If you have time....

[GuiltyPleasure]

...this is kind of interesting. Poetry revived and put to music.

 

[bronzeage]

I love this.

Natalie Merchant is one of those singers who makes me think she is singing for me alone.

 

[theognis]

...this is kind of interesting. Poetry revived and put to music.

Thank you for posting this, Tess. I especially liked Ms. Merchant's version of this poem:

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Spring and Fall:

to a Young Child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I love this.

Natalie Merchant is one of those singers who makes me think she is singing for me alone.

Thank you for posting this, Tess. I especially liked Ms. Merchant's version of this poem:

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Spring and Fall:

to a Young Child

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

I agree with you both, she has the perfect voice for singing poetry, every word is clear.