Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
album all those years ago.) And the reading itself was easily the best
of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.
I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
sing it.
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the archives.
On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
archives.
As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested. https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
:)
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the archives.
As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested. https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
:)
On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
album all those years ago.) And the reading itself was easily the best
of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.
I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
sing it.
On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
General-Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
archives.
As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested. https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
:)
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
album all those years ago.)
And the reading itself was easily the best
of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.
I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
sing it.
George J. Dance wrote:
On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html >>>
#pennyspoems
Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.
The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
album all those years ago.)
Was a big fan of the brassy sound of Blood Sweat and Tears back when... even my father enjoyed that music...
And the reading itself was easily the best
of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.
I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
sing it.
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