I am a great Hopkins fan. If you feel moved to record a reading to join the "Poems to Carry in the Blood" project, I won't look carefully at the date stamp that may not read exactly Oct 25th. I'll be putting together the compilation the next couple of days, and I haven't seen a Hopkins poem yet. Join in if you like. :-)
Record yourself reciting your chosen poem in a new post at your Substack publication. Tag me in the post (@tarapenry). Any time in the next few days will do. I’m compiling a post with all participants to publish next Friday.
This poem has been in my life about as long. When I was a very young man, I wrote it out in longhand for a love as elusive to me as Maud Gonne was for Yeats. Great reading.
Oh, this filled me with such longing - "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you," Beautiful, Eleanor. It has the same shimmer as "The Song of Wandering Aengus" -- and no wonder. . . it's Yeats! Thank you.
I know When You Are Old by heart, as well, and tears well up every time I read or recite it, so thanks for that. Another that I love is The Song of Wandering Aengus - I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head, and cut and pealed a hazel wand and hooked a berry to a thread ...
Mmmmm, I saved this one til I finished some student meetings today. I'm so glad to hear you read this in the afternoon of my day, this poem that teeters between youth and age, morning and afternoon. I love the way you deliver this with such soft simplicity. This is Yeats Unplugged for a small club, after hours. Beautiful!
These two lines give me gooseflesh every time...
"But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;"
Beautifully read Eleanor.
Same, Susie x
Love that.
I think anything by GMHopkins (apart from the death of the deutschland)
I am a great Hopkins fan. If you feel moved to record a reading to join the "Poems to Carry in the Blood" project, I won't look carefully at the date stamp that may not read exactly Oct 25th. I'll be putting together the compilation the next couple of days, and I haven't seen a Hopkins poem yet. Join in if you like. :-)
How do I do this (submit the recording and where to)? Or do I just leave it here?
Record yourself reciting your chosen poem in a new post at your Substack publication. Tag me in the post (@tarapenry). Any time in the next few days will do. I’m compiling a post with all participants to publish next Friday.
This post explains how and why: https://open.substack.com/pub/tarapenry/p/memorizing-poems?r=1mk0zn&utm_medium=ios .
It’s OK, I’ve found the instructions in your Substack. And there is a poem there now by GMH
This poem has been in my life about as long. When I was a very young man, I wrote it out in longhand for a love as elusive to me as Maud Gonne was for Yeats. Great reading.
Reading it feels like bowing at the altar of greatness. That I could be allowed those words on my lips. Wow.
Oh, this filled me with such longing - "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you," Beautiful, Eleanor. It has the same shimmer as "The Song of Wandering Aengus" -- and no wonder. . . it's Yeats! Thank you.
I know When You Are Old by heart, as well, and tears well up every time I read or recite it, so thanks for that. Another that I love is The Song of Wandering Aengus - I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head, and cut and pealed a hazel wand and hooked a berry to a thread ...
beautiful…
Mmmmm, I saved this one til I finished some student meetings today. I'm so glad to hear you read this in the afternoon of my day, this poem that teeters between youth and age, morning and afternoon. I love the way you deliver this with such soft simplicity. This is Yeats Unplugged for a small club, after hours. Beautiful!
Thanks so much for the inspiration, the invitation to do this. I fall in love anew every time I return to Yeats.
Beautiful