World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
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Length 8 h 59 min
Chapters 132
First published 1904
The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson Read by Sonia and 4 others 34:29
2
Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland Read by Tomas Peter 6:52
3
Ideality by Hartley Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 1:18
4
Fancy by John Keats Read by Jason in Panama 4:31
5
Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:11
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Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 3:04
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Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick Read by Craig Franklin 3:13
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Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
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Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 1:48
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The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:56
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Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph Read by Jason in Panama 1:09
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The Fairies by William Allingham Read by Tomas Peter 2:40
13
Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg Read by Sonia and 4 others 17:17
14
The Fairy Child by John Anster Read by Jason in Panama 1:55
15
Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:39
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The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake Read by Sonia and 4 others 34:05
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Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly Read by Leanne Yau 1:30
18
Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 3:23
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Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Craig Franklin 1:13
20
The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:15
21
The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo Read by Sonia 5:10
22
The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau 3:55
23
The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 8:39
24
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns Read by Sonia 11:52
25
The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine Read by Jason in Panama 1:26
26
The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 2:01
27
The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne Read by Leanne Yau 1:20
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The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold Read by Sonia and 2 others 7:33
29
The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow Read by Leanne Yau 1:16
30
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:46
31
A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 2:00
32
The Comet by Charles Sangster Read by Craig Franklin 3:16
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The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan Read by Sonia and 3 others 9:49
34
The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 7:32
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The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston Read by Sonia 1:51
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Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia and 2 others 8:28
37
Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser Read by Leanne Yau 4:12
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Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 3:54
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The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spenser Read by Jason in Panama 4:38
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The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser Read by Craig Franklin 1:35
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The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 16:20
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Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Sonia 1:20
43
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 3 others 8:37
44
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Sonia and 4 others 33:49
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Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Sonia and 1 other 5:59
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Sonia and 1 other 8:35
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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Tomas Peter 5:24
48
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Sonia 2:35
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The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller Read by Sonia 2:04
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The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly Read by Craig Franklin 3:05
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning Read by Sonia and 4 others 16:39
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Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne Read by Leanne Yau 1:18
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A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone Read by Leanne Yau 1:17
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Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges Read by Leanne Yau 1:27
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Sherwood by Alfred Noyes Read by Jason in Panama 4:16
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Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson Read by Sonia 2:02
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Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young Read by Tomas Peter 4:11
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To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson Read by Sonia 1:24
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Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore Read by Tomas Peter 1:13
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Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young Read by Leanne Yau 3:06
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Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson Read by Sonia 1:49
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The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon Read by Tomas Peter 2:10
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The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare Read by Craig Franklin 1:24
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The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson Read by Jason in Panama 3:02
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The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 3:35
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A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:26
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What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman Read by Tomas Peter 3:38
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The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch Read by Leanne Yau 2:38
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The Making of Man by John White Chadwick Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
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The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:00
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Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám Read by Sonia and 4 others 24:52
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Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift Read by Craig Franklin 0:43
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This Life by William Drummond Read by Sonia 1:01
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The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton Read by Jason in Panama 1:44
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Retribution by Friedrich von Logau Read by Tomas Peter 0:53
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The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh Read by Craig Franklin 3:31
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The Generous Air by Palladas Read by Leanne Yau 1:03
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Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson Read by Sonia 0:59
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Life by Richard Henry Wilde Read by Leanne Yau 1:41
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Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough Read by Tomas Peter 2:10
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Life by George Herbert Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
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Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:23
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The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland Read by Craig Franklin 1:38
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History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Read by Craig Franklin 1:25
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My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel Read by Jason in Panama 1:00
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Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith Read by Sonia 5:17
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London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly Read by Craig Franklin 2:06
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The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant Read by Sonia 2:50
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L'Allegro by John Milton Read by Jason in Panama 7:36
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Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith) Read by Craig Franklin 2:01
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The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith Read by Tomas Peter 1:40
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The Epicure by Anacreon Read by Craig Franklin 2:16
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The Indian Weed by Anonymous Read by Jason in Panama 1:30
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Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine Read by Craig Franklin 1:30
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Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio Read by Jason in Panama 0:51
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Il Penseroso by John Milton Read by Tomas Peter 9:02
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Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:56
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The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney Read by Jason in Panama 2:18
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The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge Read by Craig Franklin 6:12
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Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia 1:48
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Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne Read by Tomas Peter 2:31
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Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Leanne Yau 1:22
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Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck Read by Leanne Yau 2:00
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Opportunity by William Blake Read by Sonia 0:50
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Opportunity by John James Ingalls Read by Leanne Yau 1:23
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Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky Read by Sonia 2:03
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Augury by Edith M. Thomas Read by Craig Franklin 1:17
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'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette Read by Tomas Peter 2:41
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A Tear by Samuel Rogers Read by Tomas Peter 1:47
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The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 3:47
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The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:44
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At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton Read by Leanne Yau 1:34
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A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier Read by Craig Franklin 1:17
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Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson Read by Sonia 1:20
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Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller Read by Tomas Peter 1:40
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A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller Read by Jason in Panama 1:19
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Yussouf by James Russell Lowell Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:33
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Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser Read by Sonia 2:35
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Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius Read by Craig Franklin 1:55
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Fortune by Sophocles Read by Jason in Panama 1:00
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Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia 2:20
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Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci Read by Craig Franklin 1:03
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The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:33
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Growing Gray by Austin Dobson Read by Tomas Peter 2:01
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Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 1:02
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Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 4:03
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The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale Read by Sonia and 2 others 7:02
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Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller Read by Sonia 1:16
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The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope Read by Sonia and 4 others 3:53
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The Will by Dr. John Donne Read by Tomas Peter 3:56
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To a Skeleton by Anonymous Read by Jason in Panama 2:53
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The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar Read by Craig Franklin 2:36
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