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Program for the Third Week of Cycle Fifteen of Part II: May 24 - May 30,  2004

FIFTEEN LYRICAL POEMS

Color Codes (birth-and-death years & timings):

Blue = Newly recorded in Part II 
May 1, 2004  to April 30, 2006

Red = Replay from Part I
May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2004

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The first five canticles of The Song of Solomon (KJV) (1611) are deferred to next week for final post-edit.

Mon May 24 Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: And Death Shall Have No Dominion [1:24]
Ezra Pound: [1885-1972] An Immortality [0:23]
Tue May 25 Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night [1:12]
Walt Whitman [1819-1892]: A Noiseless Patient Spider [0:46]
Wed May 26 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-1882]: Hymn to the Night [1:09]
Dylan Thomas
[1914-1953]: 
In My Craft or Sullen Art [0:44]
Thu May 27 Elizabeth Barrett Browning [1806-1861]: Sonnet - Comfort [0:51]
Edna St. Vincent Millay
[1882-1950]: Never May The Fruit Be Plucked [0:40]
Fri  May 28 Robert Graves [1895-1985]: Sorley's Weather [0:42]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
 [1792-1822]:  Music When Soft Voices Die [0:26]
Emily Dickinson [1830-1886]: Parting [0:22]
Sat May 29 Robert Graves [1895-1985]: Warning to Children [1:25] 
Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]: Politics [0:27]
Sun May 30 Robert Graves [1895-1985]: To Lucasta, on Going to the War, Again [1:05]
Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]: When You are Old [0:44]
 

Program for the Second Week of Cycle Fifteen of Part II: May 17 - May 23,  2004

 TWENTY TWO LYRICAL POEMS

Color Codes (birth-and-death years & timings):

Blue = Newly recorded in Part II 
May 1, 2004  to April 30, 2006

Red = Replay from Part I
May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2004

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Mon May 17 Thomas Hardy [1840-1928]: A Broken Appointment [0:52]
Wm. Shakespeare
[1564–1616]: Sonnet - Let me not to the marriage of true minds . . . [0:46][Note]
John Dryden [1631-1700]: Song for Saint Cecilia's Day [2:33]
Tue May 18 Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? [0:48]
John Keats [1795-1821]:  On First Looking into Chapman's Homer [0:55]
Charles Kingsley [1819-1875]: Young and Old [0:35]
Merlin J. Pendragon [1965- ]: The Beat [1:22]
Wed May 19 Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet - Since brass nor stone. . . [0:51
Christopher Marlowe [1564-1593]: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [1:15]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti [1828-1882]: Sonnet: Heart's Hope [0:51]
Thu May 20 Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet - When in the chronicle of wasted time. . . [0:45]
Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet No. 2 - When forty winters. . . [0:50]
W. H. Auden [1907-1973]: In Memory of W. B. Yeats [3:27]
W. H. Auden [1907-1973]: Musee des Beaux Arts [1:14]
Fri  May 21 Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . . [0:48]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1834]: Kubla Khan [2:32]
Theodore Roethke: [1908-1963] I Knew A Woman Lovely in Her Bones [1:36]
Sarah Teasdale [1884-1933]: The Dreams of My Heart [0:24]
Sat May 22 Hannah Flagg Gould [1789-1865]: A Name in the Sand [0:59]
A. E. Housman [1859-1936]: To an Athlete Dying Young [1:16]
A. E. Housman [1859-1936]:
Loveliest of Trees [0:37]
Sun May 23 John Donne [1573-1631]: Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God [0:53]
Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889]: Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord [0:59]
Wm. Blake [1757-1827]:  Ah! Sunflower! [0:29]
 

Program for the First Week of Cycle Fifteen (Part II begins): May 10 - May 16,  2004

 FIFTEEN LYRICAL POEMS

Color Codes (birth-and-death years & timings):

Blue = Newly recorded in Part II 
May 1, 2004  to April 30, 2006

Red = Replay from Part I
May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2004

Click on the poet's name to go to his / her page.  Click on the name of the poem to listen.  Click on Note for further information.

