The Wind: A Monologue
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Be in me as the eternal moods of the bleak wind and not as transient things are, |
| 0:09.0 | gaiety of flowers. |
| 0:13.0 | Have me in the strong loneliness of sunless cliffs and of gray waters. |
| 0:19.0 | Let the God speak softly of us in days hereafter. |
| 0:23.6 | The shadowy flowers of Orcus remember thee. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to the wind RON in the shadow |
| 0:42.3 | Listen to the wind blow, |
| 0:44.3 | Run in the Shadow, |
| 0:46.3 | The Shadow of Entitled Opinions, |
| 0:48.3 | where Cerberus has no dominion, |
| 0:50.3 | and thought moves unfettered. |
| 0:57.2 | I saw you toss the kites on high and blow the birds about the sky, |
| 1:00.9 | and I'lleser the vent beaigne my tte new. |
| 1:05.9 | Storms on the stone cliffs beaten, |
| 1:09.1 | fell on the stern and icy feathers, |
| 1:11.6 | full off the eagle screamed with spray on his pinion. |
| 1:16.6 | I am the wind, I blow from without, I blow from within, |
| 1:22.6 | bearing seafarers of the soul pass the straits of sin. |
| 1:28.3 | Let's begin then with our comrade of the sea, Joseph Conrad. |
| 1:34.3 | There is no part of the world of coasts, continents, oceans, seas, straits, capes, and islands |
| 1:42.3 | which are not under the sway of a raining wind. |
| 1:47.6 | As a ruler, the east wind has a remarkable stability. |
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