Adam McCune
· Classic Literature Read Aloud ·
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Classic Love Poems
- “Shu is Away” (c. 800-500 BC)
translated by Arthur Waley - Text
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- Sappho, “Beauty” (c. 600 BC)
translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Text
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- Catullus, “Vivamus” (1st century BC)
an ancient love poem beginning “let us live and love” (Catullus 5)
translated by Adam F McCune - Verse translation with facing original Latin
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- “Of Every Kind of Tree” (13th-14th century)
an anonymous medieval love poem
translated by Adam F McCune - Verse translation with facing original Middle English
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- Sung to a tune by Adam F McCune
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- Geoffrey Chaucer, “Love is Patient” (14th century)
from the Franklin’s Tale
translated by Adam F McCune - Verse translation with facing original Middle English
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- William Shakespeare, “When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes” (1609)
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- Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes” (1648)
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- Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678)
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Say over again, and yet once over again” (1850)
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- Emily Dickinson, “Wild Nights!” (1891)
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