World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)
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Length 6 h 6 min
Chapters 124
First published 1904
The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott Read by Sonia and 3 others 30:31
2
Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 3:26
3
Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 2:19
4
Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton) Read by Lian Pang 1:34
5
The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Read by Sonia 1:14
6
Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang and 1 other 1:27
7
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood Read by Gaby 2:34
8
The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:46
9
Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney Read by Lian Pang 1:23
10
Agatha by Alfred Austin Read by Sonia 2:01
11
The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson Read by Lian Pang 3:48
12
Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 16:28
13
Song by Sir Walter Scott Read by Lian Pang 1:12
14
Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard Read by Tomas Peter 3:27
15
To a Portrait by Arthur Symons Read by Lian Pang 1:05
16
Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Gaby 6:35
17
The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine Read by Gaby 1:22
18
Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle Read by Sonia 6:08
19
Waly, Waly by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 3:27
20
Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous Read by Lian Pang 3:18
21
My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell Read by Tomas Peter 3:34
22
Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman Read by Lian Pang 0:54
23
A Woman's Love by John Hay Read by Lian Pang 2:30
24
The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers Read by Gaby 0:55
25
Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy Read by Gaby 2:05
26
The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham Read by Sonia 4:19
27
Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell Read by Tomas Peter 8:10
28
Divided by Jean Ingelow Read by Gaby 8:18
29
To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot Read by Gaby 1:16
30
The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) Read by Sonia 1:22
31
Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Read by Gaby 1:38
32
Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton Read by Lian Pang 1:52
33
Time's Revenge by Agathias Read by Sonia 0:58
34
The Dream by Lord Byron Read by Gaby 12:44
35
Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore Read by Gaby 2:43
36
Blighted Love by Luís de Camões Read by Lian Pang 1:14
37
The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Read by Tomas Peter 1:13
38
The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith) Read by Gaby 5:26
39
Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Lian Pang 4:54
40
Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge Read by Gaby 7:22
41
The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford Read by Sonia 2:01
42
Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux Read by Lian Pang 1:15
43
Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler Read by Lian Pang 0:48
44
Parting by Coventry Patmore Read by Sonia 1:15
45
To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace Read by Tomas Peter 0:57
46
Good-bye by Anonymous Read by Gaby 2:13
47
Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 2:11
48
O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:34
49
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron Read by Gaby 2:04
50
Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter 2:01
51
Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay Read by Gaby 3:24
52
The Parting Lovers by Anonymous Read by Sonia 1:01
53
Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay Read by Tomas Peter 2:11
54
As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore Read by Gaby 2:13
55
Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough Read by Sonia 1:52
56
Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron Read by Gaby 1:21
57
Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron Read by Tomas Peter 2:58
58
Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton Read by Sonia 1:18
59
Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare Read by Gaby 1:36
60
Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford Read by Lian Pang 1:32
61
We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford Read by Lian Pang 1:46
62
Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell Read by Gaby 1:54
63
Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell Read by Gaby 1:53
64
Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:53
65
Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer Read by Sonia and 2 others 8:44
66
Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer Read by Tomas Peter 1:55
67
To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace Read by Lian Pang 1:21
68
To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia 2:27
69
I Love My Jean by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:12
70
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell Read by Tomas Peter 4:39
71
O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:23
72
The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir Read by Tomas Peter 2:18
73
Absence by Frances Anne Kemble Read by Lian Pang 2:17
74
Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel Read by Sonia 1:50
75
Daisy by Francis Thompson Read by Gaby 3:26
76
Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) Read by Sonia 1:49
77
What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire Read by Tomas Peter 1:42
78
Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang 1:21
79
Absence by Anonymous Read by Lian Pang 0:43
80
Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) Read by Sonia 1:19
81
"Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Lian Pang 1:44
82
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb Read by Tomas Peter 1:54
83
Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan Read by Gaby 3:18
84
The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous Read by Sonia 1:49
85
My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster Read by Lian Pang 2:44
86
Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster Read by Lian Pang 2:12
87
The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper Read by Sonia 0:40
88
Man by Walter Savage Landor Read by Lian Pang 0:37
89
The World by Francis, Lord Bacon Read by Sonia 1:45
90
Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele Read by Sonia 1:24
91
The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles Read by Tomas Peter 2:34
92
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare Read by Lian Pang 1:23
93
The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus Read by Sonia 2:51
94
Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton Read by Lian Pang 1:28
95
Lines by Chidiock Tichborne Read by Gaby 1:50
96
Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher Read by Lian Pang 1:21
97
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 3:50
98
The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe Read by Sonia 1:59
99
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Gaby 3:11
100
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats Read by Tomas Peter 5:29
101
Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter Read by Sonia 1:16
102
Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron Read by Sonia 2:15
103
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Lian Pang 1:41
104
The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Sonia 1:30
105
A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Tomas Peter 0:57
106
"What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood Read by Gaby 1:36
107
Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton Read by Gaby 7:31
108
Old by Ralph Hoyt Read by Tomas Peter 7:20
109
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Gaby 2:27
110
The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Read by Sonia 1:02
111
The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger Read by Sonia 2:41
112
The Beggar by Thomas Moss Read by Tomas Peter 2:51
113
A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley Read by Gaby 5:08
114
"They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 2:24
115
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards Read by Lian Pang 2:51
116
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood Read by Lian Pang 3:48
117
The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel Read by Sonia 2:18
118
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis Read by Tomas Peter 1:51
119
Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson Read by Sonia 3:30
120
London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) Read by Lian Pang 1:33
121
The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood Read by Gaby 4:39
122
Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 3:09
123
The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Read by Gaby 4:39
124
Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia 1:15
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