World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
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Length 8 h 8 min
Chapters 108
First published 1904
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1
Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton Read by Craig Franklin 4:22
2
Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare Read by Jason in Panama 2:30
3
Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:08
4
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Adrian Stephens 3:00
5
Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson Read by Katharina Glowalla 1:17
6
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Tomas Peter 3:36
7
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick Read by Adam Bielka 1:18
8
The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope Read by Adam Bielka 2:06
9
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Read by Jason in Panama 3:42
10
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton Read by Sonia 1:32
11
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt Read by Adrian Stephens 2:21
12
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore Read by Katharina Glowalla 1:10
13
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Craig Franklin 5:25
14
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) Read by Sonia 2:32
15
City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham Read by Tomas Peter 1:27
16
The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey Read by Katharina Glowalla 1:25
17
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail Read by Adam Bielka 2:18
18
Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden Read by Tomas Peter 1:25
19
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant Read by Sonia 3:10
20
Mist by Henry David Thoreau Read by Jason in Panama 1:03
21
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day Read by Adrian Stephens 3:44
22
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau Read by Adam Bielka 1:10
23
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) Read by Sonia 1:17
24
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman Read by Jason in Panama 2:39
25
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell Read by Adam Bielka 1:51
26
The Nile by Leigh Hunt Read by Katharina Glowalla 1:18
27
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Jason in Panama 1:34
28
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling Read by Jason in Panama 3:53
29
The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 1:44
30
The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore Read by Katharina Glowalla 2:28
31
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia 3:28
32
The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Read by Katharina Glowalla 2:22
33
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey Read by Sonia 5:00
34
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Adrian Stephens 1:18
35
The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp Read by Adam Bielka 3:16
36
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas Read by Sonia 1:28
37
The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 5:26
38
The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 1:40
39
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe Read by Craig Franklin 4:56
40
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse Read by Tomas Peter 1:19
41
Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Read by Jason in Panama 1:25
42
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Adrian Stephens 2:40
43
Venice by John Addington Symonds Read by Tomas Peter 1:25
44
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers Read by Katharina Glowalla 3:10
45
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough Read by Tomas Peter 2:11
46
Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Jason in Panama 3:00
47
Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers Read by Adam Bielka 2:59
48
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read Read by Sonia 3:32
49
England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Adrian Stephens 1:43
50
That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Adrian Stephens 3:08
51
The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott Read by Sonia and 1 other 5:57
52
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne Read by Katharina Glowalla 2:41
53
Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter 4:21
54
An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Read by Katharina Glowalla 4:10
55
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes Read by Tomas Peter 2:23
56
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Sonia and 5 others 26:27
57
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth Read by Adrian Stephens 1:26
58
London by John Davidson Read by Sonia 1:17
59
The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone Read by Sonia 5:37
60
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson Read by Craig Franklin 7:32
61
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman Read by Jason in Panama 1:12
62
The Settler by Alfred B. Street Read by Tomas Peter 3:44
63
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier Read by Sonia and 4 others 3:12
64
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck Read by Tomas Peter 2:36
65
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman Read by Adam Bielka 2:48
66
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor Read by Adam Bielka 2:39
67
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang Read by Sonia 1:15
68
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:38
69
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus') Read by Tomas Peter 5:39
70
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein Read by Katharina Glowalla 2:16
71
The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil Read by Katharina Glowalla 5:22
72
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay Read by Sonia and 5 others 22:06
73
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda Read by Sonia and 5 others 7:42
74
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér Read by Tomas Peter and 4 others 9:22
75
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Sonia and 1 other 8:05
76
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 3:54
77
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel Read by Jason in Panama and 1 other 3:52
78
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:44
79
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker Read by Sonia and 1 other 13:06
80
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis Read by Tomas Peter and 3 others 6:28
81
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso Read by Tomas Peter and 3 others 5:03
82
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:37
83
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:12
84
The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:43
85
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:44
86
The Glove by Robert Browning Read by Sonia and 3 others 9:31
87
Louis XV by John Sterling Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:47
88
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning Read by Sonia and 4 others 8:06
89
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 3:15
90
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:23
91
Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Jason in Panama and 2 others 17:33
92
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:26
93
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by Sonia and 1 other 15:52
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Lord Lovel by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:13
95
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 4 others 5:35
96
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey Read by Sonia and 4 others 5:43
97
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter and 4 others 9:01
98
England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare Read by Adrian Stephens 0:48
99
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg Read by Sonia and 3 others 11:51
100
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia and 4 others 3:06
101
Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Read by Adrian Stephens and 2 others 4:41
102
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Read by Craig Franklin and 2 others 14:40
103
Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 7:53
104
Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:22
105
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Read by Tomas Peter and 4 others 10:20
106
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:47
107
The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche Read by Sonia and 5 others 7:04
108
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:21
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