World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)
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Length 6 h 21 min
Chapters 152
First published 1904
This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
To Myself by Paul Fleming Read by Lian Pang 1:07
2
The Flower by George Herbert Read by Gaby 3:17
3
Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton Read by Sonia 1:13
4
Invictus by William Ernest Henley Read by Sonia 1:07
5
Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle Read by Tomas Peter 5:54
6
Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Read by Sonia 1:17
7
My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson Read by Tomas Peter 2:37
8
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Gaby 1:33
9
Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell Read by Lian Pang 1:47
10
Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch Read by Gaby 3:08
11
The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart Read by Sonia 4:48
12
Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson Read by Tomas Peter 2:00
13
Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough Read by Lian Pang 1:15
14
God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick Read by Lian Pang 1:42
15
Sonnet by Louise Labé Read by Lian Pang 1:06
16
Waiting by John Burroughs Read by Sonia 1:25
17
Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett Read by Tomas Peter 3:19
18
Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine Read by Tomas Peter 1:42
19
Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt Read by Gaby 1:03
20
I Hold Still by Julius Sturm Read by Gaby 2:29
21
The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Sonia 1:15
22
When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette Read by Gaby 3:04
23
Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien Read by Sonia 1:30
24
The Saddest Fate by Anonymous Read by Sonia 1:31
25
The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood Read by Tomas Peter 3:35
26
Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Gaby 1:46
27
Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Gaby 3:00
28
Sic Vita by Henry King Read by Sonia 1:02
29
Death the Leveller by James Shirley Read by Lian Pang 1:30
30
Virtue Immortal by George Herbert Read by Gaby 1:48
31
Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell Read by Lian Pang 1:32
32
Mortality by William Knox Read by Sonia 3:34
33
The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans Read by Gaby 3:31
34
The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Read by Lian Pang 0:38
35
A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron Read by Gaby 3:00
36
The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge Read by Tomas Peter 2:20
37
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Read by Lian Pang 4:55
38
A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill Read by Gaby 1:52
39
Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Lian Pang 1:23
40
The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias Read by Lian Pang 0:50
41
Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous Read by Gaby 1:00
42
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont Read by Tomas Peter 1:16
43
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray Read by Tomas Peter 8:10
44
God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Lian Pang 1:33
45
Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing Read by Tomas Peter 1:44
46
The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell Read by Sonia 1:22
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Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy Read by Lian Pang 1:03
48
The Dead by Mathilde Blind Read by Gaby 1:39
49
On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers Read by Gaby 1:10
50
The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie Read by Tomas Peter 2:12
51
The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin Read by Lian Pang 2:09
52
The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia 2:03
53
The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell Read by Gaby 3:43
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The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson Read by Sonia 1:04
55
Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster Read by Gaby 3:54
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Jim's Kids by Eugene Field Read by Tomas Peter 2:44
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The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Gaby 14:38
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On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald Read by Lian Pang 2:11
59
Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay Read by Sonia 1:18
60
Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Read by Tomas Peter 1:26
61
The Death-bed by Thomas Hood Read by Sonia 1:02
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A Death-bed by James Aldrich Read by Lian Pang 0:45
63
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold Read by Tomas Peter 1:10
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'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) Read by Sonia 2:11
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Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott Read by Gaby 1:57
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Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning Read by Tomas Peter 3:21
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Tomas Peter 2:13
68
Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan Read by Lian Pang 2:18
69
Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 2:50
70
Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Lian Pang 1:16
71
She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery Read by Gaby 1:29
72
The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia and 3 others 4:58
73
Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia 6:08
74
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 1:29
75
Highland Mary by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 1:49
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Fair Helen by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 2:09
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Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 4:15
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Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Lian Pang 1:36
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After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston Read by Gaby 2:15
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Lament for Heliodore by Meleager Read by Tomas Peter 1:22
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On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre Read by Sonia 1:25
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To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 2:09
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Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton Read by Lian Pang 2:40
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The Passage by Ludwig Uhland Read by Sonia 1:32
85
Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin Read by Tomas Peter 2:35
86
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 1:10
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The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton Read by Tomas Peter 2:34
88
Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 1:48
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Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 3 others 8:34
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Après by Arthur Joseph Munby Read by Tomas Peter 1:41
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The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans Read by Tomas Peter 2:07
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Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 1:06
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Lavender by Anonymous Read by Gaby 3:26
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What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne Read by Sonia 1:31
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Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott Read by Gaby 1:50
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When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman Read by Tomas Peter 16:14
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If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith Read by Sonia 2:03
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Awakening by Washington Gladden Read by Lian Pang 3:14
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Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar Read by Lian Pang 2:10
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The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne Read by Tomas Peter 1:13
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Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle Read by Tomas Peter 2:37
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Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson Read by Sonia 2:47
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Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood Read by Gaby 1:41
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For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Tomas Peter 3:24
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Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown Read by Sonia 1:15
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The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Lian Pang 2:31
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Prospice by Robert Browning Read by Gaby 2:20
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I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg Read by Lian Pang 3:18
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Farewell by Walter Savage Landor Read by Lian Pang 0:37
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Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland Read by Sonia 1:08
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To Death by Gluck Read by Gaby 2:16
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Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett Read by Lian Pang 2:23
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Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland Read by Gaby 1:39
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In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Tomas Peter 2:08
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Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr Read by Sonia 1:15
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Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld Read by Lian Pang 1:54
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The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Lian Pang 1:38
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They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan Read by Lian Pang 2:23
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The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr Read by Sonia 2:08
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Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest Read by Gaby 3:55
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Grief for the Dead by Anonymous Read by Lian Pang 1:42
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The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick Read by Gaby 2:55
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For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer Read by Tomas Peter 4:22
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Watching for Papa by Anonymous Read by Tomas Peter 1:27
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My Child by John Pierpont Read by Gaby 4:22
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Song by Richard Le Gallienne Read by Gaby 1:03
127
The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Lian Pang 1:30
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'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Lian Pang 2:01
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Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant Read by Lian Pang 1:27
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De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Tomas Peter 5:27
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Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Read by Sonia 1:33
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Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Sonia 2:57
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Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Read by Lian Pang 1:05
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In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Tomas Peter 1:39
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Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Gaby 1:48
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Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Lian Pang 2:39
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Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Read by Sonia 1:44
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Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Lian Pang 1:10
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The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold Read by Sonia 4:18
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Peace by Anonymous Read by Lian Pang 1:05
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Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Gaby 3:08
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Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan Read by Sonia 2:45
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The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston Read by Sonia 0:56
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The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant Read by Gaby 5:38
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Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber Read by Lian Pang 1:28
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Lycidas by John Milton Read by Tomas Peter 11:12
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After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold Read by Tomas Peter 4:04
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It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune Read by Gaby 1:39
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There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery Read by Gaby 4:19
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Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks Read by Sonia 1:47
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Blind by Israel Zangwill Read by Gaby 1:59
152
The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia 1:29
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