O Hollow Hollow Hollow


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012.

Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it than the poet himself:

BUNTHORNE. It is a wild, weird, fleshy thing; yet very tender, very
yearning, very precious. It is called, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow!
Hollow!"
PATIENCE Is it a hunting song?
BUNTHORNE. A hunting song? No, it is not a hunting song. It is the
wail of the poet's heart on discovering that everything is
commonplace. To understand it, cling passionately to one another
and think of faint lilies.

Bunthorne was considered to have been modelled on Oscar Wilde, but more recent research has suggested that this claim is not correct. ( Summary by Algy Pug ) (0 hr 22 min)

Chapitres

O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by BG 1:27 Lu par Bob Gonzalez
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by CM 1:02 Lu par Christopher Maust
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by DL 1:17 Lu par David Lawrence
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by FS 1:16 Lu par fshort
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by GHS 1:16 Lu par Algy Pug
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by JLS 1:16 Lu par Jessica Louise
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by KG 1:12 Lu par Kristin G.
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by KMW 1:25 Lu par kelleywyskiel
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by LAH 1:15 Lu par Lee Ann Howlett
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by LLW 1:32 Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by MC 1:17 Lu par Mona Curtis
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by MG 1:36 Lu par Martin Geeson
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by NLB 1:18 Lu par NoelBadrian
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by REF 1:15 Lu par Rhonda Federman
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by RN 1:23 Lu par ravenotation
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by TRM 1:27 Lu par Thom
O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by XYB 1:14 Lu par Pascal Ramseier