Short Poetry Collection 142
Various
Read by 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)
Chapters
| The Aloe | 0:39 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| Alone | 1:18 | Read by Winston Tharp |
| Bryan of Brittany | 5:22 | Read by Winston Tharp |
| Copernicus | 13:38 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Easter Day II | 2:07 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| Fiddler Jones | 1:55 | Read by William George |
| Go, Lovely Rose | 1:11 | Read by Winston Tharp |
| The House That Jack Built | 2:22 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| How the Leaves Came Down | 1:48 | Read by Rachel |
| In Possum Land | 0:43 | Read by Glenn O'Brien |
| Sonnet II from Four Sonnets (I think I should have loved you presently) | 1:41 | Read by Shakira Searle |
| A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth | 14:12 | Read by Patricia Booth |
| March Evening | 1:42 | Read by Shakira Searle |
| Morning-Rains | 0:42 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| An Old Master | 4:18 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Rules and Regulations | 1:29 | Read by Olga Byelova |
| The Sea and the Skylark | 1:35 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Smokey the Bear Sutra | 5:49 | Read by Ed Humpal |
| Spring | 1:30 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| The Starlight Night | 1:40 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Untitled (I had been hungry all the years) | 1:03 | Read by Leara Morris-Clark |
| 'Urry | 5:02 | Read by Son of the Exiles |
| Wisdom | 1:11 | Read by Shakira Searle |