““Alone”” by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie presents 2022 Semifinalist Kate Morozova reciting “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe.

[xthornx]

Finally! I must have watched 30 readings and none of them were as well understood and done as this. Not even the Basil Rathbone reading comes close to the correct tempo and emphasis you got. Thank you for this reading, it was exactly what I was looking for.

[nightstars]

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring-From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov'd—I lov'd alone—
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy life-was drawn From evry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still — From the torrent, or the fountain-From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—

[miisupesa]

Amazing! Finally someone who knows exactly which words to emphasize and how to read the very last line!