World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
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Length 6 h 28 min
Chapters 158
First published 1904
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts Read by Sonia and 4 others 12:29
2
Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Leanne Yau 3:34
3
On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling Read by Sonia 1:32
4
God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning Read by Craig Franklin 4:02
5
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth Read by Tomas Peter 0:57
6
Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Jason in Panama 3:09
7
The Country Faith by Norman Gale Read by Tomas Peter 1:01
8
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Read by Craig Franklin 9:43
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Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder Read by Sonia 1:41
10
Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
11
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray Read by Tomas Peter 2:52
12
Nature by Jones Very Read by Jason in Panama 1:18
13
Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth Read by Craig Franklin 4:11
14
An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats Read by Leanne Yau 1:52
15
The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth Read by Tomas Peter 2:07
16
Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:45
17
The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey Read by Leanne Yau 5:26
18
Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton Read by Tomas Peter 3:55
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Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton Read by Craig Franklin 1:03
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Light by George MacDonald Read by Jason in Panama 3:58
21
The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor Read by Leanne Yau 0:50
22
From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley Read by Craig Franklin 3:41
23
Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:37
24
Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder Read by Leanne Yau 2:11
25
Morning Song by Joanna Baillie Read by Tomas Peter 1:33
26
Morning by John Cunningham Read by Tomas Peter 2:14
27
Pack Clouds Away by Thomas Heywood Read by Leanne Yau 1:23
28
Morning: From 'The Minstrel' by James Beattie Read by Craig Franklin 1:32
29
Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge Read by Sonia 1:26
30
The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Read by Craig Franklin 1:34
31
A Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur Read by Jason in Panama 2:26
32
Noontide by John Leyden Read by Sonia 1:31
33
A Summer Noon by William Howitt Read by Leanne Yau 1:52
34
The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert Tannahill Read by Tomas Peter 1:26
35
Sunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Leanne Yau 2:17
36
Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Craig Franklin 1:25
37
Day Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) Read by Tomas Peter 1:46
38
The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott Read by Sonia and 2 others 1:35
39
Evening by Archibald Lampman Read by Jason in Panama 1:20
40
A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale Read by Craig Franklin 2:00
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To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell Read by Leanne Yau 1:16
42
The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant Read by Sonia 3:18
43
Evening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau 1:18
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Evening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron Read by Tomas Peter 3:51
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Moonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:16
46
To Delia by Samuel Daniel Read by Craig Franklin 1:16
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The Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by Homer Read by Jason in Panama 1:47
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To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:13
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Night by Joseph Blanco White Read by Sonia 1:25
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Night: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 3:09
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Night: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Leanne Yau 2:47
52
Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia 1:50
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In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. Roberts Read by Craig Franklin 1:27
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A Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James Thomson Read by Tomas Peter 7:52
55
March by William Morris Read by Sonia and 2 others 1:57
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When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Tomas Peter 3:57
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March by William Wordsworth Read by Sonia 1:09
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Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
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Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard Read by Craig Franklin 1:43
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Spring by Thomas Gray Read by Jason in Panama 2:47
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Summer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthy Read by Tomas Peter 3:54
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Sweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas Carew Read by Jason in Panama 1:36
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Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning Read by Leanne Yau 1:35
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May Morning by Celia Thaxter Read by Sonia 2:23
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Song (On May Morning) by John Milton Read by Jason in Panama 1:04
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Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 2:45
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Spring by Ebenezer Elliott Read by Leanne Yau 1:21
68
Die Down, O Dismal Day by David Gray Read by Jason in Panama 1:21
69
Morning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:50
70
Cuckoo Song by Anonymous Read by Sonia 1:11
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Spring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 2:32
72
Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Leanne Yau 2:15
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The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Jason in Panama 4:14
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The Plough by Richard Hengist Horne Read by Craig Franklin 1:22
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They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell Read by Tomas Peter 3:43
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Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley Read by Leanne Yau 1:36
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A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell Read by Jason in Panama 2:24
78
June by William Cullen Bryant Read by Sonia 2:51
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The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume Read by Jason in Panama 6:15
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Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Tomas Peter 4:20
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Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley Read by Tomas Peter 2:15
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Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett Read by Leanne Yau 1:21
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Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia 4:10
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Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Sonia 1:04
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Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner Read by Leanne Yau 3:27
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Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell Read by Tomas Peter 5:41
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After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Jason in Panama 1:01
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A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Craig Franklin 2:15
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Rain by Ebenezer Jones Read by Leanne Yau 1:44
