Moon music on the march

 

 a GREAT COLLECTION OF MOON MUSIC - HARVARD ORGY PERIOD, NOV 2023

2:06 AM

Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

Ludwig van Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven

Moonlight Sonata - Single Piano and Classics 2023 Classical NLAM42300197

2:11 AM

Adam Melchor - Moon in the Morning

Adam Melchor Moon in the Morning Adam Melchor

Melchor Lullaby Hotline, Vol. 1 R&R Digital/Warner Records 2021 USWB12100749

2:15 AM

Alice Phoebe Lou - Lover / / Over the Moon

Alice Phoebe Lou Lover / / Over the Moon Alice Phoebe Lou

Glow Alice Phoebe Lou 2020 FR10S2142954

2:17 AM

Maiya Blaney - Epigraph (feat. Flwr Chyld) [The Moon Wore an Afro!]

Maiya Blaney Epigraph (feat. Flwr Chyld) [The Moon Wore an Afro!] Maiya Blaney

3 NTL Recordings 2021 QZDA82143751

2:19 AM

The Police - Walking On The Moon

The Police Walking On The Moon

Reggatta De Blanc (Remastered 2003) Polydor Records 2016 GBAAM0201175

 

 

 

2:25 AM

Erykah Badu - Orange Moon

Erykah Badu Orange Moon Erykah Badu

Mama's Gun Motown (Kedar) 2000 USMO10001027

 

 

 

 

 

2:32 AM

Liana Flores - rises the moon

Liana Flores rises the moon Liana Flores

recently - EP liana flores 2019 QZDA61986777

 

 

 

 

 

2:35 AM

Reneé Rapp - Moon

Reneé Rapp Moon Reneé Rapp

Everything To Everyone Interscope Records 2022 USUM72221174

 

 

 

 

 

2:38 AM

Frank Ocean - Moon River

Frank Ocean Moon River Frank Ocean

Moon River - Single Blonded 2018 QM24S1802611

 

 

 

 

 

2:41 AM

Frank Sinatra - Old Devil Moon

Frank Sinatra Old Devil Moon Frank Sinatra

BD Music Presents Frank Sinatra, Vol. 2 BDMUSIC 2012 Jazz FR8X01200129

 

 

 

 

 

2:46 AM

Jessica Pratt - Moon Dude

Jessica Pratt Moon Dude Jessica Pratt

On Your Own Love Again Drag City Records 2015 US58L1560605

 

 

 

 

 

2:50 AM

Phoebe Bridgers - Moon Song

Phoebe Bridgers Moon Song Phoebe Bridgers

Punisher Dead Oceans 2020 USJ5G2020007

 

 

 

 

 

2:54 AM

Big Thief - Red Moon

Big Thief Red Moon Big Thief

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 4AD 2022 GBAFL2100224

 

 

 

 

 

2:56 AM

Flyte - Moon Unit

Flyte Moon Unit Flyte

Moon Unit - Single Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2018 Classical GBUM71800883

 

 

 

 

 

3:03 AM

Miles Davis - Moon Dreams

Miles Davis Moon Dreams Miles Davis

Birth of the Cool Blue Note (BLU) 2013 Jazz USCA28900537

 

 

 

 

 

3:06 AM

Oscar Peterson - Blue Moon

Oscar Peterson Blue Moon Oscar Peterson

The Complete Oscar Peterson Volume 1 River Records 2008 Jazz GBGQH0803442

 

 

 

 

 

3:08 AM

Mac DeMarco - Moonlight on the River

Mac DeMarco Moonlight on the River Mac DeMarco

This Old Dog Captured Tracks 2017 QMMZN1701309

 

 

 

 

 

3:15 AM

Laura Marling - Howl

Laura Marling Howl Laura Marling

Short Movie (Director's Cut) Virgin Records Ltd 2015 GBUM71406559

 

 

 

 

 

3:22 AM

beabadoobee - The Moon Song

beabadoobee The Moon Song beabadoobee

The Moon Song - Single Dirty Hit 2017 GBK3W1900970

 

 

 

 

 

3:23 AM

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

Mitski My Love Mine All Mine Mitski

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Dead Oceans 2023 USJ5G2335007

 

 

 

 

 

