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...her gratitude for all those who have loved her-including, of course, a special debt to her belovèd. The speaker in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 41” from Sonnets from the Portuguese focuses on gratitude for all who have loved her, while hoping that...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? - Read by Sian Phillips How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
This is an exercise in Motion Graphics (Fall 2009) developing kinetic typography and sound mixing skills by animating the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?"
Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Music written and performed by childofthesun32 Photos by childofthesun32 The poem set to the music from another song/tune I did with a melody I haven't used before. The poem: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. I believe this to be copyrighted by me though of course the words belong to the Universe.
From Stone Soup Poetry's Open Mike on December 28, 2009.
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...and their families in the process. Victorian writers tackled the Angel more creatively. A number, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Isabella Bird, took to their beds, but it was Barrett Browning who also first confronted the Angel head on in her 1856...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Only a woman could write a sonnet like this! The narrator wants love, love and more love - but in silence as well as within sound. If it was written today, it might be called 'Love: The Whole Nine Yards'. The words always make me smile!
From the audio edition of Poets of Nature by BMA Audio which includes Walt Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, the Bronte sisters among others. Enter the woodland and let a lyric poet be your guide.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? - Read by Helen Mirren How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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"Aurora looks like a useless'caryatid', whose hands are empty and whose arms carry nothing. Purposeless andpretentious, her moment of triumph has the opposite effect to Corinee's, forRomney is not impressed. The temple of the old poetic goddesses
has
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C.D.Jain's charcoal works on marginalized children are rivetingly emotive
“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers … They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others” - ‘The Cry of the Children' by Elizabeth Barrett
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The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/mp/2009/12/24/stories/2009122451520400.htm
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To many folks, Christmas poems may be the most memorable verses of the entire year. These treasured verses do echo annually through our Christmas picture books and holiday greetings.
Here are our top 10 favorite famous Christmas poems for use in
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David Gates, in his review of Nabokov’s unfinished “Original of Laura” (Nov. 15), mentions the protagonist’s “sentimentally remembered first love — this one is called Aurora Lee, in a deliberate echo of Humbert Humbert’s Annabel Leigh.” Nabokov’s
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The New York Times
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Come on Gay List boys and girls, it’s that time of year again! Sing along!
Over the river and through the woods to Gaymother’s house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the fey, even light-in-the-loafers Joe. Oh!
Once we get there, we’ll feast on
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Pegasus News
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/nov/25/dish-ilume-bringing-chic-dining-cedar-springs-dall/
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Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw as Fanny Brawne and John Keats in the film Bright Star.
The rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish Steps silently contemplating the beauty of
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/22/keats-rome-poet-bright-star
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The nights are drawing in - but that has not stopped readers of the BBC News website from capturing the vivid colours of autumn.
Here are some of the best we have received - accompanied by the autumnal poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/8345213.stm
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The New York Public Library, with its headquarters at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, encompasses four major research libraries and 87 branches, with a total of 20 million books, 50 million cataloged items and a growing demand in this recession for
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The New York Times
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On Friday, love poetry will be hitting the big screen with the much-trailed
release of Jane Campion’s new period piece Bright Star. Taking
its name from the title and opening line of John Keats’s most famous sonnet,
the film dramatises the doomed
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6898595.ece
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Much attention is focused upon the love stories of Edgar Allan and Virginia Poe and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning when discussing great love stories of the 19th century, while the love story of Anglo-French writer, Hilaire Belloc and his
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2317956/the_true_love_story_of_hilaire_belloc.html
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Second of three articles
Hilburn, former pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times, is author of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life)." An excerpt in Sunday Calendar recalled his relationship with Lennon after the
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Los Angeles Times
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Centuries of romantics have spoken of their love through poetry, making it the perfect complement to any wedding ceremony. And the sonnet is one of the great traditional forms of love poetry, giving you a wealth of poems to choose from.
Shakespeare
You
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2214969/romantic_sonnets_for_your_wedding_readings.html
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - It was one of those moments every traveler longs for: a memory of a particular place that defines it and will remain etched in the mind forever. I was sitting on the terrace of Montego Bay's Half Moon Hotel, sipping that most
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Philly.com
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n June, while touring the Chianti region of Tuscany, R Thomas and Paulette Berner realized it was indeed a small world.
While trying to get into the English Cemetery in Florence to photograph Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, they came across an
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Santa Fe New Mexican
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Leisure/Creative-couple-transform-Italian-trip-into-colorful-book
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Book of Common Prayer, and one of the most admirable qualities of this work is its quest for commonality. It's like a requiem directed more at the survivors than God, staring unblinkingly at loss and figuring out how to move forward.
Composer Dominick
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TwinCities.com
http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_13424527?source=rss
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My favorite time of year is autumn. Leaves begin to turn color, the air has a crisp, cool feeling to it, and there is an anticipation of winter all around. The turning of the seasons has been a mystery and beauty captured by poets for centuries.
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...and autumn symbolizing a fading before the Winter of life when the snow of death envelops us. In The Autumn- Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning continues this analogy of the seasons of life. Her first lines tell us to listen and let our hearts see and hear the...
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Bella Online
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Buzz Flash,
"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say:
Colors seen by candlelight
Will not look the same by day.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Lady's 'Yes,' " 1844.
Sometimes it's not so easy writing a column that might
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BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/smith/337
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Allston, Aaron. Star Wars®: Fate of the Jedi; Outcast. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6007-3. $80; 8 CDs. retail ed. Random House Audio; digital download. SF
Brennert, Alan. Honolulu. 14 CDs. library
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Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678654.html?nid=3286
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Welcome to my celebration of the “Tea Life” – enjoying tea not only as a beverage but as a way of life. This first item is part of a series I will be posting about how to properly enjoy a fine cup of tea. Enjoy and come back often!