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The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies Read by Sonia 2:27
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Wicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-Armstrong Read by Craig Franklin 1:47
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Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Tomas Peter 5:24
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The Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 2:55
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The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Leanne Yau 4:36
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Summer Moods by John Clare Read by Sonia 1:21
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In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton Read by Tomas Peter 3:32
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The Angler's Wish by Izaak Walton Read by Jason in Panama 1:47
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The Angler by John Chalkhill Read by Craig Franklin 2:02
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Swimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord Byron Read by Jason in Panama 1:28
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The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana Read by Jason in Panama 3:18
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The Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. Roberts Read by Tomas Peter 2:50
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September by George Arnold Read by Craig Franklin 2:20
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The Latter Rain by Jones Very Read by Jason in Panama 1:15
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To Autumn by John Keats Read by Tomas Peter 2:34
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Harvest Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty Read by Sonia 1:26
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Life in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton Cooke Read by Leanne Yau 4:50
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Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott Read by Craig Franklin 1:46
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The Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Tomas Peter 2:41
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The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William Browne Read by Sonia 1:38
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A Hunting We Will Go by Henry Fielding Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 2:00
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The Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 7:27
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The Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James Thomson Read by Jason in Panama 2:29
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The Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Read by Craig Franklin 3:40
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Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb Read by Jason in Panama 0:47
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No! by Thomas Hood Read by Leanne Yau 1:22
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When the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Tomas Peter 2:20
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Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Tomas Peter 1:48
118
When Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
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Winter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias Claudius Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 1:59
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Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas Read by Jason in Panama 1:19
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Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia 1:23
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December by Joel Benton Read by Craig Franklin 1:27
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Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:07
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The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Tomas Peter 2:14
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The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald Read by Craig Franklin 1:18
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The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant Read by Leanne Yau 3:23
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'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Read by Leanne Yau 1:24
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A Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage Eastman Read by Sonia 4:48
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Winter by John Howard Bryant Read by Craig Franklin 1:36
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Winter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James Thomson Read by Leanne Yau 2:58
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Winter Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty Read by Tomas Peter 1:33
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Winter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William Cowper Read by Jason in Panama 4:10
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Sleigh Song by G.W. Pettee Read by Sonia 1:35
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Our Skater Belle by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 1:42
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O Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David Gray Read by Jason in Panama 1:19
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A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald Read by Sonia 1:57
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The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant Read by Sonia 2:29
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Song of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 2:44
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The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms Read by Leanne Yau 3:41
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A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 1:12
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The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill Read by Craig Franklin 3:02
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Song of the River by Charles Kingsley Read by Jason in Panama 1:57
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Afton Water by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 4:14
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The Snows by Charles Sangster Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 2:02
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My River by Eduard Mörike Read by Leanne Yau 3:27
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On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles Read by Sonia 1:18
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Oxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold Read by Craig Franklin 1:32
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The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Read by Jason in Panama 1:38
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To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival Read by Tomas Peter 1:53
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The Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia 1:42
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats Read by Tomas Peter 1:39
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Calm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Read by Jason in Panama 2:06
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The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster Read by Sonia 1:23
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Storm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 1:43
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Dover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:21
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Choral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by Euripides Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:38
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An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers Read by Craig Franklin 1:21
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From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Sonia 1:43
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