Great Posting Harvey. I've known this poem off by heart for years and used to recite it to my lads when they were toddlers, along with MaCavity and Matilda and the Jabberwocky and Albert and the Lion and Tyger Tyger and great lengths of Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest..... Did you know the 'Waterboys' did a version of 'The Stolen Child' on one of their early albums: Fisherman's Blues- just found the Ytube link
@CorporalNym I am glad you like it. I have to thank you for showing me this poem, I'm new to Yeats and this is indeed a great poem.
Speaking about Midsummer Night Dream. I'm getting a tattoo with my favourite quote of the play.
"Love, looks not with the eyes but with the mind/ And therefore winged cupid is painted blind" With a female cupid/ Angel shooting arrows through an anatomical heart. I can't wait.
@AllyMind5Star Thanks I will. There is also a recording I used to have sung by a woman to the accompaniment of a harp- but I can't remember her name and I lost the track! Too and fro we leap..... I note that the Waterboys have recently released a cd of the great WB;s poems set to music - I haven't heard it yet. I must get it. Many thanks and regards. Harvey if you read -this I enjoyed the recent sonnet and how're the Tatoos going?
Found it immediately. Fabulous arrangement -you get the feeling you are in those woods
Pity the sound on the vid on Ytube was distorted and over recorded otherwise I'd have recorded it straight from the vid and made an MP3 of it. Many thanks...
@AllyMind5Star Thanks to you I just Ytubed 'The Stolen Child' and found My harpist. Its Loreena McKennit
watch?v=Em70flL8CWw. Now I have it back. I used to play and recite this to our lads when they were infants. I love this version. And now I have a whole host of her stuff to explore on Ytube. Many thanks- I hope you enjoy her version
Great Posting Harvey. I've known this poem off by heart for years and used to recite it to my lads when they were toddlers, along with MaCavity and Matilda and the Jabberwocky and Albert and the Lion and Tyger Tyger and great lengths of Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest..... Did you know the 'Waterboys' did a version of 'The Stolen Child' on one of their early albums: Fisherman's Blues- just found the Ytube link
com/watch?v=Jg-oJKYIinQ
Nice one
CorporalNym 10 months ago
@CorporalNym I am glad you like it. I have to thank you for showing me this poem, I'm new to Yeats and this is indeed a great poem.
Speaking about Midsummer Night Dream. I'm getting a tattoo with my favourite quote of the play.
"Love, looks not with the eyes but with the mind/ And therefore winged cupid is painted blind" With a female cupid/ Angel shooting arrows through an anatomical heart. I can't wait.
thanks for the link I will give it a listen.
29harveydinio 10 months ago
@CorporalNym If you like this recitement, you might like the poem set to music! Eric Whitacre notated a song set to this poem. Look it up on YouTube.
AllyMind5Star 4 months ago
@AllyMind5Star Thanks I will. There is also a recording I used to have sung by a woman to the accompaniment of a harp- but I can't remember her name and I lost the track! Too and fro we leap..... I note that the Waterboys have recently released a cd of the great WB;s poems set to music - I haven't heard it yet. I must get it. Many thanks and regards. Harvey if you read -this I enjoyed the recent sonnet and how're the Tatoos going?
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CorporalNym 4 months ago
@AllyMind5Star
Found it immediately. Fabulous arrangement -you get the feeling you are in those woods
Pity the sound on the vid on Ytube was distorted and over recorded otherwise I'd have recorded it straight from the vid and made an MP3 of it. Many thanks...
....We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Sublime!
CorporalNym 4 months ago
@AllyMind5Star Thanks to you I just Ytubed 'The Stolen Child' and found My harpist. Its Loreena McKennit
watch?v=Em70flL8CWw. Now I have it back. I used to play and recite this to our lads when they were infants. I love this version. And now I have a whole host of her stuff to explore on Ytube. Many thanks- I hope you enjoy her version
regards
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CorporalNym 4 months ago