Jonty's Jaunts

Wistful daydreaming from a hopeless romantic, nostalgic for a time that perhaps was never there. Poetry, music, trains, gardens &c. ...

[Jonty's Jaunts @jauntsofjonty]

https://t.co/L8IHFM8ni0 ... and it seems to happen nearly overnight - life shows you who you've become ... there's no more mystery in the fading light - you're just Chasing What's Already Gone

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@phillipcrymble Love Cope, especially for her fondness for Housman! This poem reminds me of the Flanders & Swann weather song 🎵 📚 🙏 https://t.co/7W16JFH5ej

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@roryisconfused I was just the same! Until one day I listened to Time Out Of Mind, then Love & Theft and Modern Times etc all a revelation! A great way into this is more 'recent' live versions of his earlier classics, like 'It's Alright Ma' from nearly 20yrs ago! 🎶 🙏
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"... Ay, yonder lads are yet/ The fools that we were then; For oh, the sons we get/ Are still the sons of men. The sumless tale of sorrow/ Is all unrolled in vain: May comes to-morrow/ And Ludlow fair again ..." A. E. Housman

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@JoeBrownLondon The closure of a station with no fanfare reminds me of this moving antipodean folk song (the title refers to the train to remove the weeds on the disused line) - well worth a listen 🎶 🚂 🙏https://t.co/GCiEQrtDZ7

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@mjc0ughl4n Lovely version ... and the piece inspired Vaughan Williams' 'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis' 🎶 🙏

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@dwynwen17 @Matedwards7 Love RST & I'd not come across this one: thanks for sharing! The photo also reminds me of Dylan Thomas' words "Teach me the love that is ever-green after the fall-leaved grave, after 'Beloved' on the grass-gulfed cross is scrubbed off by the sun" from 'In The White Giant's Thigh'

[Theatre Weekly @theatre_weekly]

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@prodnose I remember discovering 'The Hungry Years' when it was chosen by Bradley Walsh on Desert Island Discs https://t.co/svI4QyK7WG 🎶

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@roryisconfused Another Year

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@tony_domestico Captures what many people will be doing with the new year return to work! Think she was good friends with Dylan Thomas

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@BretVDB If you can cope with it (!) - here's counter-tenor Alfred Deller singing Full Fathom Five from 1955 🎶 https://t.co/C1caBIsgN4

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@adrianmckinty here's Larkin reading it ... https://t.co/Gpt62ubsYE ... nothing more terrible, nothing more true 📚 🙏

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@BretVDB https://t.co/Pga0naStyi 📚 🙏

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@BretVDB I'd never made the connection with Fern Hill before: thank you! It also reminds me of Thomas' 'Poem in October' where, on his 30th birthday, he makes the link to earlier seasons: both the summery weather during his autumnal walk and seeing & remembering his feelings as a child

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@foreverantrim but I have promises to keep

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"Summer was gone and the heat died down, and autumn reached for her golden crown, I looked behind as I heard a sigh, but this was the time of no reply..."

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@BretVDB "Come Love, come Lord, and that long day/ For which I languish, come away./ When this dry soul those eyes shall see/ And drink the unseal'd source of Thee,/ When glory's sun faith's shades shall chase,/ Then for Thy veil give me Thy face."

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@BretVDB I wonder if you've read/ listened to the Vaughan Williams setting of Crashaw's 'Come Love, Come Lord' ? ... never fails to be moving - amazing how so much is encapsulated in such a short piece 📚 🎶 🙏 https://t.co/HVANkKoQp1

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... what was it all for - the weather or the battle of agincourt ? ...

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

The remarkable story of Barbara Holdridge, co-founder of Caedmon records who, in giving us the gift of hearing the voices of Dylan Thomas, Auden, Elliott, Hughes, Hemingway and many others reading their own works, invented the audio book.
https://t.co/zNRPvNH4jx