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The Hours Before Dawn
7 echoes · 21 min
contemplative
Seven poets, awake at hours most of the world misses. Each watching for something they could not quite name. A spiral through Orion's still beauty, Hopkins's praise of dappled things, Hardy's century-end thrush, Coleridge's vigil with his sleeping son, Whitman's release into the wordless, Wordsworth stopped on a bridge by a sleeping London. The point was never to answer. The point was to be awake.
- 01IntroThe Hours Before Dawn0:45
- 02OpeningSetting the stage1:19
- 03Winter StarsSara Teasdale · Threshold0:52
- 04From Teasdale to DickinsonBridge0:49
- 05I'll tell you how the Sun roseEmily Dickinson · Setting the stage0:45
- 06From Dickinson to HopkinsBridge1:08
- 07Pied BeautyGerard Manley Hopkins · First turn1:06
- 08From Hopkins to HardyBridge0:44
- 09The Darkling ThrushThomas Hardy · Descent1:36
- 10From Hardy to ColeridgeBridge0:54
- 11Frost at MidnightSamuel Taylor Coleridge · Anchor5:20
- 12InterludeThe Hours Before Dawn0:30
- 13From the interlude to WhitmanBridge0:46
- 14A Clear MidnightWalt Whitman · The Quiet0:36
- 15From Whitman to WordsworthBridge0:42
- 16Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802William Wordsworth · Return / Coda1:10
- 17After the VoyageClosing0:29
- 18OutroThe Hours Before Dawn1:00