"True or False" by Adelaide Anne Procter (poetry reading)

[ThePublicPolemic]

Beautiful. Though, you said "choose" instead of "chose" and "extracting" rather than "exacting". I only noticed the third time I listened, however.

[PaganGlade]

Thank you :) ~PaganGlade~

[rappamarfil]

all the pre-raphaelite canvasses SpokenVerse shows per stanza match the way things are going in this Victorian parlor which is for play and more than with just words . " En garde ! "

[polymath7]

It's funny how these things sometimes come to mind. I was turning this poem over in my mind and it suddenly occurred to me that I'd incorrectly written"154th sonnet" the day before. I kicked myself and came back to this board.

[polymath7]

Goddammit, I meant sonnet 116. SpokenVerse, you approved the comment, why didn't you correct me?

(I'm sure you spotted the error unless you were as distractedly careless as I was)

[hswatnik]

very fine-

[chona42]

Love this! Thank you :-)

[BabyHominid]

Very much timely for me. I am off to vacation with a lady candidate, and as the last line says, I will wait and see. :-)

[polymath7]

This reminds me a bit of Shakespeare's 154th sonnet ("Love's not love which alters when it alteration finds...).

[duckpondwithoutducks]

Thanks for sharing this poem - I am someone who likes Victorian chicklit!

Also, I liked the H. Rider Haggard/Rumpole of the Bailey reference!

[SpokenVerse]

@duckpondwithoutducks I like the fact that you recognised it. At least she isn't a member of the tribe who put pots on the heads of strangers...