World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)
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152 chapters · 6 h 21 min · English
Read by Lian Pang, Gaby, Sonia, Tomas Peter
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This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 To Myself by Paul Fleming 1 min 2 The Flower by George Herbert 3 min 3 Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton 1 min 4 Invictus by William Ernest Henley 1 min 5 Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle 6 min 6 Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere 1 min 7 My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson 3 min 8 The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 9 Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell 2 min 10 Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch 3 min 11 The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart 5 min 12 Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson 2 min 13 Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough 1 min 14 God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick 2 min 15 Sonnet by Louise Labé 1 min 16 Waiting by John Burroughs 1 min 17 Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett 3 min 18 Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine 2 min 19 Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt 1 min 20 I Hold Still by Julius Sturm 2 min 21 The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 22 When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette 3 min 23 Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien 2 min 24 The Saddest Fate by Anonymous 2 min 25 The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood 4 min 26 Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 2 min 27 Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 3 min 28 Sic Vita by Henry King 1 min 29 Death the Leveller by James Shirley 2 min 30 Virtue Immortal by George Herbert 2 min 31 Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell 2 min 32 Mortality by William Knox 4 min 33 The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 4 min 34 The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1 min 35 A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron 3 min 36 The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge 2 min 37 Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant 5 min 38 A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill 2 min 39 Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1 min 40 The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias 1 min 41 Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous 1 min 42 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 1 min 43 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 8 min 44 God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 45 Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing 2 min 46 The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell 1 min 47 Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy 1 min 48 The Dead by Mathilde Blind 2 min 49 On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers 1 min 50 The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie 2 min 51 The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin 2 min 52 The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell 2 min 53 The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell 4 min 54 The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson 1 min 55 Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster 4 min 56 Jim's Kids by Eugene Field 3 min 57 The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 15 min 58 On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald 2 min 59 Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay 1 min 60 Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand 1 min 61 The Death-bed by Thomas Hood 1 min 62 A Death-bed by James Aldrich 1 min 63 Requiescat by Matthew Arnold 1 min 64 'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) 2 min 65 Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 66 Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning 3 min 67 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 2 min 68 Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan 2 min 69 Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore 3 min 70 Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 71 She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery 1 min 72 The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5 min 73 Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 6 min 74 Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 75 Highland Mary by Robert Burns 2 min 76 Fair Helen by Anonymous 2 min 77 Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 78 Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 2 min 79 After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston 2 min 80 Lament for Heliodore by Meleager 1 min 81 On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre 1 min 82 To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns 2 min 83 Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton 3 min 84 The Passage by Ludwig Uhland 2 min 85 Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin 3 min 86 Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 87 The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton 3 min 88 Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2 min 89 Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 9 min 90 Après by Arthur Joseph Munby 2 min 91 The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans 2 min 92 Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 93 Lavender by Anonymous 3 min 94 What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne 2 min 95 Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott 2 min 96 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman 16 min 97 If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith 2 min 98 Awakening by Washington Gladden 3 min 99 Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar 2 min 100 The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne 1 min 101 Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle 3 min 102 Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson 3 min 103 Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood 2 min 104 For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe 3 min 105 Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown 1 min 106 The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 min 107 Prospice by Robert Browning 2 min 108 I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg 3 min 109 Farewell by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 110 Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland 1 min 111 To Death by Gluck 2 min 112 Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett 2 min 113 Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland 2 min 114 In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne 2 min 115 Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr 1 min 116 Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 2 min 117 The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 118 They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan 2 min 119 The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr 2 min 120 Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest 4 min 121 Grief for the Dead by Anonymous 2 min 122 The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick 3 min 123 For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer 4 min 124 Watching for Papa by Anonymous 1 min 125 My Child by John Pierpont 4 min 126 Song by Richard Le Gallienne 1 min 127 The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 128 'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe 2 min 129 Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant 1 min 130 De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5 min 131 Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond 2 min 132 Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 min 133 Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey 1 min 134 In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 135 Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2 min 136 Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 137 Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond 2 min 138 Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 139 The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold 4 min 140 Peace by Anonymous 1 min 141 Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 142 Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan 3 min 143 The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston 1 min 144 The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant 6 min 145 Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber 1 min 146 Lycidas by John Milton 11 min 147 After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold 4 min 148 It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune 2 min 149 There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery 4 min 150 Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks 2 min 151 Blind by Israel Zangwill 2 min 152 The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare 1 min
