Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of Charles Graves poet and brother of Robert Graves reading Poems With The Classics in Mind. Four of the poems are his original poems "Myrra & Damon" A love poem probably from Greek mythology , "The Pool of Narcissus" is based on the Greek myth of a boy who fell in love with his own reflected image on water who fell in and drowned, "At The Grave of Drummond of Hawthornden" Is a tribute to celebrated 16th Century poet William Drummond,"Mildred" is a love poem not sure of the origin perhaps it was to his wife. The final Poem is his translation "The Glass that Knew Your Weeping" - "Le Miroir Quoi av u Tes" by the 19th Century Swiss Poet Henry Speiss.
n Greek mythology, Narcissus (/nɑrˈsɪsəs/; Greek: Νάρκισσος, Narkissos) was a Hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope.[1] He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus drowned. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself and one's physical appearance.
Charles Ranke Patrick Graves (1 December 1899 – 21 February 1971) was a journalist and writer, and brother of Robert Graves.
He was born in Wimbledon, England. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves (born in Dublin, 22 July 1846) who was a poet of high standing, writing many charming poems and ballads. His mother was Amalie (Amy) Elizabeth Sophie (or Sophia) von Ranke.[1]
He worked on the Sunday Express, Daily Mail and many other newspapers. He published 46 books in all including the Thin Blue Line or Adventures in the RAF. He also wrote a continuation (more than a sequel) called "The Avengers." His hobbies were golf and gin rummy.
Two of his books are of special interest, his Ireland Revisited (1949) and his autobiography The Bad Old Days (1951). In Ireland Revisited he takes the reader on an informative and humorous tour of Ireland.
He begins his autobiography:
"Those were the days, the Bad Old Days – primarily of large families, but also of could look the dollar in the eye without flinching or wincing, when cigarettes were 11d. for 20 and beef was unrationed and champagne was 5s. a bottle."
and he concludes it as follows:
"What is happiness? I did not yet know. But I had already learnt that to have any chance of success in life one must be able to ‘take it’; that tact can be worth all the genius in the world; that unless you specialise you will never make more than £800 a year; that it is madness to disbelieve in luck and the cycles of luck; that you have to spend money to make money; that you must at all costs keep your youthful enthusiasms; that the two greatest influences in a man’s life are his mother and his wife; that marriage will either make you or break you, because it can never leave you the same."
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
Here's a virtual movie of Charles Graves poet and brother of Robert Graves reading Poems With The Classics in Mind. Four of the poems are his original poems "Myrra & Damon" A love poem probably from Greek mythology , "The Pool of Narcissus" is based on the Greek myth of a boy who fell in love with his own reflected image on water who fell in and drowned, "At The Grave of Drummond of Hawthornden" Is a tribute to celebrated 16th Century poet William Drummond,"Mildred" is a love poem not sure of the origin perhaps it was to his wife. The final Poem is his translation "The Glass that Knew Your Weeping" - "Le Miroir Quoi av u Tes" by the 19th Century Swiss Poet Henry Speiss.
n Greek mythology, Narcissus (/nɑrˈsɪsəs/; Greek: Νάρκισσος, Narkissos) was a Hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope.[1] He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus drowned. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself and one's physical appearance.
Charles Ranke Patrick Graves (1 December 1899 – 21 February 1971) was a journalist and writer, and brother of Robert Graves.
He was born in Wimbledon, England. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves (born in Dublin, 22 July 1846) who was a poet of high standing, writing many charming poems and ballads. His mother was Amalie (Amy) Elizabeth Sophie (or Sophia) von Ranke.[1]
He worked on the Sunday Express, Daily Mail and many other newspapers. He published 46 books in all including the Thin Blue Line or Adventures in the RAF. He also wrote a continuation (more than a sequel) called "The Avengers." His hobbies were golf and gin rummy.
Two of his books are of special interest, his Ireland Revisited (1949) and his autobiography The Bad Old Days (1951). In Ireland Revisited he takes the reader on an informative and humorous tour of Ireland.
He begins his autobiography:
"Those were the days, the Bad Old Days – primarily of large families, but also of could look the dollar in the eye without flinching or wincing, when cigarettes were 11d. for 20 and beef was unrationed and champagne was 5s. a bottle."
and he concludes it as follows:
"What is happiness? I did not yet know. But I had already learnt that to have any chance of success in life one must be able to ‘take it’; that tact can be worth all the genius in the world; that unless you specialise you will never make more than £800 a year; that it is madness to disbelieve in luck and the cycles of luck; that you have to spend money to make money; that you must at all costs keep your youthful enthusiasms; that the two greatest influences in a man’s life are his mother and his wife; that marriage will either make you or break you, because it can never leave you the same."
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
