World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
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Length 5 h 10 min
Chapters 125
First published 1904
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Leanne Yau 1:35
2
Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow Read by Tomas Peter 2:20
3
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley Read by Jason in Panama 0:57
4
Riding Down by Nora Perry Read by Leanne Yau 2:13
5
A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin Read by Leanne Yau 1:20
6
In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Sonia 1:47
7
Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper Read by Jason in Panama 1:02
8
To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson Read by Craig Franklin 2:46
9
The School Girl by William Henry Venable Read by Jason in Panama 2:22
10
Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Tomas Peter 2:52
11
To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth Read by Craig Franklin 4:22
12
Ruth by Thomas Hood Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
13
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 3:38
14
Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English Read by Craig Franklin 2:29
15
Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
16
Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse Read by Sonia 4:43
17
My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris Read by Craig Franklin 1:48
18
To the Virgins by Robert Herrick Read by Sonia 1:12
19
Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 1:11
20
The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley Read by Craig Franklin 1:10
21
Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous Read by Sonia 3:39
22
To Thaliarchus by Horace Read by Sonia 1:41
23
A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck Read by Leanne Yau 1:18
24
Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck Read by Jason in Panama 1:26
25
Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim Read by Tomas Peter 1:41
26
Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 6:08
27
The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 2:39
28
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray Read by Sonia 5:06
29
Spring Song by Bliss Carman Read by Leanne Yau 4:41
30
Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Read by Jason in Panama 2:43
31
The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman Read by Tomas Peter 4:00
32
Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Jason in Panama 1:27
33
The Heritage by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia 3:30
34
To Youth by Walter Savage Landor Read by Sonia 1:18
35
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Jason in Panama 4:56
36
Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 1:23
37
The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard Read by Sonia 1:05
38
Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia 1:26
39
Home by Leonidas Read by Tomas Peter 0:56
40
The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Leanne Yau 2:01
41
The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney Read by Jason in Panama 1:00
42
Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton Read by Craig Franklin 6:04
43
The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans Read by Leanne Yau 1:53
44
The Auld House by Lady Nairne Read by Tomas Peter 4:21
45
The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Craig Franklin 2:06
46
If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith Read by Craig Franklin 2:36
47
The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:59
48
The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:54
49
Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith Read by Jason in Panama 2:37
50
The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats Read by Tomas Peter 1:21
51
Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Read by Leanne Yau 2:56
52
The Children by Charles M. Dickinson Read by Jason in Panama 3:30
53
Not One to Spare by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:03
54
Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow Read by Jason in Panama 1:58
55
I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore Read by Tomas Peter 1:30
56
The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee Read by Craig Franklin 1:19
57
By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom Read by Leanne Yau 3:09
58
My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton Read by Craig Franklin 2:24
59
A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia 3:33
60
The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner Read by Craig Franklin 1:45
61
The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns Read by Sonia and 1 other 11:50
62
A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Tomas Peter 6:15
63
Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor Read by Jason in Panama 1:07
64
The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Read by Craig Franklin 1:23
65
Homeward Bound by Catullus Read by Sonia 1:23
66
The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman Read by Tomas Peter 1:16
67
The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Craig Franklin 3:11
68
A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:48
69
In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland Read by Leanne Yau 1:45
70
Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 1:20
71
A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 2:02
72
The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard Read by Sonia 2:39
73
The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Tomas Peter 3:03
74
When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell Read by Sonia 3:50
75
Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott Read by Leanne Yau 1:42
76
Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy Read by Tomas Peter 2:04
77
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia 2:33
78
Christmas by George Wither Read by Tomas Peter 4:33
79
The Auld Folks by Andrew Park Read by Tomas Peter 1:29
80
A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Leanne Yau 1:06
81
Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne Read by Jason in Panama 2:10
82
Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Leanne Yau 1:06
83
Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young Read by Craig Franklin 3:27
84
Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 3:37
85
Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Read by Sonia 1:16
86
Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 1:22
87
Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia and 2 others 1:41
88
The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster Read by Leanne Yau 1:09
89
A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke Read by Leanne Yau 1:15
90
Parted Friends by James Montgomery Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
91
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
92
Jaffar by Leigh Hunt Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:45
93
The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:30
94
We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Read by Leanne Yau 1:19
95
Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer Read by Craig Franklin 1:03
96
We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll Read by Jason in Panama 2:19
97
Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer Read by Jason in Panama 2:45
98
Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Tomas Peter 2:19
99
When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:21
100
Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt Read by Jason in Panama 0:48
101
Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 1:27
102
The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 4 others 4:31
103
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns Read by Craig Franklin 4:51
104
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 2:54
105
We Love but Few by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 1:41
106
The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Tomas Peter 2:31
107
A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 1:34
108
Platonic by William B. Terrett Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 3:26
109
Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges) Read by Craig Franklin 0:46
110
The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Jason in Panama 3:20
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The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Tomas Peter 4:05
112
The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:32
113
Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 7:32
114
Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman Read by Leanne Yau 1:21
115
Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore Read by Tomas Peter 2:06
116
A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger Read by Craig Franklin 2:52
117
The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Sonia 1:54
118
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:50
119
The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus Read by Sonia 1:08
120
Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington Read by Craig Franklin 0:57
121
To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper Read by Jason in Panama 4:27
122
Advice by William Dunbar Read by Craig Franklin 1:38
123
The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald Read by Jason in Panama 2:18
124
Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain Read by Sonia 1:54
125
Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns Read by Sonia and 4 others 3:59
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