World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)
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Length 5 h 21 min
Chapters 119
First published 1904
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
The Poet's Theme: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book I by John Milton Read by Craig Franklin 2:10
2
The Temptation: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton Read by Sonia and 1 other 11:13
3
The Fall: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IX by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 4:06
4
Intercession and Redemption: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 4:53
5
Eve's Lament: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton Read by Sonia 1:45
6
Eve to Adam: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XI by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau 1:14
7
The Departure from Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book XII by John Milton Read by Craig Franklin 1:28
8
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Craig Franklin 2:18
9
The Gifts of God by George Herbert Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:39
10
Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper Read by Leanne Yau 0:47
11
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth Read by Sonia 3:40
12
Self-Inquiry by Isaac Watts Read by Leanne Yau 1:05
13
The Three Enemies by Christina Georgina Rossetti Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:42
14
Said I Not So? by George Herbert Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:42
15
Nothing but Leaves by Lucy E. Akerman Read by Tomas Peter 1:45
16
The World by Frederick William Faber Read by Jason in Panama 3:14
17
The Cry of the Human by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia and 4 others 7:03
18
The Sifting of Peter (A Folk-Song) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Tomas Peter 2:26
19
Vanity by Anonymous Read by Leanne Yau 1:25
20
Different Minds by Richard Chenevix Trench Read by Leanne Yau 1:09
21
My Recovery by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Read by Craig Franklin 2:01
22
The Ladder of Saint Augustine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Craig Franklin 3:05
23
Saint Christopher by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:46
24
Scorn Not the Least by Robert Southwell Read by Craig Franklin 2:05
25
The Right Must Win by Frederick William Faber Read by Jason in Panama 2:03
26
The Cost of Worth: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland Read by Jason in Panama 2:01
27
The Laborer by William D. Gallagher Read by Tomas Peter 2:41
28
A True Lent by Robert Herrick Read by Leanne Yau 1:09
29
From 'The Church Porch' by George Herbert Read by Sonia 3:17
30
Briefs by Richard Crashaw Read by Tomas Peter 1:14
31
Jewish Hymn in Babylon by Henry Hart Milman Read by Jason in Panama 3:42
32
Example by John Keble Read by Leanne Yau 1:10
33
Small Beginnings by Charles Mackay Read by Sonia 2:36
34
The Rise of Man by John White Chadwick Read by Sonia 1:18
35
I Would I Were an Excellent Divine by Nicholas Breton Read by Craig Franklin 2:24
36
The Pastor's Reverie by Washington Gladden Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 4:37
37
The Two Rabbis by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 2 others 5:40
38
Judge Not by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Leanne Yau 1:38
39
To the Unco Guid by Robert Burns Read by Craig Franklin 4:19
40
Stone the Woman, Let the Man Go Free by Anonymous (Frances Marcella Attie O'Brien) Read by Sonia 2:14
41
In Prison by May Riley Smith Read by Sonia 2:58
42
Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:05
43
Found Wanting by Emily Dickinson Read by Leanne Yau 0:44
44
Dallying with Temptation: From the First Part of 'Wallenstein,' Act III. Sc. 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 2:13
45
Easy to Drift by Oliver Huckel Read by Leanne Yau 1:33
46
Frankford's Soliloquy: From 'A Woman Killed with Kindness' by Thomas Heywood Read by Jason in Panama 1:06
47
Conscience: From Satire XIII by Juvenal Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 4:08
48
The Foolish Virgins: From 'Idylls of the King: Guinevere' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:12
49
Up Hill by Christina G. Rossetti Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:29
50
Per Pacem ad Lucem by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Sonia 1:30
51
On his Blindness by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:18
52
The Martyrs' Hymn by Martin Luther Read by Sonia 1:06
53
The Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh Read by Jason in Panama 3:42
54
The Master's Touch by Horatius Bonar Read by Leanne Yau 1:17
55
The Faithful Angel: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book V by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau 1:15
56
Low Spirits by Frederick William Faber Read by Tomas Peter 2:55
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I Saw Thee by Ray Palmer Read by Jason in Panama 2:08
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Losse in Delayes by Robert Southwell Read by Sonia 2:36
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The Seed Growing Secretly by Henry Vaughan Read by Leanne Yau 1:08
60
Patience by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Craig Franklin 2:01
61
Sometime by May Riley Smith Read by Craig Franklin 3:06
62
Father, Thy Will be Done! by Sarah Flower Adams Read by Jason in Panama 1:33
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The Prospect by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Tomas Peter 1:19
64
The Lost Pleiad by William Gilmore Read by Craig Franklin 3:53
65
