Short Poetry Collection 142
Various
Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2015.
Two poems of medium length in this collection:
#04 "Copernicus" (13:38) is from the volume "Watchers of the Sky" by Alfred Noyes.
#12 "A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth" (14:12). The original text was published as an eight-page pamphlet. In the surviving copy, the bottoms of the pages have been cropped. A total of three lines are therefore missing, and a further three have been reconstructed from their surviving portions. The html version of the poem shows these reconstructions. This poem has been read using modern English pronunciation. Some words have no modern equivalent, including such words as encensing, entenderment, soote, boote, withouten, inuentions, contrarious, and minnish which is short for dimminish.
Emyspery = hemisphere.
Quayre (quire) = an eight-page printed booklet.
Tene = harm, injury or hurt.
Rother = rudder
The "monk of bery" was John Lydgate of Bury St. Edmunds (c. 1370 - c. 1451) a monk and poet. (1 hr 12 min)
Chapitres
| The Aloe | 0:39 | Lu par Newgatenovelist |
| Alone | 1:18 | Lu par Winston Tharp |
| Bryan of Brittany | 5:22 | Lu par Winston Tharp |
| Copernicus | 13:38 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Easter Day II | 2:07 | Lu par Newgatenovelist |
| Fiddler Jones | 1:55 | Lu par William George |
| Go, Lovely Rose | 1:11 | Lu par Winston Tharp |
| The House That Jack Built | 2:22 | Lu par Phil Schempf |
| How the Leaves Came Down | 1:48 | Lu par Rachel |
| In Possum Land | 0:43 | Lu par Glenn O'Brien |
| Sonnet II from Four Sonnets (I think I should have loved you presently) | 1:41 | Lu par Shakira Searle |
| A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth | 14:12 | Lu par Patricia Booth |
| March Evening | 1:42 | Lu par Shakira Searle |
| Morning-Rains | 0:42 | Lu par Newgatenovelist |
| An Old Master | 4:18 | Lu par Son of the Exiles |
| Rules and Regulations | 1:29 | Lu par Olga Byelova |
| The Sea and the Skylark | 1:35 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| Smokey the Bear Sutra | 5:49 | Lu par Ed Humpal |
| Spring | 1:30 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| The Starlight Night | 1:40 | Lu par Bruce Kachuk |
| Untitled (I had been hungry all the years) | 1:03 | Lu par Leara Morris-Clark |
| 'Urry | 5:02 | Lu par Son of the Exiles |
| Wisdom | 1:11 | Lu par Shakira Searle |