3:26 AM

Dhruv - moonlight

Dhruv moonlight dhruv

moonlight - Single Little Worry/RCA Records 2020 QM24S2001140

 

 

 

 

 

3:29 AM

Lamp - Behind the Moon Shadow

Lamp Behind the Moon Shadow Lamp

For Lovers Botanical House 2004 JPG100400508

 

 

 

 

 

3:35 AM

Billie Holiday Blue Moon Rodgers and Hart

Solitude Verve 1956 USPR35200069

 

 

 

 

 

3:38 AM

Van Morrison - Moondance

Van Morrison Moondance Van Morrison

Moondance (Deluxe Edition) Warner Records 2013 USWB11302597

 

 

 

 

 

3:43 AM

The Smashing Pumpkins - Luna (Remastered)

The Smashing Pumpkins Luna (Remastered) The Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Records 2011 USVI21100158

 

 

 

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Friends

During exam periods, Harvard Radio Broadcasting [WHRB-FM] plays extended shows on artists or topics. You just missed the Ode to the Moon Orgy. But here is a link to the interesting material they played: https://spinitron.com/WHRB/pl/18235544/ode-to-the-moon Included were such as Mr Moonlight, Paper Moon, Fly Me to the Moon. Who here looks at the Moon in the night sky and wonders that men once walked on it? I do.

 https://spinitron.com/WHRB/pl/18235544/ode-to-the-moon

 

3:47 AM

2 Chainz & Lil Wayne Moonlight (feat. Marsha Ambrosius) 2 Chainz

Welcome 2 Collegrove

 

 

 

 

 

3:51 AM

Kid Cudi - Man On the Moon

Kid Cudi Man On the Moon Kid Cudi

Man On the Moon: The End of Day (Deluxe Version) Kid Cudi/Universal Records 2009 USUM70982484

 

 

 

 

 

3:54 AM

Kanye West - Moon

Kanye West Moon

Donda Rock The World/IDJ/Kanye LP7 2021 USUM72116291

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 AM

Slaughter Beach, Dog - At the Moonbase

Slaughter Beach, Dog At the Moonbase Slaughter Beach, Dog

At the Moonbase Lame-O Records 2020 QMCE71303011

 

 

 

 

 

4:02 AM

Billie Marten - La Lune

Billie Marten La Lune Billie Marten

Writing of Blues and Yellows (Deluxe Version) Chess Club/RCA Victor 2016 GBARL1600328

 

 

 

 

 

4:02 AM

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Christoph Eschenbach - Liederkreis, Op. 39: V. Mondnacht

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Christoph Eschenbach Liederkreis, Op. 39: V. Mondnacht Robert Schumann

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Liederkreis, Op. 39 & Selections from "Myrten", Op. 25 Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 1985 Classical DEF057530409

 

 

 

 

 

4:04 AM

Olga Peretyatko, Miguel Gomez-Martinez Rusalka: Song to the Moon Antonin Dvorak

La Bellezza del Canto

 

 

 

 

 

4:15 AM

Paul Simon - Song About the Moon

Paul Simon Song About the Moon Paul Simon

Hearts and Bones (Bonus Tracks Edition) Legacy Recordings 2010 USSM11002194

 

 

 

 

 

4:20 AM

Rickie Lee Jones - The Moon Is Made of Gold

Rickie Lee Jones The Moon Is Made of Gold Rickie Lee Jones

Balm In Gilead Fantasy Records 2009 USC4R0920708

 

 

 

 

 

4:22 AM

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (2002 Remastered Version)

David Bowie Moonage Daydream (2002 Remastered Version) David Bowie

Sound and Vision Parlophone UK 2007 USJT10200021

 

 

 

 

 

4:27 AM

Florist - Moon Begins

Florist Moon Begins Florist

Emily Alone Tugboat Records 2019 QZAZS1906102

 

 

 

 

 

4:31 AM

Astrud Gilberto Fly Me To The Moon Bart Howard

The Shadow Of Your Smile

 

 

 

 

 

4:35 AM

Pharoah Sanders - Moon Rays

Pharoah Sanders Moon Rays Pharoah Sanders

Moon Child Timeless Records 1990 Jazz NLA410814491

 

 

 

 

 

