Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
[...]
(read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

#pennyspoems

George J. Dance wrote:
>
> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

> Helen, thy beauty is to me
> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
> To his own native shore.
> [...]
> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

> #pennyspoems

Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

George J. Dance wrote:
>
> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

> Helen, thy beauty is to me
> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
> To his own native shore.
> [...]
> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

> #pennyspoems

An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>
>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>      To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>
>> #pennyspoems
>
> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
album all those years ago.) And the reading itself was easily the best
of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.

I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
sing it.

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>
>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>      To his own native shore.
>>> [...]
>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

> The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
> but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
> remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
> album all those years ago.) And the reading itself was easily the best
> of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.

> I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
> the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
> the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
> that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
> the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
> long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
> Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
> regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
> to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
> sing it.

I need to check it out, I had an amusing flame war back in 1999 in which Cat Stevens was mentioned.

I doubt that BBS was archived.

Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

Quite correct....!!

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the archives.

:)

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

Good evening, agreed.

On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> General-Zod wrote:
>
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>
>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>      To his own native shore.
>>> [...]
>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>
>>> #pennyspoems
>
>> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
>
>
> Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
> archives.
>

As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested.
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
:)

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>
>>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>>      To his own native shore.
>>>> [...]
>>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>
>>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>>> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
>>
>>
>> Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
>> archives.
>>

> As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
> necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
> we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested.
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
> :)

Interesting discussion.

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

Definitely, top shelf.

On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 3:56:01 PM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
> On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> > General-Zod wrote:
> >> George J. Dance wrote:
>
> >>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
> >>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
> >
> >>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
> >>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
> >>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
> >>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
> >>> To his own native shore.
> >>> [...]
> >>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
> >
> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
> >
> >>> #pennyspoems
> >
> >> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
> >
> >
> > Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
> > archives.
> >
> As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
> necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
> we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested.
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
> :)

Cool... cool....!

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>
>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>      To his own native shore.
>>> [...]
>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

> The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
> but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
> remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
> album all those years ago.) And the reading itself was easily the best
> of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.

> I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
> the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
> the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
> that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
> the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
> long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
> Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
> regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
> to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
> sing it.

Cat Stevens is going by the new name, still?

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-22 4:36 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>
>>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>>      To his own native shore.
>>>> [...]
>>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>
>>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>>> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!
>>
>>
>> Yes, there's a 500+ message long discussion of this very poem in the
>> archives.
>>

> As I remember, that got into a heated debate over whether it was
> necessary to know about Jane Stanard to understand the poem. I suppose
> we can give the link, for anyone on RAP who might be interested.
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/aAtbapesjek/m/1_iK8hHiAAAJ?hl=en
> :)

Glad we don't have to go through that twice.

:)

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

Good evening, again, agreed.

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>> Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>> The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>> To his own native shore.
>> [...]
>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)

>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html

>> #pennyspoems

> An all-time Edgar Allan Poe fave....!!

Good afternoon, again, agreed.

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>
>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>      To his own native shore.
>>> [...]
>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

> The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
> but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
> remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
> album all those years ago.)

Was a big fan of the brassy sound of Blood Sweat and Tears back when... even my father enjoyed that music...

> And the reading itself was easily the best
> of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.

> I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
> the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
> the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
> that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
> the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
> long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
> Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
> regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
> to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
> sing it.

***

General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:

>> On 2023-02-14 2:53 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
>>>> To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe
>>>
>>>> Helen, thy beauty is to me
>>>>      Like those Nicéan barks of yore,
>>>> That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
>>>>      The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
>>>>      To his own native shore.
>>>> [...]
>>>> (read by Christopher MacIntyre; music by Erik Satie)
>>>
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-helen-edgar-allan-poe.html
>>>
>>>> #pennyspoems
>>>
>>> Interesting music adaptation, good selection, George.

>> The music went on a bit long for my taste, at least at first reading,
>> but it was interesting and I suppose I'll grow to like it. (I can't
>> remember hearing any Erik Satie since the second Blood, Sweat & Tears
>> album all those years ago.)

> Was a big fan of the brassy sound of Blood Sweat and Tears back when... even my father enjoyed that music...

Same here, on their earlier songs.

>> And the reading itself was easily the best
>> of the few versions I found online. I was suprised how few there were.

>> I am trying to add videos to everything; it's one way to add value to
>> the blog. I've embedding videos to the wiki for years, but it's just in
>> the last year or two that I started with the blog. And it's just in 2023
>> that I started including that information ("read by" or "sung by") on
>> the promos. I don't know how it's going to affect the numbers in the
>> long run, but I think it's already resulted in a few visits. Eleanor
>> Farjeon's "Morning Song for the First Day of Spring" has been getting
>> regular visits, for example, and I do think those readers are choosing
>> to read the poem on my site because they also get to hear cat Stevens
>> sing it.

> ***