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    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"
    The Editor
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"

    Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the w...
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    Late Imperial Woes
    By Craig Dobson
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Late Imperial Woes

    I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great ga...
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    Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I
    The Editor
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I

    The Chained Muse is proud to present the first part in a lecture series by music scholar Fred Haight. In this installment, there will be ...
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    The Violin Soldier
    By Paul Gallagher
    • Jul 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Violin Soldier

    It was a story somehow true – it likely happened so, It's strange – but there is much that's strange in human powers to know. A young mus...
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    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert
    Musical Setting
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert

    My songs travel through the cool night, Searching for you. Find me in the tranquil grove, love— I'll wait for you. The gentle fronds of r...
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    Plain English
    By Joseph S. Salemi
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 6 min

    Plain English

    The poetry scene, like every human activity, has its cant and its catchwords. As Robert Louis Stevenson said in his Virginibus Puerisque...
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    Stones
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Stones

    These stones that like huge sculpted figures lie Amid the trunks of moss and fern-clad trees, Eons of creatures have seen born and die An...
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    Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge
    By David B. Gosselin
    • Jul 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge

    The travelers had reached a gorge Whose darkness they would have to breach. The mountaintops lay far ahead— “Such darkness has a lot to t...
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    Song of the Spirits on the Water by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Original Translation
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Song of the Spirits on the Water by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    The soul of mankind Is like water: From Heaven coming, To Heaven rising, Again descending – As it must – Earthward, Ever circling. It str...
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