I love listening to your voice. The collection you have recorded includes a lot of my favourites and I enjoy listening to them read as they should be. I may not agree with all your opinions on the poems but I can respect them. Thank you and keep up the good work.
@xarahlicious If it isn't read at a conversational pace, then it loses structure and the metre and rhymes don't work. Whern poems meana lot to people, they subvocalise them as slow and full of meaning. But reading them like that doesn't work. If you think it does, then you can read it yourself and post the reading. Otherwise we'll never know how it sounds to you. All the best, Tom
I love listening to your voice. The collection you have recorded includes a lot of my favourites and I enjoy listening to them read as they should be. I may not agree with all your opinions on the poems but I can respect them. Thank you and keep up the good work.
sweeneysdominatrix 4 months ago
The poem is beautiful. I dont like how it was read. So fast. No emotions at all
xarahlicious 7 months ago
@xarahlicious If it isn't read at a conversational pace, then it loses structure and the metre and rhymes don't work. Whern poems meana lot to people, they subvocalise them as slow and full of meaning. But reading them like that doesn't work. If you think it does, then you can read it yourself and post the reading. Otherwise we'll never know how it sounds to you. All the best, Tom
SpokenVerse 7 months ago
A lovely and fantastic poem:) and the recitation is also very good! thank you for sharing.
The1983silence 9 months ago
nice one!!
piatan123 11 months ago
nice one!!!!!!!
piatan123 11 months ago
I cried hearing this. SO BEAUTIFUL! oh bless her for writing such living lines...
mylionette102675 1 year ago
Beautiful
DeltaDrill 1 year ago
I read a book called this before!
Superstargl1995 1 year ago
theres a ad in uk with the reading of this poem. read with such beauty. do you think we can down load it?
funmartin1 2 years ago
you're a missing a "thee" in the line "I love THEE with a passion put to use"
tahnyay 2 years ago 5
Three versions of the line have been published. There's the one you quote and the one I quote - but we're both wrong.
The original 1850 version of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" gives the line as "I love THEE with THE passion put to use";
The most reliable and original source I can find is Great Books and Classics.
Thanks from bringing this to my attention though. I'll check my sources more thoroughly in future.
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SpokenVerse 2 years ago 2