Short Poetry Collection 142

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"description": "LibriVox recording of Short Poetry Collection 142 by Various.
Read in English by Newgatenovelist; Winston Tharp; Larry Wilson; William George; Phil Schempf; Rachel; Glenn O'Brien; Shakira Searle; Patricia Booth; Son of the Exiles; Olga Byelova; Bruce Kachuk; Ed Humpal; Eileen Tipping; Leara Morris-Clark

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2015:
The Aloe, by Laurence Hope
Alone, by Edgar Allan Poe
Bryan of Brittany, by James Elroy Flecker
Copernicus, by Alfred Noyes
Easter Day II, by Arthur Hugh Clough
Fiddler Jones, by Edgar Lee Masters
Go, Lovely Rose, by Edmund Waller
The House That Jack Built, by Randolph Caldecott
How the Leaves Came Down, by Susan Coolidge
In Possum Land, by Henry Lawson
Sonnet II from Four Sonnets (I think I should have loved you presently), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth, by Stephen Hawes
March Evening, by Amy Lowell
Morning-Rains, by Michael Field
An Old Master, by C. J. Dennis
Rules and Regulations, by Lewis Carroll
The Sea and the Skylark, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Smokey the Bear Sutra, by Gary Snyder
Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Starlight Night, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Untitled (I had been hungry all the years), by Emily Dickinson
'Urry, by C. J. Dennis
Wisdom, by Sara Teasdale

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.

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