4:39 AM

Benny Goodman - Moonglow

Benny Goodman Moonglow Benny Goodman

Swing-Sation: Benny Goodman GRP 1999 Jazz USWWW0202774

 

 

 

 

 

4:46 AM

Denée Benton - No One Else

Denée Benton No One Else

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Reprise 2017 USRE11700112

 

 

 

 

 

4:52 AM

Shoshanna Bean Stars and the Moon Jason Robert Brown

Songs for a New World

 

 

 

 

 

4:57 AM

Will Connolly & Once Ensemble - The Moon

Will Connolly & Once Ensemble The Moon

Once: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 2012 USSM11200357

 

 

 

 

 

4:59 AM

They Might Be Giants - Nightgown of the Sullen Moon

They Might Be Giants Nightgown of the Sullen Moon They Might Be Giants

Miscellaneous T Idlewild Recordings 1991 USRS72971005

 

 

 

 

 

5:02 AM

Ernie - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

Ernie I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites Sesame Workshop Catalog 2018 USSM19500702

 

 

 

 

 

5:04 AM

Ted Jacobs - The Moon

Ted Jacobs The Moon Ted Jacobs

A Child's Garden of Songs House At The Corner Music 2009 USTC00911378

 

 

 

 

 

5:06 AM

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Moonlight In Vermont

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Moonlight In Vermont

The Complete Ella and Louis On Verve Verve Reissues 1997 Jazz USPR35600041

 

 

 

 

 

5:11 AM

George Harrison - Here Comes the Moon (2004 Remaster)

George Harrison Here Comes the Moon (2004 Remaster) George Harrison

George Harrison BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 2007 GBEXP0300013

 

 

 

 

 

5:15 AM

Simon Paul Arneberg - Moon Shadows

Simon Paul Arneberg Moon Shadows Simon Paul Arneberg

Windwatcher - EP Simon Paul Arneberg 2022 QZES52215715

 

 

 

 

 

5:21 AM

Frank Sinatra - Moon River

Frank Sinatra Moon River

Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE 2009 Jazz USRH10800814

 

 

 

 

 

5:24 AM

Ichiko Aoba - A Hill of the Moon

Ichiko Aoba A Hill of the Moon Ichiko Aoba

qp Speedstar JPVI01892370

 

 

 

 

 

5:28 AM

Ariana Grande - Moonlight

Ariana Grande Moonlight Ariana Grande

Dangerous Woman Universal Records 2016 USUM71602106

 

 

 

 

 

5:31 AM

BTS - Moon

BTS Moon BTS

MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 BIGHIT MUSIC 2020 QM4TX2001954

 

 

 

 

 

5:35 AM

George Winston - Moon

George Winston Moon George Winston

Autumn Dancing Cat Records 1980 USWH18001015

 

 

 

 

 

5:43 AM

Simon Russell - Moon Eyes

Simon Russell Moon Eyes Simon Russell

Moon Eyes - Single Sony Music Local 2023 SEBGA2304206

 

 

 

 

 

5:46 AM

Sade - The Moon and the Sky

Sade The Moon and the Sky Sade

Soldier of Love RCA Records Label 2010 GBARL0901615

 

 

 

 

 

5:52 AM

Josiah and the Bonnevilles - Blood Moon

Josiah and the Bonnevilles Blood Moon Josiah and the Bonnevilles

Blood Moon - Single Too Lost 2022 TCAGE2209806

 

 

 

 

 

5:54 AM

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Moonlight Serenade

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Moonlight Serenade Glenn Miller

Ultimate Big Band Collection: Glenn Miller Masterworks Jazz 1939 Jazz USBB10200877

 

 

 

 

 

5:58 AM

Panic! At the Disco - When the Day Met the Night

Panic! At the Disco When the Day Met the Night Panic! At the Disco

Pretty. Odd. Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen/ATL 2008 USAT20801311

 

 

 

 

 

6:07 AM

André Previn - Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes", Op. 33a: III. Moonlight (Andante comodo e rubato)

André Previn Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes", Op. 33a: III. Moonlight (Andante comodo e rubato) André Previn

Holst: Die Planeten - Britten: Four Sea Interludes (Inspiration) Warner Classics International 2016 Classical GBAYC0301468

 

 

 

 

 

