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                                                      WEEKLY POEMS (CYCLES 10, 11 and 12)

Fourteen or more lyrical poems recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles in streaming RealMedia audio and published as early as possible after Sunday evening 1900 PST and before Monday morning 0600 PST for optimal convenience of students and teachers in continental USA and Europe.  

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Program for the Second & Third Weeks of Cycle Twelve: December 22, 2003
 through January 4, 2004 R

[marquee 30 sec.] . . . . . . . . From December 22, 2003 through January 4, 2004, all recordings heard here will be reruns.  The Weekly Poems feature will begin January 5, 2004 on the first day of many schools. Until then, last week's program is repeated . . . . . . . . .

Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Hamlet's Soliloquy  from Hamlet III, i [2:00]
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Caliban's Monologue from The Tempest [0:53]

Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: Poem in October [2:31] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Let me not to the marriage of true minds. . . [0:45] R

Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: Poem on His Birthday [4:15] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Full many a glorious morning have I seen. . . [0:50] R

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]:  The Death of St. Narcissus [2:06] R
Walter Rufus Eagles [1934- ]:  Song for Marilu Part One (Stanzas 1 * 2) [2:50] R

Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: Should Lanterns Shine [1:00] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes. . . [0:49] R

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]:  La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) [1:13] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest. . . [0:57] R

T. S. Eliot [1888-1965]: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [6:44] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Being your slave, what should I do. . ? [0:46] R

Program for the First Week of Cycle Twelve: December 15, 2003 through December 21, 2003

Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Where Is Fancy Bred? [0:27] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Where the Bee Sucks [0:25] R

Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: Come Away, Come Away, Death [0:49] R
William Shakespeare [1564-1616]: The Phoenix and the Turtle [2:28] R

Saint Robert Southwell, S.J. [1561-1595 martyr]: Times go by Turns [1:32] R
Saint Robert Southwell, S.J. [1561-1595 martyr]: A Child My Choice [1:36] R

William Collins [1721-1759]: Fidele [1:11] R
William Collins [1721-1759]: Ode to Simplicity [2:31] R

Alice Meynell [1847-1922]: Maternity [0:28] R
Alice Meynell [1847-1922]: A Song of Derivations [1:11] R
Alice Meynell [1847-1922]: The Garden [0:56] R

Henry Constable [1562-1613]: Sonnet: On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney [0:47] R
Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]: You Spotted Snakes with Double Tongue [1:04] R

Leigh Hunt [1784-1859]: Abou Ben Adhem [1:08] R
Thomas Carlyle [1795-1871]: Fortuna [1:16] R

Program for the Seventh (Final) Week of Cycle Eleven: December 8, 2003 through December 14, 2003

Au Pairs et Hommages: Material for Seven Days' Studies of Fourteen Poets:
a substitution in place of the usual new recordings whilst your reader's voice recovers.

• Christopher Marlowe [1564-1593]: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [1:15] R
  Sir Walter Raleigh [1552-1618]: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd [1:09] R

• Richard Lovelace [1618-1657]: To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair [0:51] R
  Anne Hunter [1742-1821]: My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair [0:46] R

• Ezra Pound [1885-1972]: Envoi [1:05] R
  Edmund Waller [1606-1687]: Go Lovely Rose [0:46] R

• Matthew Arnold [1822-1888]: Shakespeare [0:53] R
  William Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry. . . [0:52] R

• William Wordsworth [1770-1850]:  Milton! Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour [0:49] R
  John Milton [1608-1674]: I did but prompt the Age to quit their clogs. . . [0:54] R

• Amy Lowell [1874-1925]: Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's Poems [1:35] R
  John Keats [1795-1821]: Ode to a Nightingale [4:05] R

• W. H. Auden [1907-1973]: In Memory of W. B. Yeats [3:23] R
  Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]: Sailing to Byzantium [1:33] R

Program for the Sixth Week of Cycle Eleven: December 1, 2003 through December 7, 2003

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• Walter Savage Landor [1775-1864]:  [English]

  • Late Leaves [0:37]

  • Of Clementina [0:49]

  • On an Eclipse of the Moon [0:27]

  • Separation [0:26]

  • Sonnet: To Robert Browning [0:49]

  • Verse [0:29]

  • Finis [0:19]

• Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]:  Lake Isle of Innesfree [later recording by WRE][0:56]

• Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]: Preface [1:03] [temporary recording, to be replaced]

The following poems have not yet been completed because your reader has had a sore throat for several days.  He is in recovery and the poems will be recorded before the week is out.  He recorded the above important statement by Wilfred Owen anyway, Preface, because of its urgency in our time, and this will be re-recorded.

• Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]: [British, KIA WWI]

  • Spells and Incantation

  • Cramped in that Funnelled Hole

  • As Bronze may be much Beautified

  • The Roads Also

• Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]:  [English]

  • Sonnet, TBA

Program for the Fifth Week of Cycle Eleven: November 24, 2003 through November 30, 2003

• Sir Philip Sidney [1554-1586]: Sonnet from Astrophel & Stella - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!  [1:00]

• Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]:

  • The Sentry [2:09]

  • The Send-off [1:02]

  • Mental Cases [1:43]

  • A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers) [3:51]

  • Has Your Soul Sipped? [1:21]

  • Six o'clock in Princes Street [0:48]

  • I saw his Round Mouth's Crimson [0:36]

  • The Kind Ghosts [0:54]

  • Elegy in April and September (jabbered among the trees) [1:35]

  • Strange Meeting [2:34]

• Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]: Gettysburg Address [2:00]

• Elizabeth I [1533-1603]: When I was Young and Fair [1:13]

• Thomas Ford [1580?-1648]: There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind [1:11]

• William Gray of Reading [?-1557]: The King's Hunt is up [1:01]

• Robert Greene 1560-1592]:  Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content [0:50]

• Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke [1554-1628]: Chorus Sacerdotum from "Mustapha" [1:26]

• [traditional, English Renaissance]: Vexilla Regis Prodeunt [1:50]

• Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]:  [English]

  • Sonnet CXI - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide. . . [0:50]

  • Sonnet CXIII - Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind. . . [0:53]

Program for the Fourth Week of Cycle Eleven: November 17, 2003 through November 23, 2003

• Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]: Apologia pro Poemate Meo [2:00]  [KIA, WWI]  [Britain]

• Wm. Shakespeare ]1564-1616]: Sonnet: Alas, tis true, I have gone here and there [0:52] [English]

• Sir Edward Dyer [1543-1607]: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is [1:39] [English]

• William Blake [1757-1827]: [English] Five Poems:

  • On Another's Sorrow [1:27] from Songs of Experience

  • A Dream [0:48] from Songs of Innocence 

  • Spring [0:45] from Songs of Innocence 

  • Holy Thursday [0:56] from Songs of Innocence 

  • A Cradle Song [1:24] from Songs of Innocence 

• Alexander Pope [1688-1744]: [English]

  • Hymn [1:01] 

  • The Dying Christian to His Soul [1:03]

• Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]: [Irish, English] 

  • Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa [0:55] 

  • Sonnet: Easter Day [0:53]

• C. S. Lewis [1898-1963]: [English] 

  • Footnote to All Prayers [1:27]

  • The Apologist's Evening Prayer [0:49]

Program for the Third Week of Cycle Eleven: November 10, 2003 through November 16, 2003.

• Wm. Blake [1757-1827]: Chapter Of the Gates of Verses from The Gates of Paradise [2:24] [England]

• John Keats [1795-1821]: Ode to Psyche [3:21] [England]

• Emily Dickinson [1830-1886]: Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower [0:42] [USA]

• G. K. Chesterton [1874-1936]: The Wife of Flanders [1:34] [UK] [British War Poets]

• Walter de la Mare [1873 - 1956]: The Fool Rings His Bells [2:40] [UK] [British War Poets]

• Adelaide Crapsey [1878-1914]:   Eight cinquains and an example from Shelley [note]  [USA]

  • Part One (Triad, Dirge & Lonely Death) [1:22]

  • Part Two (November Night, Moon Shadows & The Guarded Wound) [0:50]

  • Part Three (Amaze, The Warning & an example from Shelley's To a Skylark) [1:00]

• Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]: Adelaide Crapsey from Cornhuskers 1918 [USA] [note]

• Oscar Wilde [1854-1900] [Ireland, Britain]:

  • Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel [0:53]

  • Requiescat  [0:45]

  • Sonnet: Madonna Mia [0:54]

• Henry Constable [1562-1613]: Damelus' Song to Diaphenia [0:54] [England]

• Thomas Campion [1567-1620]: When to Her Lute Corinna Sings [0:40] [England]

• Thomas Dekker [1570?-1632]: The Merry Month of May [1:00] [England]

Program for the Second Week of Cycle Eleven: November 3, 2003 through November 9, 2003.