You want a cup of
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Town Hall
http://thetealife.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/20/tea_strainers_vs_tea_bags.thtml
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Flight Information -
Bypass the massive crush of LAX and opt for a leisurely check-in at the Oxnard Airport, which provides several daily shuttle flights to and from LAX.
Approximate flight time, with stops: 17+ hours
Flight route from Ventura County:
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Ventura County Star
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Song by Raul Di Blasio Nuestro Poema, album Barroco (1991) Poem: The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them -- The summer flowers depart -- Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone, Except your musing heart. How there you sat in summer-time, May yet be in your mind; And how you heard the green woods sing Beneath the freshening wind. Though the same wind now blows around, You would its blast recall; For every breath that stirs the trees, Doth cause a leaf to fall. Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth That flesh and dust impart: We cannot bear its visitings, When change is on the heart. Gay words and jests may make us smile, When Sorrow is asleep; But other things must make us smile, When Sorrow bids us weep! The dearest hands that clasp our hands, -- Their presence may be o'er; The dearest voice that meets our ear, That tone may come no more! Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth, Which once refresh'd our mind, Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods, The chilling autumn wind. Hear not the wind -- view not the woods; Look out o'er vale and hill- In spring, the sky encircled them -- The sky is round them still. Come autumn's scathe -- come winter's cold -- Come change -- and human fate! Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound, Can ne'er be desolate." Pictures from: www.computerfreewallpapers.com www.flash-screen.com www ...
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In the past 2 months, I passed bye this huge furniture store and finally made a pit stop.
You will get lost and forget what you were looking for until you find about half a dozen choices to choose from throughout the many showrooms.
Ikea has pencils
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In desperate hope I go and search for her
in all the corners of my room;
I find her not.
My house is small
and what once has gone from it can never be regained.
But infinite is thy mansion, my lord,
and seeking her I have to come to thy door.
I
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Town Hall
http://therightwoman.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/07/getting_well,_poets_take_sleep.thtml
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...so randy- "You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -Finally, my namesake, no nom de Plume here- "He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato...
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Ordered by her doctors to recuperate by the sea, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
finds herself bedridden in this book, in "the cleavage" of the
Torquay hills where she practises what she's best at: being poorly and
writing poetry.
Robert Browning, her
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/strange-music-by-laura-fish-1749454.html
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Brian Bedford's solo performance of Ever Yours, Oscar
is a fine companion piece to his production of The Importance of Being Earnest
. Be warned, however: It's more of a lecture or a reading than a piece of theatre.
Looking dapper and much younger than
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Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/an-oscar-wilde-buffet/article1192414/
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During my lifetime, I heard about marriage councilors. These services are primarily known for those married couples having problems and seeking ombudsmen with professional credentials. Their goal was to save a marriage by focusing on the positive
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Town Hall
http://theoldsailor.blogtownhall.com/2009/07/08/the_marraige_councelor.thtml
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Let us count the reasons not to like Giles Andreae. He went to Eton, and to Oxford. He shares a bright and airy office in Notting Hill with Richard Curtis. And with Mariella Frostrup. He's a very old, very good friend of David Cameron. And he must be
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/07/giles-andreae-poems
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This striking and often disturbing novel revolves around three interconnected stories of 19th-century women, all affected by slavery. In England, a bed-bound Elizabeth Barrett Browning campaigns for the abolition of slavery, while in Jamaica her Creole
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/05/strange-music-laura-fish-review
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In September, 14 new public schools will open for business in the Bronx. Most will replace existing schools that the city's Department of Education has decided to close.
Two of the new schools are in the local area: Creston Academy and East Fordham
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Voices That Must Be Heard
http://www.indypressny.org/nycma/voices/381/news_1/news_1/
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Do you see this ring?
‘T is Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani’s imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn,
After a dropping April; found alive
Spark-like ‘mid unearthed slope-side fig-tree roots
That roof old tombs at
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With the current economic situation many people are turning back to the Depression for lessons. What did they eat? What did they garden? And for bibliophiles, what did they read? Where did they get their books? Well, thanks to the NPR and Publishers
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BlogHer
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Publishers Weekly reported in 1933 that book readership was up during the Great Depression. Above, a Works Progress Administration
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CC Sabathia, pitcher for the New York Yankees entertains 8th grade students and parents at The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Middle School 399 on their graduating.
CC Sabathia usually brings the heat. Friday, he had to face it - from grade-school kids in
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New York Daily News
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Yesterday I was thinking, which is something I do on occasion, regardless of what my ex-husband would say; and this time I was pondering the importance of a writer's selecting just the right word in order to convey his or her message with clarity,
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Associated Content
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Is Susan Sontag's
son keeping the real Susan Sontag hidden from the
public with his edit of his late mother's journals? Sontag
biographer Carl Rollyson sure seems to think so.
The dozens of
reviewers and bloggers discussing Susan Sontag’s
Reborn:
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The Advocate
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Starts up
Slowly
Moves in
Lonely
I am
Until we
Round the carts
Start the hearts
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Since NASCAR is soliciting ideas, I've got a few to place in the hopper.
NASCAR officials had a bull session with drivers and teams Tuesday to discuss the state of the sport. What's wrong, and how can it get better?
Well, where shall we begin? My
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ESPN
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning
back in 1850, in the days when people had time enough to calculate such
frivolous things. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul
can reach” — that was
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