6:12 AM

Air - Moon Fever

Air Moon Fever Air

Le voyage dans la lune Aircheology 2012 FRU521100011

 

 

 

 

 

6:16 AM

Silje Nergaard - Borrowing Moons

Silje Nergaard Borrowing Moons Silje Nergaard

Nightwatch Universal Music AS 2003 Jazz NOAMM0300268

 

 

 

 

 

6:19 AM

Sammy Copley - Moon Man

Sammy Copley Moon Man Sammy Copley

Growing Pains 884427 Records DK 2020 QZNWU2036495

 

 

 

 

 

6:23 AM

Corinne Bailey Rae - Been to the Moon

Corinne Bailey Rae Been to the Moon

The Heart Speaks in Whispers (Deluxe) Virgin Records Ltd 2016 GBUM71600025

 

 

 

 

 

6:27 AM

Feist - My Moon My Man

Feist My Moon My Man Feist

The Reminder Arts & Crafts 2007 FRUM70600211

 

 

 

 

 

6:32 AM

Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-Tette - I Love to Watch the Moonlight

Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-Tette I Love to Watch the Moonlight

Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (Remastered) Bethlehem Records 2014 Jazz QMSGD1370385

 

 

 

 

 

6:35 AM

Men Without Hats - Moonbeam

Men Without Hats Moonbeam

Pop Goes The World Mercury Records 1987 USUM72010012

 

 

 

 

 

6:39 AM

Jacob Collier - Moon River

Jacob Collier Moon River Jacob Collier

Djesse, Vol. 2 Decca (UMO) 2019 GBUM71902312

 

 

 

 

 

6:47 AM

Bel Canto - Picnic on the Moon

Bel Canto Picnic on the Moon Bel Canto

Birds of Passage Crammed Discs 1990 NOYCA9001060

 

 

 

 

 

6:54 AM

Dean Martin - That's Amore

Dean Martin That's Amore

Dino: The Essential Dean Martin CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2013 USCA29701330

 

 

 

 

 

6:55 AM

John Maus - Hey Moon

John Maus Hey Moon John Maus

We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Ribbon Music 2011 GBVCE1149004

 

 

 

 

 

7:00 AM

Radiohead - Sail to the Moon

Radiohead Sail to the Moon Radiohead

Hail to the Thief XL Recordings 2003 GBAYE0300804

 

 

 

 

 

7:04 AM

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently Gently Away

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently Gently Away

Electric Ladyland Legacy Recordings 2009 USQX90900746

 

 

 

 

 

7:05 AM

Bruno Mars - Talking to the Moon

Bruno Mars Talking to the Moon Bruno Mars

Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra (NEK) 2010 USAT21206921

 

 

 

 

 

7:12 AM

Teresa Teng 月亮代表我的心

Love In Hong Kong

 

 

 

 

 

7:13 AM

Lord Huron Harvest Moon

Spotify Singles

 

 

 

 

 

7:18 AM

Audra McDonald - Baby Moon

Audra McDonald Baby Moon Adam Guettel

Way Back to Paradise Nonesuch 1998 Classical USNO19848208

 

 

 

 

 

7:23 AM

King Harvest - Dancing In the Moonlight

King Harvest Dancing In the Moonlight King Harvest

Dancing In the Moonlight Darbo Music LLC 1973 USY4W0610011

 

 

 

 

 

7:26 AM

Chet Baker - Moon Love

Chet Baker Moon Love Chet Baker

BD Music Presents Chet Baker BDMUSIC 2004 Jazz FR8X00400327

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

Gregory Alan Isakov - That Moon Song

Gregory Alan Isakov That Moon Song Gregory Alan Isakov

This Empty Northern Hemisphere Gregory Alan Isakov 2009 USCGJ0988298

 

 

 

 

 

7:33 AM

Maya Hawke - Restless Moon

Maya Hawke Restless Moon Maya Hawke

MOSS Mom+Pop 2022 USQE92100343

 

 

 

 

 

7:37 AM

Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Moonshadow (Live from the United States, 1976)

Yusuf / Cat Stevens Moonshadow (Live from the United States, 1976) Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Majikat Earth Tour 1976 (Live) BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 1976 GBCBR0402987

 

 

 

 

 

