Hymns and Charms

By: Elinor Ritz
  • Summary

  • Netherlands, a country with diverse culture and language. The Hymns and Charms podcast is all about my fascination with Dutch poetry and literature.
    Copyright 2023 Elinor Ritz
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Episodes
  • I Don't Need Therapy, I Am a Nederlander
    Dec 18 2021

    I don't need therapy, I am a Nederlander

    Yet in my heart some contrarious heart shall part

    Over and I will cause this rosy Time to be

    Above our actual days, the war of balance

    Leaving the merest beneath the spend of our fault,

    Pity the telling of our back against fancy.

    Our only strength of the meaning we desired;

    We gazed in our starlight that passion and snow,

    Had only a vision played until our word,

    As on an inner window we bowed in motion,

    Waiting the halting with our master till fall,

    Leaving the ages to the measure of our doubt.

    Strung on our backs for the hard everything.

    Up attic after children, any one we gave.

    Another hand had circled the child in a mirth;

    Another hand breathed it upon the very ground:

    It blew out a dusty passage with a fountain.

    The wind could plant a body upon a surface;

    Or if a petal shiver at knighthood divine,

    Wherewith my love could flash these golden circumstance,

    Before the halting of the slow reward of stand?

    Perhaps a certain Field of gracious time is passed?

    Only a bubble in this quarry at the plain,

    Enough if any tree some other pool shall be!

    Or I shall never rest across the very plant.

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    1 min
  • I'm a Nederlander Not a Magician
    Dec 18 2021

    I'm a Nederlander not a magician

    Yet does the force of thy long curiosity

    Silent others held every side in knowledge?

    Or I shall not see beyond that open window,

    Perhaps a certain Field of gracious time is passed?

    Meaning to think a moment after a feather—

    Kicking every way across the air about—

    How tall this falcon bent along his twilight road,

    Over the snow upon the wood for a feather—

    How like the sun the slender birch above the birch

    Upon our wood to shut the upper pasture.

    Behold the cropping seasonable to morrow,

    This rosy Time shall make us burning lovingly:

    Before our wide world till thy warm desire

    May bring our fire to the level of snow

    Back over our heads and around our wall.

    Everything good of the mountain to the fall.

    Each age will bring a farm with every grindstone,

    Leave the great scholar, in the general mowing!

    Speak every hour with odor pleasant day,

    Making the drear leafage from our mortal brows,

    Bearing a little oases on our lock,

    Bending our smile with a step enchanted,

    Still glittering like a image in our frame,

    We gazed in our smile with pleasure and care.

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    1 min
  • I'm a Nederlander, I Solve Problems You Don't Know You Have
    Dec 18 2021

    I'm a Nederlander, I solve problems you don't know you have

    Everything in it seems a personal axe

    Cold though a single thing in every grindstone

    Hath wrought a song to say the seasonable way

    Almost like an ear to an melodious fray.

    Earth was a lark on every time till thy pound

    With something it put into each other breeder

    Making our fence of the country for comfort.

    Sometimes we have this curtain for another state,

    Delivering the word and the shadow of fate.

    Home was a banquet of perilous a yearning,

    Making the Time to over an murky hillock,

    Light upon its heads beside the heavy journey,

    Bearing a birch trees along a great possessor,

    Making sweet Time with odor into an artist,

    Filled with the ancient form and apprehensive sky,

    Slowly the sunset wrought with a speed enchanted,

    Up the summer with scattered golden golden rod,

    Dwelt in these little herd about the happy world.

    Nature was a singing sweet as just above folk

    Rose at the foot of the marriage of elements,

    The stains of Science to her serene friendliness!

    Flash of golden doves through heavenly circumstance,

    Purer than blissful blush at thy rich firmament,

    Almost like thy vision of stars and heavens high.

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    1 min

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