W.H. Auden's poetry

[Cure of Ars]

I thought thas you guys might like this. It is an audio recording of W.H. Auden reading his poetry. The first one is related to apologetics.


[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/auden.shtml"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/auden.shtml[/url]

[url="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15552"]http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15552[/url]

[phatcatholic]

do i HAVE to go to the BBC's website? hehe

[Cure of Ars]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Aug 13 2005, 11:26 AM']do i HAVE to go to the BBC's website? hehe
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I give the poem a Nihil Obstat

[phatcatholic]

cool

[StColette]

Marian Poetry is pretty [url="http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/poetry/poetry.html"]http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/poetry/poetry.html[/url]

[Cure of Ars]

Thanks very much for posting that Colette.

[StColette]

You're very much welcome lol

[Cure of Ars]

Well since we are talking Mary poems here is a couple. This was one of Archbishop Fulton Sheen favorite poems:

Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Lovely Lady dressed in blue -------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
Tell me what to say!

Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way
Mother does to me?

Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?

Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things -------
Little things that happen? And
Do the Angels' wings

Make a noise? And can He hear
Me if I speak low?
Does He understand me now?
Tell me -------for you know.

Lovely Lady dressed in blue -------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
And you know the way.


Mary Dixon Thayer who wrote more than one poem for Our Lady, is the author.


And then there is good old Edgar Allan Poe:


At morn - at noon - at twilight dim -
Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woe - in good and ill -
Mother of God, be with me still!
When the hours flew brightly by,
And not a cloud obscured the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be,
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;
Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast
Darkly my Present and my Past,
Let my Future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

[StColette]

[quote name='Cure of Ars' date='Aug 17 2005, 11:43 PM']Well since we are talking Mary poems here is a couple.  This was one of Archbishop Fulton Sheen favorite poems:

Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Lovely Lady dressed in blue -------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
Tell me what to say!

Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way
Mother does to me?

Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?

Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things -------
Little things that happen? And
Do the Angels' wings

Make a noise? And can He hear
Me if I speak low?
Does He understand me now?
Tell me -------for you know.

Lovely Lady dressed in blue -------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
And you know the way.

Mary Dixon Thayer who wrote more than one poem for Our Lady, is the author.

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I love that one