7:40 AM

Ella Fitzgerald & The Delta Rhythm Boys - It's Only A Paper Moon

Ella Fitzgerald & The Delta Rhythm Boys It's Only A Paper Moon Ella Fitzgerald

Cooking Music: Jazz UME - Global Clearing House 2021 Jazz USMC14572798

 

 

 

 

 

7:43 AM

Indigo De Souza - The Moon Is No Good

Indigo De Souza The Moon Is No Good Indigo De Souza

Boys (feat. Michael Libramento, Andrew Costantino & Ryan Lassiter) - Single Cement Hotel 2016 GBSMU2552255

 

 

 

 

 

7:49 AM

Stevie Wonder Moon Blue Stevie Wonder

A Time to Love

 

 

 

 

 

7:55 AM

The Beatles - Mr. Moonlight (Takes 1 & 4)

The Beatles Mr. Moonlight (Takes 1 & 4) The Beatles

Anthology Box Set UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2010 GBAYE1100471

 

 

 

 

 

7:59 AM

Frank Sinatra Fly me to the moon

The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BMG 2005 CD Jazz

 

 

 

 

Al compas del mundo - programa - #49 - Folklore of Latin America

 

I have always been smitten with the Bolivian “cholitas” (campesina) fashion of bowler hats. Who started this, trend, how, and why? I can just imagine some itinerant hat vendor, recently having made the buy of a lifetime (!), treking from village to village through the Andes and spreading rumors that in the next town over these new bulbous hats are all the rage. Or not. Investigation is called for. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Latin America folks adapted, evolved and invented right up to the present day – where torn jeans, NBA logo hats, and hiphop sounds are the new bee’s knees. Let’s go back, shall we, to an earlier time when Chileans danced the cueca, accordions ruled Colombia, and Puerto Ricans sang of the harvests instead of worrying about when the electricity might come back. Welcome to the transitory, world of Al compas del mundo, programa #49! - J.H.

Check out the runlist for the latest show ... Oct 13, 2022 ... Folklore of Latin America!

01 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - Maria Chuchena (Mexico)

02 Teresin Jaén - Amores Con Papelito (Panamá)

03 Los Manseros Santiagueños – Niño de sueños (Argentina)

04 Orquesta Milenium - La ley y la trampa (Guatemala)

05 Allpa - Antonio Mocho (Ecuador)

06 Alfredo Zitarrosa - La Ley Es Tela De Araña (Uruguay)

07 Abelardo Vásquez y Cumana - Préndeme la Vela (Perú)

08 Felipe Rodríguez - La Rosa Blanca (Puerto Rico)

09 Isabel y Ángel Parra - Cuecas del Pañuelo (Chile)

10 Sebastião Rocha Perazzo - Pisa Na Fulô (Brazil)

11 Simón Díaz - Tonada del Cabrestero (Venezuela)

12 Grupo de Palos San Miguel Arcángel - Candelo sedife (Republica Dominicana)

13 El Jilguero de Cienfuegos - El Hombre Feo y el Bonito (Cuba)

14 Bolivia Manta - Chayantenita (Bolivia)

15 Oriana Chacón - Sabanero Guanacasteco (Costa Rica)

16 Alejandro Duran - Cuerpo cobarde (Colombia)

17 Los Hermanos Flores - Salvadoreñas (El Salvador)

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An Anthology of Medieval Lyrics - My Poetry Bookshelf

Will come to this again. The Eternal Note of Sadness. Matthew Arnold pegged it, listening to the Ocean. Willie Nelson too – he said, Listen to what the blues are saying. It is in a lot of Medieval lyricism too. It's there on my book shelf in The Modern Library’s An Anthology of Medieval Lyrics. Edited by Angel Flores.*

But let's get to the poem - from the north of France, in the 14th or 15th century, a girl is versifying. Take it away, Christine de Pisan.

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If I’m in church more often now

By Christine de Pisan

If I’m in church more often now
It’s just that I can see her there
Fresh as new-opened roses are.

Why gossip of it, why endow
It with such consequence? Why stare
If I’m in church more often now?

Where I may go – or when – or how
It is to come more near to her.
Fools call me fool! It’s whose affair
If I’m in church more often now?

