Read Aloud Poetry for Peace/Calm/Meditation - Inland, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Channel: Twin Fawn Audio
Date: 2022-01-20

Join me as I read aloud "Inland" by American lyrical poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. 

For meditation, mindfulness, serenity, calm and peace.

Recorded and produced by voiceover artist Becky Chase.

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Transcript:

People that build their houses inland,
   People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
   Far from the sea-board, far from the sound

Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
   Tons of water striking the shore,—
What do they long for, as I long for
   One salt smell of the sea once more?

People the waves have not awakened,
   Spanking the boats at the harbour's head,
What do they long for, as I long for,—
   Starting up in my inland bed,

Beating the narrow walls, and finding
   Neither a window nor a door,
Screaming to God for death by drowning,—
   One salt taste of the sea once more?