Cylinder of the Month

Enjoy this recording of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Bridge" - written some time in the 1840s - condensed and put to music by Miss M. Lindsay.

Typical of many two-minute wax cylinders, there was only enough recording time for just the first verse of Lindsay's two-verse condensation (see below) – leaving the work in a decidedly melancholy tone.

To hear I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight  — For help playing these sounds, click here.

To learn more:

• See the sheet music to "I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight", courtesy of the Lester S. Levy collection of sheet music.
• Read a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and
• See the complete text of his poem "The Bridge", courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

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— This cylinder of the month is from the collection of  Leo Kimmett —

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