World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
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125 chapters · 5 h 10 min · English
Read by Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Sonia, 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 second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley 2 min 2 Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow 2 min 3 A Farewell by Charles Kingsley 1 min 4 Riding Down by Nora Perry 2 min 5 A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin 1 min 6 In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 7 Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper 1 min 8 To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3 min 9 The School Girl by William Henry Venable 2 min 10 Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 11 To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth 4 min 12 Ruth by Thomas Hood 1 min 13 The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson 4 min 14 Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English 2 min 15 Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley 1 min 16 Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse 5 min 17 My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris 2 min 18 To the Virgins by Robert Herrick 1 min 19 Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous 1 min 20 The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley 1 min 21 Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous 4 min 22 To Thaliarchus by Horace 2 min 23 A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck 1 min 24 Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck 1 min 25 Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim 2 min 26 Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray 6 min 27 The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore 3 min 28 On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray 5 min 29 Spring Song by Bliss Carman 5 min 30 Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey 3 min 31 The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman 4 min 32 Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1 min 33 The Heritage by James Russell Lowell 4 min 34 To Youth by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 35 My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5 min 36 Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 37 The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard 1 min 38 Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope 1 min 39 Home by Leonidas 1 min 40 The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 41 The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney 1 min 42 Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton 6 min 43 The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans 2 min 44 The Auld House by Lady Nairne 4 min 45 The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 min 46 If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith 3 min 47 The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell 2 min 48 The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing 2 min 49 Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith 3 min 50 The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats 1 min 51 Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers 3 min 52 The Children by Charles M. Dickinson 4 min 53 Not One to Spare by Anonymous 4 min 54 Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow 2 min 55 I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore 2 min 56 The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee 1 min 57 By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom 3 min 58 My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton 2 min 59 A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 4 min 60 The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner 2 min 61 The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns 12 min 62 A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier 6 min 63 Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor 1 min 64 The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1 min 65 Homeward Bound by Catullus 1 min 66 The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman 1 min 67 The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith 3 min 68 A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman 2 min 69 In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland 2 min 70 Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) 1 min 71 A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare 2 min 72 The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard 3 min 73 The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith 3 min 74 When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell 4 min 75 Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott 2 min 76 Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy 2 min 77 The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 78 Christmas by George Wither 5 min 79 The Auld Folks by Andrew Park 1 min 80 A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 81 Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne 2 min 82 Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 83 Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young 3 min 84 Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes 4 min 85 Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere 1 min 86 Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 87 Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2 min 88 The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster 1 min 89 A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke 1 min 90 Parted Friends by James Montgomery 1 min 91 When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare 1 min 92 Jaffar by Leigh Hunt 3 min 93 The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore 2 min 94 We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1 min 95 Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer 1 min 96 We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll 2 min 97 Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer 3 min 98 Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 99 When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare 1 min 100 Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt 1 min 101 Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare 1 min 102 The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5 min 103 Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns 5 min 104 And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore 3 min 105 We Love but Few by Anonymous 2 min 106 The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray 3 min 107 A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore 2 min 108 Platonic by William B. Terrett 3 min 109 Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges) 1 min 110 The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 min 111 The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray 4 min 112 The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar 3 min 113 Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 8 min 114 Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman 1 min 115 Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore 2 min 116 A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger 3 min 117 The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray 2 min 118 The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray 5 min 119 The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus 1 min 120 Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington 1 min 121 To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper 4 min 122 Advice by William Dunbar 2 min 123 The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald 2 min 124 Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain 2 min 125 Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns 4 min