Passing Away by John Pierpont Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 4:22
66
Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster by Sir Walter Raleigh Read by Leanne Yau 1:02
67
My Ain Countree by Mary Lee Demarest Read by Tomas Peter 2:47
68
Coming by Barbara Miller MacAndrew Read by Sonia and 2 others 5:46
69
Euthanasia by Willis Gaylord Clark Read by Tomas Peter 2:09
70
The Last Man by Thomas Campbell Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 4:20
71
When by Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) Read by Sonia 2:57
72
Burial of Moses by Cecil Frances Alexander Read by Jason in Panama 4:26
73
The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton Read by Tomas Peter 2:13
74
'Only Waiting' by Frances Laughton Mace Read by Jason in Panama 2:00
75
Hopefully Waiting by Anson D.F. Randolph Read by Tomas Peter 3:10
76
Sit Down, Sad Soul by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Leanne Yau 1:28
77
It Kindles All My Soul by Casimir of Poland Read by Tomas Peter 1:34
78
Epilogue by Robert Browning Read by Sonia 1:37
79
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Leanne Yau 1:14
80
The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia 1:29
81
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth Read by Sonia and 4 others 11:29
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Soliloquy: On Immortality (from 'Cato,' Act V. Sc. 1) by Joseph Addison Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:05
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Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 3 others 2:52
84
The Undiscovered Country by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Jason in Panama 1:31
85
Song of the Silent Land by Johann Gaudenz von Salis Read by Jason in Panama 1:32
86
The Other World by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Craig Franklin 2:33
87
Heaven by Emily Dickinson Read by Leanne Yau 0:48
88
Thoughts of Heaven by Robert Nicoll Read by Tomas Peter 3:29
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Nearer Home by Phoebe Cary Read by Jason in Panama 1:36
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Meeting Above by William Leggett Read by Leanne Yau 1:55
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My Days among the Dead by Robert Southey Read by Craig Franklin 1:43
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The Future Life by William Cullen Bryant Read by Jason in Panama 2:39
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Heaven by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 2:33
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The Two Worlds by Mortimer Collins Read by Jason in Panama 3:20
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The Answer by Anonymous Read by Sonia 2:01
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Forever with the Lord by James Montgomery Read by Jason in Panama 2:46
97
To Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint by Jalal ad-Din Rumi Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 1:44
98
Matter and Man Immortal: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night VI by Dr. Edward Young Read by Craig Franklin 3:37
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Life: From 'Festus,' Scene: 'A Country Town' by Philip James Bailey Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:27
100
Heaven by Jeremy Taylor Read by Jason in Panama 1:49
101
The Spirit-Land by Jones Very Read by Sonia 1:19
102
Heaven by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Read by Tomas Peter 1:56
103
Tell Me, Ye Wingèd Winds by Charles Mackay Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:46
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Heaven by Isaac Watts Read by Sonia 1:37
105
Peace by Henry Vaughan Read by Tomas Peter 1:22
106
Star-Mist: From 'Stars' by John Keble Read by Leanne Yau 1:20
107
The Ministry of Angels: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto 8 by Edmund Spenser Read by Tomas Peter 1:43
108
Saint Agnes by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 2:06
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Praise of the Celestial Country by Bernard de Morlaix Read by Sonia and 1 other 10:27
110
The New Jerusalem; or, The Soul's Breathing after the Heavenly Country by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 1 other 12:00
111
Paradise by Frederick William Faber Read by Tomas Peter 3:24
112
Inscription over the Gate: From 'The Divine Comedy: Hell,' Canto III by Dante Alighieri Read by Craig Franklin 1:20
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Prayer: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto VI by Dante Alighieri Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 2:18
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Prayer of Penitents: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XI by Dante Alighieri Read by Jason in Panama 2:12
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Man's Free-Will: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XVI by Dante Alighieri Read by Craig Franklin 1:52
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Fire of Purification: From 'The Divine Comedy: Purgatory,' Canto XXVII by Dante Alighieri Read by Sonia and 3 others 4:23
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Sin and Redemption: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto VII by Dante Alighieri Read by Tomas Peter 4:35
118
The Triumph of Christ: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XIV by Dante Alighieri Read by Sonia 4:07
119
The Saints in Glory: From 'The Divine Comedy: Paradise,' Canto XXXI by Dante Alighieri Read by Craig Franklin 4:10
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