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• Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889] [Britain]:

  • 'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go' [1:08]

  • 'Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail' [0:28]

  • 'Repeat that, repeat' [0:27]

  • Sonnet: To R. B. [0:59]

  • Sonnet: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez [1:02]

  • Sonnet: No worst, there is none.  Pitched past pitch of grief [1:09]

  • The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo [4:07]

  • Sonnet: The Candle Indoors [1:02]

  • Heaven--Haven [0:30]

  • Sonnet: The Starlight Night [1:09]

  • Sonnet: Spring [1:09]

  • Sonnet: The Lantern out of Doors [1:08]

  • Sonnet: Hurrahing in Harvest [1:09]

  • Binsey Poplars [1:14]

  • Duns Scotus's Oxford [1:03]

Program for the First Week of Cycle Eleven: October 27, 2003 through November 2, 2003.

• Charles Hamilton Sorley [1895-1915]: Two Sonnets [1:42] [UK] [KIA, WWI]

• Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931]: [USA]

  • Crickets on a Strike [0:28]

  • Euclid [0:28]

• Edna St. Vincent Millay [1882-1950]: [USA]

  • Mindful of You [0:55]

  • Not in This Chamber Only at My Birth [0:54]

• Moray Dalton [?-?]: Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam) [0:30] [UK]

• Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1969]: These are the Clouds of Green Helmet (1910) [0:55] [Ireland]

Program for the Seventh (Last) Week of Cycle Ten: October 20, 2003 through October 26, 2003.

• Walter Rufus Eagles [1934- ]: [USA, Southern]

  • Allemande for a Student Jazz Musician Recently Turned Farmer [1959] [0:59]

  • Annunciation of Alexander [1958] [0:30] from a Plutarch anecdote

  • Dialogue with Tape and Memory [1976] [2:15] for Randy Wallace, singer / songwriter

  • Elegy for the Singing Nun [1985] [1:50] for Sister Sourire, singer / songwriter, upon learning of her suicide

  • Forces of the Oak [1984] [1:43]

  • Gloria in Excelsis [1977] [0:43] for Nobuyuki Shirota [note]

  • Gulley Jimson's Visionary Wall [1959] [1:45] a reflection on The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary

  • Her First Poem: For Jan at Twenty One  [1985] [0:39] [note]

  • His Epitaph [1977] [1:06] for my old good friend, John Louis Miller

  • May Time Poem for Mary [1983] [1:05]

  • Midnight Toccata [1959] [0:16]

  • Poem for Marilu on the Occasion of St. Valentine's Day [1985] [1:07]

  • Poem for My Sons on the Occasion of the Falklands Crisis [1982] [1:23] for Randol & David

  • Psalm: De Profundis Clamavi [1984] [1:46] a ride aboard a Los Angeles RTD bus

  • Solar Snapshot [1987] [1:45]

  • Sonnet: Antigonae [1982] [0:52] [note]

  • Sonnet: Clytaemnestra [1982] [0:51]

  • A Still Life of Giacometti's [1969] [0:46]

  • This Ring, Not Gold [1988] [1:08] for my wife, Marilu

  • War Chorus: Reunion That Never Was [2003] [2:33] for Kenneth McReynolds, USMC (killed in Korea 1954)

Program for the Sixth Week of Cycle Ten: October 13, 2003 through October 19, 2003.

• Edwin Arlington Robinson [1869-1935][note]
  • Sonnet: The Altar [0:51]
  • Sonnet: Richard Cory [0:55]
  • Sonnet: The Master and the Slave [0:49]
  • Sonnet: Oh for a Poet [0:54]
  • Sonnet: The Pity of the Leaves [0:55]
  • Sonnet: The Garden [0:48]
  • The Master [2:41]

Program for the Fifth Week of Cycle Ten: October 6, 2003 through October 12, 2003.

• Ezra Pound [1885-1972]:
  • The Garret [0:35]
  • Dance Figure [1:14]
  • Ballad for Gloom [1:11]
  • Further Instructions [1:03]
  • The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter [1:37]
  • Exile's Letter [4:39]
  • [Greek] [0:28]
  • The Garden [0:45]
  • The Choice [0:39]
• William Cartwright [1611-1643]:
  • On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries [0:57]
  • No Platonic Love [1:15]

Program for the Fourth Week of Cycle Ten: September 29, 2003 through October 5, 2003.

• Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]:
  • Handfuls [0:30]
  • Joy [0:32]
  • Killers [1:11]
  • Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard [0:25]
  • The Great Hunt [0:48]
  • The Road and the End [0:46]
  • Under the Harvest Moon [0:35]
  • The Poor [0:53]

Program for the First Fortnight & Following Week of Cycle Ten: September 4, 2003 through September 28, 2003.
(Weekly cycle has been changed to start on Monday, the first day of the school week.