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Comment on the poem - This is a woman poet riffing on the girl in church with she’s smitten. I know all about that. Spent as much time dreamily directing eyes at the 8th grade girls as in siting them heavenward, during the Mass, daily and Sunday, thinking about Earth as it is in Heaven. The poet has the defiance of the blues poet - T'aint nobody's business .... It's whose affair if I am in church now?

Comment on the form -There’s a fair bit of courtier fancy chivalry in these poems – and it may get doubly propagated in translation; like Valentine Card poems, they can grate. There can be traps in translation, as people try to push round rhyme, language, and lyric music into square pegs. It can get clumsy, or sing-song, and some of that is patent here in this tome, which includes the Robert Johnson of the French middle ages, Villon. It may be surprising but in many of the medieval lyrics there’s a bluesy bawdiness round many a corner.

Something about the poet - Christine de Pisan’s father was an astrologer and physician, living at the tail-end of the Middle Ages ( 1364-1430). Hard times led her to write, and she may have ended her days in a convent.

* Angel was a great poet-translator we will come up on again and again.

Let me riff a little on Kuno Meyer

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Let me riff a little on Kuno Meyer. His name surfaced on my horizon way back. The book was Selections of Ancient Irish Poetry (1911). I bought a replicated version of the book - which was something you did back in the day on out-of-print books whose copyrights had expired. A nifty version of Selections of Ancient Irish Poetry is now on the Web via the Way Back machine.

Memorable name and it belonged to a guy who was very deep into early Irish poetry. His translations were amazing. You know there are some people (Angel Flores is another) who get it, when it comes to translating poetry.

I didn’t really know anything about Kuno himself. And was disappointed when I looked him up (cursorily) that there wasn’t much about his talent .. but there was a whole lot about his controversy.

I just learned today he was a German scholar, and he went to Great Britain as a student, and he developed a love for Irish poetry. But what he became famous for was something completely other. During WW I, before U.S. joined, he was at Harvard, and vocally favored Germany (Kaiser-era Germany, this was) ,and so he got blackballed by the English and the Irish (who were then dominated by English) and by the Americans even though it was a time when we were still neutral. Later on, after independence, the Irish reinstated some of his honorariums.

Well, here is some flavor of the scholar Meyer. An intro to Ancient Irish Poetry.  Let him speak:

" Slowly, ..., the fact is becoming recognised in ever wider circles that the vernacular literature of ancient Ireland is the most primitive and original among the literatures of Western Europe, and that in its origins and development it affords a most fascinating study. Whatever may be its intrinsic merit, its importance as the earliest voice from the dawn of West European civilisation cannot be denied."

"Religious poetry ranges from single quatrains to lengthy compositions dealing with all the varied aspects of religious life. Many of them give us a fascinating insight into the peculiar character of the early Irish Church, which differed in so many ways from the rest of the Christian world."

"In Nature poetry the Gaelic muse may vie with that of any other nation. Indeed, these poems occupy a unique position in the literature of the world. To seek out and watch and love Nature, in its tiniest phenomena as in its grandest, was given to no people so early and so fully as to the Celt. Many hundreds of Gaelic and Welsh poems testify to this fact."

Let's take a look at Meyer's thoughts on the Irish and Japanese poetry - as they dovetail with those of the recent Irish poetry champ, the late Seamus Heaney. [All this cadged from author Irene DeAngelis.] In an introduction to Ancient Irish Poetry Kuno noted that the Celts, like the Japanese, avoided the obvious in composition. "The half said thing to them is dearest." he writes. Heaney in an interview too sees a poetic kinship - a deep one:

"A devotion to succinctness, to formal concision, to delight in the natural world" as well as monkishness, asceticism, hermitage and "a response to a detail of the world that was a response to its whole mystery." 

RELATED:
If you follow this link… it leads to more .. and more .. of these St Patrick's Day Irish Poetry posts.

I am not much of a nature poet. In a way, I am a city boy. But I do appreciate the view on Nature of Ireland obtained in this PBS Nature documentary, while warning that this link probably wont be live forever.

And finally (see below) let's go to SoundCloud for a reading of Meyer (translation) with Cold, Cold Tonight , Heaney with Molyullah. - Jack Vaughan

The fish of Ireland are a-roaming,
There is no strand which the wave does not pound,
Not a town there is in the land,
Nor a bell is heard, no crane talks.
-From Cold Tonight