The Sexes by Bryan Wller Procter (Listen online) -- Understanding Poetry for the Writer

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Date Posted: 00:48:36 03/17/04 Wed
Author: jim clark london england
Subject: The Sexes by Bryan Wller Procter (Listen online)

Bryan Waller Procter (1787 - 1874) a London born poet dramatist and essayist and by profession a lawyer in his elegant little poem spells out probably the most powerful driving force in all of life "sex" . Without it we would have all long since become extinct and perhaps in its noblest form is the foundation to creation itself. A force for good and so often a force for evil our carnal desire for each other has sculpted every aspect of our existence. Surely our price for living is that we cannot escape its eternal angst....

Heres the link to the page where you can listen to this and many other classic poems set to music..

http://groups.msn.com/acousticmusiciansandpoetssoundarchive/poetrysounds.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=564

Regards.

Jim Clark
PS..Dont forget you can if you prefer listen to my sound poems at my Yahoo "sound poetry" web groups (look in "files") heres that link..
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloozman_uk/
You can listen to this particular poem in my second yahoo "Soundpoemz" sound poetry group heres that link..
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundpoemz/

All rights are reserved on this sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark 2004

The Sexes

As the man beholds the woman,
As the woman sees the man,
Curiously they note each other,
As each other only can.

Never can the man divest her
Of that wondrous charm of sex;
Ever must she dreaming, of him,
The same mystic charm annex.

Strange, Inborn, Profound attraction!
Not the poets range of soul,
Learning, science sexless virtue,
Can the gazers thought control.

But, thro' every nerve and fancy
Which the innermost heart reveals,
Twined ingrained, the sense of difference,
Like the subtle serpent steals.

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