Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry Collection

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Various In Year : 0

Book Language: English

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What is Our Life?
There is a Lady Sweet and Kind
My Love is Like to Ice, Sonnet 30
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
Sonnet 02
Psalm 23
Song
The Glories of our Blood and State
Sonnet 19
The Constant Lover
To His Coy Mistress
On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup
Solitude
A Poison Tree
It is a Beauteous Evening
Kubla Khan
The River of Life
Abou Ben Adhem
The First Kiss of Love
Love's Philosophy
To Autumn
Snowflakes
The Conqueror Worm
Ulysses
The Two Old Bachelors
A Noiseless Patient Spider
In A Library
Jabberwocky
The Windhover
The New Colossus
When I was one-and-twenty
The Road Not Taken
The Great Lover

A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selections from the epics of Homer and Hesiod. The contemporary rhapsode performs the classical poetry of his or her language, culture, and tradition. Any particular collection and arrangement of poems for performance I term a “rhapsody.” In general terms, a rhapsody is an ecstatic expression of feeling and enthusiasm. In music, a rhapsody is an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation. The poems in this rhapsody comprise a number of poems that I have performed in public and known for much of my life as well as several recent additions to my repertory. They are arranged in chronological order from the 16th century to the early 20th century. Some of the poets represented here are Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Frost. (Summary by Bob Gonzalez)