World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
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138 chapters · 6 h 28 min · English
Read by Anusha Iyer, Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin
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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)
Chapters
1 The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman 40 min 2 Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock 36 min 3 The Baby by Kalidasa 1 min 4 Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond) 1 min 5 The Baby by George MacDonald 2 min 6 Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) 2 min 7 Laus Infantium by William Canton 2 min 8 Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne 2 min 9 The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin 1 min 10 The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover 2 min 11 Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 12 The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts 1 min 13 Cradle Song by Anonymous 1 min 14 Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland 3 min 15 Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field 2 min 16 Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 2 min 17 Baby May by William Cox Bennett 3 min 18 Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers 3 min 19 Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge 2 min 20 Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier 2 min 21 The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 22 On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria 1 min 23 The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith 2 min 24 Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms 2 min 25 Children by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 26 Polly by William Brighty Rands 2 min 27 To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood 3 min 28 Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner 1 min 29 Willie Winkie by William Miller 2 min 30 To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt 5 min 31 Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow 2 min 32 The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard 3 min 33 Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn 1 min 34 To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth 2 min 35 My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck 1 min 36 Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith 2 min 37 The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous 1 min 38 Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson 3 min 39 The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt 1 min 40 Small and Early by Tudor Jenks 2 min 41 Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow 2 min 42 The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood 9 min 43 The Gambols of Children by George Darley 1 min 44 The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke 1 min 45 A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4 min 46 To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt 3 min 47 Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 5 min 48 Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey 2 min 49 Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett 2 min 50 Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier 4 min 51 On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits 2 min 52 She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell 2 min 53 Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth 2 min 54 We Are Seven by William Wordsworth 3 min 55 Boyhood by Washington Allston 1 min 56 Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary 2 min 57 The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom 3 min 58 My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 7 min 59 I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood 2 min 60 The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier 5 min 61 Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney 2 min 62 Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont 3 min 63 The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth 2 min 64 The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook 2 min 65 Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris 2 min 66 A Parable by Mathilde Blind 2 min 67 The Piper by William Blake 1 min 68 Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb 2 min 69 What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 70 A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts 4 min 71 Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker 3 min 72 No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver 1 min 73 A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field 3 min 74 Half-Waking by William Allingham 1 min 75 Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous 3 min 76 Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor 1 min 77 The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen 2 min 78 The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 79 How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts 1 min 80 Try Again by Anonymous 1 min 81 Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 2 min 82 The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt 4 min 83 Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer 1 min 84 Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts 1 min 85 The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok 3 min 86 Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould 4 min 87 'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti 3 min 88 A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave 2 min 89 Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson 1 min 90 'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber 3 min 91 The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5 min 92 A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 93 A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley 1 min 94 The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift 3 min 95 Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 96 The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 97 The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman 1 min 98 The Dancers by Michael Field 1 min 99 My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 100 Little Bell by Thomas Westwood 4 min 101 Wings by Mary Louise Ritter 1 min 102 Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 103 Under My Window by Thomas Westwood 2 min 104 The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 105 Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray 3 min 106 The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt 3 min 107 The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 108 The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley 3 min 109 The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt 5 min 110 The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford 1 min 111 A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin 1 min 112 The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford 1 min 113 A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford 2 min 114 The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould 2 min 115 A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore 4 min 116 Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley 3 min 117 Old-School Punishment by Anonymous 1 min 118 In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 119 Seein' Things by Eugene Field 2 min 120 A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt 2 min 121 The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer 2 min 122 There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 min 123 The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann 2 min 124 The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann 3 min 125 The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann 3 min 126 The Three Children by Anonymous 1 min 127 The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear 2 min 128 Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear 4 min 129 The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 5 min 130 Good King Arthur by Anonymous 1 min 131 From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch 11 min 132 The Jumblies by Edward Lear 4 min 133 The History Lesson by Anonymous 1 min 134 Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1 min 135 Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear 6 min 136 There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling 1 min 137 More Limericks by Anonymous 1 min 138 Finis by Anonymous 1 min
