Scott Reads Poetry

Scott Reads Poetry

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Scott Reads Poetry episodes

  • "My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln

    Did you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?

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    "My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln

    My childhood's home I see again,

       And sadden with the view;
    And still, as memory crowds my brain,
       There's pleasure in it too.

    O Memory! thou midway world
       'Twixt earth and paradise,
    Where things decayed and loved ones lost
       In dreamy shadows rise,

    And, freed from all that's earthly vile,
       Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,
    Like scenes in some enchanted isle
       All bathed in liquid light.

    As dusky mountains please the eye
       When twilight chases day;
    As bugle-notes that, passing by,
       In distance die away;

    As leaving some grand waterfall,
       We, lingering, list its roar—
    So memory will hallow all
       We've known, but know no more.

    Near twenty years have passed away
       Since here I bid farewell
    To woods and fields, and scenes of play,
       And playmates loved so well.

    Where many were, but few remain
       Of old familiar things;
    But seeing them, to mind again
       The lost and absent brings.

    The friends I left that parting day,
       How changed, as time has sped!
    Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
       And half of all are dead.

    I hear the loved survivors tell
       How nought from death could save,
    Till every sound appears a knell,
       And every spot a grave.

    I range the fields with pensive tread,
       And pace the hollow rooms,
    And feel (companion of the dead)
       I'm living in the tombs.

    2 min
  • "My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln

    Did you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?

    Support the show by buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottscharl.

    ---

    "My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln

    My childhood's home I see again,

       And sadden with the view;
    And still, as memory crowds my brain,
       There's pleasure in it too.

    O Memory! thou midway world
       'Twixt earth and paradise,
    Where things decayed and loved ones lost
       In dreamy shadows rise,

    And, freed from all that's earthly vile,
       Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,
    Like scenes in some enchanted isle
       All bathed in liquid light.

    As dusky mountains please the eye
       When twilight chases day;
    As bugle-notes that, passing by,
       In distance die away;

    As leaving some grand waterfall,
       We, lingering, list its roar—
    So memory will hallow all
       We've known, but know no more.

    Near twenty years have passed away
       Since here I bid farewell
    To woods and fields, and scenes of play,
       And playmates loved so well.

    Where many were, but few remain
       Of old familiar things;
    But seeing them, to mind again
       The lost and absent brings.

    The friends I left that parting day,
       How changed, as time has sped!
    Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
       And half of all are dead.

    I hear the loved survivors tell
       How nought from death could save,
    Till every sound appears a knell,
       And every spot a grave.

    I range the fields with pensive tread,
       And pace the hollow rooms,
    And feel (companion of the dead)
       I'm living in the tombs.

    2 min
  • "Leisure" by William Henry Davies

    Text: https://englishverse.com/poems/leisure

    Thanks to Parker Fox for this recommendation!

    If you have a poem (in the public domain) that you'd like to hear, reach out to @scott_scharl or [email protected].\

    If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.

    1 min
  • "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats

    Yeats  was inspired to write this poem about living a simple life on a lake near a place where he spent summers as a child in County Sligo, Ireland. He was influenced by Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree

    If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.

    2 min

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