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Scott Reads Poetry

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by Scott Scharl

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I read poems for your enjoyment. Support the show and buy me a coffee at buymeacoff.ee/scottscharl . Feedback is welcome at hello@scottscharl.com. Thanks for listening!

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11/6/2019

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March 14, 2020

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

<p>Did you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?</p> <p>Support the show by buying me a coffee at <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottscharl" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottscharl</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln</p> <p>My childhood's home I see again,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And sadden with the view;<br> And still, as memory crowds my brain,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There's pleasure in it too.<br> <br> O Memory! thou midway world<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'Twixt earth and paradise,<br> Where things decayed and loved ones lost<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In dreamy shadows rise,<br> <br> And, freed from all that's earthly vile,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,<br> Like scenes in some enchanted isle<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All bathed in liquid light.<br> <br> As dusky mountains please the eye<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When twilight chases day;<br> As bugle-notes that, passing by,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In distance die away;<br> <br> As leaving some grand waterfall,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We, lingering, list its roar—<br> So memory will hallow all<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We've known, but know no more.<br> <br> Near twenty years have passed away<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Since here I bid farewell<br> To woods and fields, and scenes of play,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And playmates loved so well.<br> <br> Where many were, but few remain<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of old familiar things;<br> But seeing them, to mind again<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The lost and absent brings.<br> <br> The friends I left that parting day,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How changed, as time has sped!<br> Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And half of all are dead.<br> <br> I hear the loved survivors tell<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How nought from death could save,<br> Till every sound appears a knell,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And every spot a grave.<br> <br> I range the fields with pensive tread,<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And pace the hollow rooms,<br> And feel (companion of the dead)<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm living in the tombs.</p>

Episode thumbnail for "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson

February 18, 2020

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson

<p>Text: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56824/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-1263">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56824/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-1263</a></p> <p>If you’re enjoying my readings, <a href="https://buymeacoff.ee/scottscharl">buy me a coffee</a>!</p> <p>Thanks for listening.</p>

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February 12, 2020

"God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

<p>Text: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur</a></p> <p>If you’re enjoying my readings, <a href="https://buymeacoff.ee/scottscharl">buy me a coffee</a>!&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks for listening.</p>

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What is Scott Reads Poetry?

I read poems for your enjoyment. Support the show and buy me a coffee at buymeacoff.ee/scottscharl . Feedback is welcome at hello@scottscharl.com. Thanks for listening!

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