World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)
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125 chapters · 6 h 6 min · English
Read by Sonia, Lian Pang, Tomas Peter, Gaby
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The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott 31 min 2 The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 2 min 3 Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 4 Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore 2 min 5 Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton) 2 min 6 The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1 min 7 Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare 1 min 8 Fair Ines by Thomas Hood 3 min 9 The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns 2 min 10 Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney 1 min 11 Agatha by Alfred Austin 2 min 12 The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson 4 min 13 Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 16 min 14 Song by Sir Walter Scott 1 min 15 Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard 3 min 16 To a Portrait by Arthur Symons 1 min 17 Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier 7 min 18 The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine 1 min 19 Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle 6 min 20 Waly, Waly by Anonymous 3 min 21 Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous 3 min 22 My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell 4 min 23 Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman 1 min 24 A Woman's Love by John Hay 2 min 25 The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers 1 min 26 Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy 2 min 27 The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham 4 min 28 Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell 8 min 29 Divided by Jean Ingelow 8 min 30 To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot 1 min 31 The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) 1 min 32 Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher 2 min 33 Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton 2 min 34 Time's Revenge by Agathias 1 min 35 The Dream by Lord Byron 13 min 36 Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore 3 min 37 Blighted Love by Luís de Camões 1 min 38 The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 min 39 The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith) 5 min 40 Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 5 min 41 Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge 7 min 42 The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford 2 min 43 Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux 1 min 44 Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler 1 min 45 Parting by Coventry Patmore 1 min 46 To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace 1 min 47 Good-bye by Anonymous 2 min 48 Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns 2 min 49 O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 2 min 50 Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron 2 min 51 Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 52 Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay 3 min 53 The Parting Lovers by Anonymous 1 min 54 Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay 2 min 55 As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore 2 min 56 Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough 2 min 57 Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron 1 min 58 Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron 3 min 59 Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton 1 min 60 Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare 2 min 61 Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford 2 min 62 We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford 2 min 63 Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell 2 min 64 Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell 2 min 65 Farewell!, But Whenever by Thomas Moore 2 min 66 Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer 9 min 67 Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer 2 min 68 To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace 1 min 69 To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 70 I Love My Jean by Robert Burns 1 min 71 Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell 5 min 72 O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns 1 min 73 The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir 2 min 74 Absence by Frances Anne Kemble 2 min 75 Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel 2 min 76 Daisy by Francis Thompson 3 min 77 Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) 2 min 78 What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire 2 min 79 Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 1 min 80 Absence by Anonymous 1 min 81 Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) 1 min 82 "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 83 The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb 2 min 84 Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan 3 min 85 The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous 2 min 86 My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster 3 min 87 Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster 2 min 88 The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper 1 min 89 Man by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 90 The World by Francis, Lord Bacon 2 min 91 Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele 1 min 92 The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles 3 min 93 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare 1 min 94 The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus 3 min 95 Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton 1 min 96 Lines by Chidiock Tichborne 2 min 97 Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher 1 min 98 The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 4 min 99 The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe 2 min 100 Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 min 101 Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 5 min 102 Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter 1 min 103 Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron 2 min 104 A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter 2 min 105 The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 min 106 A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 107 "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood 2 min 108 Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton 8 min 109 Old by Ralph Hoyt 7 min 110 The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 min 111 The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1 min 112 The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger 3 min 113 The Beggar by Thomas Moss 3 min 114 A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley 5 min 115 "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous 2 min 116 Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards 3 min 117 The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood 4 min 118 The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel 2 min 119 Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis 2 min 120 Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson 4 min 121 London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) 2 min 122 The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood 5 min 123 Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous 3 min 124 The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 5 min 125 Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min