Mon May 10

John Bunyan [1628-1688]: Upon Time and Eternity [0:17]
Matthew Arnold
: [1822-1888]: Dover Beach [1:44]

Tue May 11 Hanna Flagg Gould [1789-1865]: A Name in the Sand [0:59]
Alfred Lord Tennyson [1809-1883]: Crossing the Bar [0:44]
Wed May 12 Emma Hart Willard [1787-1870]: Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep [1:00]
Wm. Ernest Henley [1849-1903]: Invictus [0:41]
Thu May 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]: Concord Hymn [0:53]
Wm. Butler Yeats [1865-1939]: The Lake Isle of Innesfree [1:10][WRE ver. 3]
Fri  May 14 William Wordsworth [1770-1850]: The Lucy Poems: 2 - She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways [0:30]
John Keats: [1795-1821]: La Belle Dame Sans Merci [1:57]
Sat May 15 James Stephens [1881-1950]: Hate [0:44]
Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889]: I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark [1:03]
Sun May 16 Robert Frost [1874-1963]: To the Thawing Wind [0:37]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[1844-1889]: Pied Beauty [0:45]         
Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889]: God's Grandeur [0:51]

For previous weekly details, click here to go to the archive page of Cycles Thirteen and Fourteen ended May 9, 2004

For previous weekly details, click here to go to the archive page of Cycles Ten, Eleven and Twelve  ended January 4, 2004

For previous weekly details, click here to go to the archive page of Cycles Seven, Eight and Nine ended September 3, 2003

For previous weekly details, click here to go to the archive page of Cycles Four, Five and Six  ended February 26, 2003.

For previous weekly details, click here to go to the archive page of Cycles One, Two and Three ended October 2, 2002.


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WEEKLY POEMS   Consisting of fourteen or more lyrical audio poems in Modern English, recorded by Walter Rufus Eagles in streaming RealMedia audio and updated daily during the school year as early as possible after sundown the night before (Mountain Time, USA)  but no later than 1400 GMT the following day, for optimal convenience of students and teachers in continental USA and in Hawaii.  Click HERE to visit weekly archives of all fourteen cycles (a cycle is seven weeks long) of the first half of the anthology project, 1,001 poems in each half, the last fourteen cycles ending May 1, 2006 (God willing I live that long!) for a grand total of 2,002 poems in twenty eight cycles.  If I should live until May 1, 2010, the project will have doubled to 4,004 poems in fifty six cycles spanning eight years of research, study and recording.  I shall then move on to the recording of fine prose in Modern English, beginning with the Tattler and the Spectator essays as well as those of Charles Lamb, together with selections from The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, and with selections from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee.

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FUTURE NEW WEEKLY POEMS -- NOTES


William Cowper [1731-1800]: Epitaph on a Hare
William Wordsworth [1770-1850]: The Lucy Poems: 1 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
William Wordsworth
[1770-1850]:
The Lucy Poems: 2 - She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways [0:30]
William Wordsworth [1770-1850]: The Lucy Poems: 4 - Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
William Wordsworth [1770-1850]: The Lucy Poems: 5 - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal


King James Bible Translators [1611]: Song of Solomon: Chapter 1: Let him kiss me [2:14]
King James Bible Translators [1611]: Song of Solomon: Chapter 2: I am the rose of Sharon
King James Bible Translators [1611]: Song of Solomon: Chapter 3: By night on my bed I sought him
King James Bible Translators [1611]: Song of Solomon: Chapter 4: Behold, thou art fair, my love
King James Bible Translators [1611]: Song of Solomon: Chapter 5: I am come into my garden
Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet VII - Lo! in the orient when the gracious light 
Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet IX - Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Wm. Shakespeare [1564–1616]: Sonnet X - For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
Siegfried Sassoon [1886-1967]: Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece
Wilfred Owen [1893-1918]: Exposure



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