingbird_Bynner.mp3" target="_blank">A Mocking-Bird</a> (:45)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/witter-bynner" target="_blank">Witter Bynner </a></b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The whisper of a multitude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Of happy wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Is round him, a returning brood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Though heaven be not for them or him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Of paradise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-45786063223976740072020-06-13T09:00:00.000-04:002020-06-13T09:00:03.774-04:00Reconciliation<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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Listen to:</div>
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Reconciliation<b> (:59)</b></h2>
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by William Butler Yeats<b> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1" style="font-weight: normal;">William Butler Yeats was born on this day in 1865</span></h4>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Some may have blamed you that you took away<br />
The verses that could move them on the day<br />
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind </div>
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With lightning you went from me, and I could find </div>
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Nothing to make a song about but kings,<br />
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things<br />
That were like memories of you—but now<br />
We’ll out, for the world lives as long ago;<br />
And while we’re in our laughing, weeping fit,<br />
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.<br />
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,<br />
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.</div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-3312620290830350582020-06-12T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-12T07:00:13.253-04:00The Poet's Possession<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/12_The%20Poet%27s%20Possession_Lampman.mp3" target="_blank">The Poet's Possession</a></span><b> (:39)</b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Lampman" target="_blank">Archibald Lampman</a></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Lampman" target="_blank"> </a></b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"> This earth is only thine; for after thee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-3285115566407640442020-06-11T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-11T07:00:01.861-04:00The Rain<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/11_The%20Rain_Davies.mp3" target="_blank">The Rain</a> (:42)</b></h2>
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<b><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-h-davies" target="_blank">William H. Davies</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-49992194469457179062020-06-10T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-10T07:00:03.366-04:00The Dandelion<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/10_The%20Dandelion_Lindsay.mp3" target="_blank">The Dandelion</a> (:46)</b></h2>
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<b><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vachel-lindsay" target="_blank">Vachel Lindsay</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">O dandelion, rich and haughty,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">You have no humble hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I like to see you bring a troop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">To beat the blue-grass spears,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Your yellow heads are cut away,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">It seems your reign is o'er.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert M. Gonzalez, Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12824190494534263763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192030473635671952.post-56919042052413177712020-06-09T07:00:00.000-04:002020-06-09T07:00:05.155-04:00Tell-Tale<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://archive.org/download/a-june-jubilee-of-poetry-2020/09_Tell-Tale_Herford.mp3" target="_blank">Tell-Tale</a> (1:06)</b></h2>
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<b>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Herford" target="_blank">Oliver Herford</a> </b></h3>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://reverberance.org/?page_id=71">performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode</a></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Lily whispered to the Rose:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"The Tulip's fearfully stuck up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">She was a golden altar-cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">There's method in her boldness, too;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">To make herself so saintly white?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Said Tulip to the Lily white:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"About the Rose—what do you think?—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Her color? Should you say it's quite—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">"Natural!" the Lily cried. "Good Saints!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Why, everybody knows she paints!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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