Lyr Add: Sister Death (D B Dolben, musical poem)

Subject: Sister Death by D B Dolben musical poem
From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London.England
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 10:46 AM

Digby Mackworth Dolben (what a wonderful name!) was born in the channel Island of Guernsey and was educated at Eton,where he became a friend of Robert Bridges 1844 - 1930 ( poet who was made poet laureate in 1913) a distant cousin ...He had strong leanings to Catholicism and on occasions dressed in the habit of a Benedictine monk....his untimely death occured whilst swimming in a river in Northamptonshire...This unforgetable beautiful poem almost protheticaly is surely a cry for release from suffering....And heres the link to the page with the sound file...
Sister Death by Digby Mackworth Dolben 1848 - 1867 (sound poem set to music)

Regards..

Jim Clark
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PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web group (look in "files") heres that link
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Sister Death

My sister Death! I pray thee come to me
Of thy sweet charity,
And be my nurse but for a little while;
I will indeed lie still,
And not detain thee long, when once is spread,
Beneath the yew,my bed:
I will not ask for lillies or for roses;
But when the evening closes,
Just take from any brook a single knot
Of pale forget me not,
And lay them in my hand,until I wake,
For his dear sake;
For should he ever pas and by me stand,
He might understand - )
Then heal the passion and the fever
With one cool kiss, for ever.

Subject: RE: Sister Death by D B Dolben musical poem
From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London.England
Date: 11 Feb 03 - 02:49 AM

Try this very lyrical poem.....