World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
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Length 4 h 18 min
Chapters 112
First published 1904
The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers Read by Leanne Yau 2:45
2
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Read by Tomas Peter 1:14
3
Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Tomas Peter 2:17
4
Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge Read by Sonia 2:21
5
A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter Read by Leanne Yau 1:35
6
The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice Read by Craig Franklin 5:25
7
Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci Read by Jason in Panama 1:27
8
There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates Read by Leanne Yau 1:18
9
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper Read by Tomas Peter 3:45
10
Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by Sonia 1:42
11
Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:35
12
On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau Read by Craig Franklin 2:47
13
'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth Read by Leanne Yau 1:05
14
The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 4:49
15
Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius Read by Leanne Yau 0:44
16
The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth Read by Jason in Panama 1:22
17
Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch Read by Sonia 2:03
18
Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón Read by Tomas Peter 2:18
19
My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer Read by Sonia 4:29
20
To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial Read by Craig Franklin 1:28
21
Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux Read by Jason in Panama 1:48
22
A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats Read by Craig Franklin 2:00
23
The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky Read by Jason in Panama 1:17
24
Æsop by Andrew Lang Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 2:05
25
Indirection by Richard Realf Read by Sonia 2:29
26
Proem by Madison Cawein Read by Tomas Peter 1:31
27
The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Read by Craig Franklin 1:20
28
Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller Read by Jason in Panama 1:03
29
The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 1:47
30
Impression by Edmund Gosse Read by Sonia 2:11
31
The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave Read by Jason in Panama 1:49
32
On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton Read by Leanne Yau 1:15
33
The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) Read by Craig Franklin 1:58
34
Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth Read by Craig Franklin 1:24
35
The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson Read by Sonia 2:10
36
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats Read by Jason in Panama 1:21
37
The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang Read by Craig Franklin 1:17
38
Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney Read by Leanne Yau 1:27
39
The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers Read by Leanne Yau 1:16
40
The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
41
An Autograph by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 0:53
42
Art by Sir Gilbert Parker Read by Jason in Panama 2:18
43
Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Leanne Yau 2:01
44
The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell Read by Tomas Peter 1:53
45
The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson Read by Jason in Panama 3:07
46
Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor Read by Leanne Yau 0:37
47
Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby Read by Sonia 4:13
48
Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne Read by Craig Franklin 1:47
49
One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:34
50
The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Read by Jason in Panama 2:32
51
Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr Read by Tomas Peter 1:26
52
The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller Read by Sonia and 3 others 2:27
53
The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius Read by Sonia 2:15
54
Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson Read by Craig Franklin 1:04
55
Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous Read by Sonia 0:51
56
The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor Read by Jason in Panama 1:17
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The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard Read by Leanne Yau 1:31
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Books by John Higgins Read by Leanne Yau 0:39
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Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Leanne Yau 0:57
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Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:07
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To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Leanne Yau 0:47
62
The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder Read by Leanne Yau and 1 other 1:22
63
A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden Read by Tomas Peter 3:58
64
The Spell by Paul Verlaine Read by Tomas Peter 1:21
65
The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins Read by Sonia 6:59
66
Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley Read by Craig Franklin 1:52
67
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 9:51
68
Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey Read by Jason in Panama 1:20
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Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Tomas Peter 4:57
70
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Read by Jason in Panama 3:02
71
The Artist by Arthur Grissom Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:29
72
A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton Read by Sonia 1:39
73
On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson Read by Tomas Peter 1:58
74
Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:41
75
The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:01
76
Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood Read by Leanne Yau and 2 others 3:39
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The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones Read by Sonia and 4 others 2:45
78
'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham Read by Sonia 3:30
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'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:12
80
Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott Read by Jason in Panama 1:18
81
For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns Read by Tomas Peter 2:52
82
The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay Read by Jason in Panama 3:09
83
The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 4 others 12:02
84
Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates Read by Craig Franklin 1:16
85
The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker Read by Tomas Peter 1:44
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The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 3:38
87
Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller Read by Craig Franklin 3:08
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Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by Jason in Panama 1:53
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Work by Henry van Dyke Read by Craig Franklin 1:14
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A Wish by Abraham Cowley Read by Jason in Panama 1:46
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Contentment by Joshua Sylvester Read by Sonia 1:46
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Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene Read by Sonia 1:25
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Song by John Bunyan Read by Jason in Panama 0:58
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In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange Read by Craig Franklin 2:27
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Cleon and I by Charles Mackay Read by Jason in Panama 1:51
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The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams Read by Tomas Peter 3:42
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Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Sonia 3:53
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Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 5:02
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To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston Read by Craig Franklin 1:23
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A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend Read by Leanne Yau 1:52
101
The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:08
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Rest by Margaret L. Woods Read by Tomas Peter 1:36
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Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher Read by Leanne Yau 0:54
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Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Read by Leanne Yau 0:40
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Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney Read by Tomas Peter 1:36
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Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 2:33
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Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth Read by Leanne Yau 1:13
108
Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson Read by Craig Franklin 3:28
109
The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton Read by Sonia 2:28
110
The Two Oceans by John Sterling Read by Sonia 1:03
111
Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne Read by Tomas Peter 5:29
112
The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 3:22
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