We’ve got an audio of Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman , although our version is a little different than you will find on most sites. We got it out of a book from 1912.
Honestly, I am not really looking for these little differences, it’s more like they jump out at me when I’m […]
Added at least half a dozen poems in the last week that struck my fancy, two have audio readings:
Why So Pale and Wan. First learned this poem in high school in English lit and I’ve always liked its very amusing and practical observations on the topic of unrequited love. “Will when looking well […]
So we’ll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart still be as loving,
And the moon still be as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul outwears the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we’ll go […]
We have an enormous soft spot in our hearts for Caribbean music and, particularly, the Calypso album by Harry Belafonte. Matilda isn’t on that album, but here’s an awesome live performance from youtube. So worth watching not only for Harry, but I always love the girls’ dresses and the backup singers really get […]