Comments on: Our Musical Selves: Part Two http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/our-musical-selves-part-two.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ghost of the Machine http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/our-musical-selves-part-two.html/comment-page-1#comment-12392 Ghost of the Machine Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:17:35 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=2437#comment-12392 <a href="http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=307" title="Kéramos" rel="nofollow">Kéramos</a> was one, although she usually would just recite a few lines, such as these: <i>Turn, turn, my wheel! All life is brief; What now is bud will soon be leaf, What now is leaf will soon decay; The wind blows east, the wind blows west; The blue eggs in the robin's nest Will soon have wings and beak and breast, And flutter and fly away. </i> Kéramos was one, although she usually would just recite a few lines, such as these:

Turn, turn, my wheel! All life is brief;
What now is bud will soon be leaf,
What now is leaf will soon decay;
The wind blows east, the wind blows west;
The blue eggs in the robin’s nest
Will soon have wings and beak and breast,
And flutter and fly away.

]]> By: Mr. Lost His Way http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/our-musical-selves-part-two.html/comment-page-1#comment-12390 Mr. Lost His Way Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:15:50 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=2437#comment-12390 I'd be interested to know which poems. I’d be interested to know which poems.

]]> By: Ghost of the Machine http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2009/10/our-musical-selves-part-two.html/comment-page-1#comment-12389 Ghost of the Machine Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:47:47 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=2437#comment-12389 My mom still recites long poems from memory that she learned back in her youth. Of course, in the age before writing, people had to memorize epic poems or they would've vanished. My mom still recites long poems from memory that she learned back in her youth. Of course, in the age before writing, people had to memorize epic poems or they would’ve vanished.

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