World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
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159 chapters · 6 h 28 min · English
Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin
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The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts 12 min 2 The World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William Wordsworth 1 min 3 Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 min 4 On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling 2 min 5 God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning 4 min 6 My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 1 min 7 Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson 3 min 8 The Country Faith by Norman Gale 1 min 9 Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth 10 min 10 Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder 2 min 11 Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles 1 min 12 Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray 3 min 13 Nature by Jones Very 1 min 14 Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth 4 min 15 An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats 2 min 16 The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth 2 min 17 Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott 3 min 18 The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey 5 min 19 Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton 4 min 20 Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton 1 min 21 Light by George MacDonald 4 min 22 The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor 1 min 23 From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley 4 min 24 Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 25 Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder 2 min 26 Morning Song by Joanna Baillie 2 min 27 Morning by John Cunningham 2 min 28 Pack Clouds Away by Thomas Heywood 1 min 29 Morning: From 'The Minstrel' by James Beattie 2 min 30 Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge 1 min 31 The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 2 min 32 A Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur 2 min 33 Noontide by John Leyden 2 min 34 A Summer Noon by William Howitt 2 min 35 The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert Tannahill 1 min 36 Sunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min 37 Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 38 Day Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) 2 min 39 The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott 2 min 40 Evening by Archibald Lampman 1 min 41 A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale 2 min 42 To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell 1 min 43 The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 44 Evening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton 1 min 45 Evening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron 4 min 46 Moonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 47 To Delia by Samuel Daniel 1 min 48 The Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by Homer 2 min 49 To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min 50 Night by Joseph Blanco White 1 min 51 Night: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord Byron 3 min 52 Night: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 min 53 Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 54 In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. Roberts 1 min 55 A Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James Thomson 8 min 56 March by William Morris 2 min 57 When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne 4 min 58 March by William Wordsworth 1 min 59 Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe 1 min 60 Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard 2 min 61 Spring by Thomas Gray 3 min 62 Summer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthy 4 min 63 Sweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas Carew 2 min 64 Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning 2 min 65 May Morning by Celia Thaxter 2 min 66 Song (On May Morning) by John Milton 1 min 67 Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod 3 min 68 Spring by Ebenezer Elliott 1 min 69 Die Down, O Dismal Day by David Gray 1 min 70 Morning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer 2 min 71 Cuckoo Song by Anonymous 1 min 72 Spring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 73 Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2 min 74 The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes 4 min 75 The Plough by Richard Hengist Horne 1 min 76 They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell 4 min 77 Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley 2 min 78 A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell 2 min 79 June by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 80 The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume 6 min 81 Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley 4 min 82 Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley 2 min 83 Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett 1 min 84 Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 min 85 Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1 min 86 Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner 3 min 87 Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell 6 min 88 After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1 min 89 A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne 2 min 90 Rain by Ebenezer Jones 2 min 91 The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies 2 min 92 Wicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-Armstrong 2 min 93 Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 min 94 The Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes 3 min 95 The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 min 96 Summer Moods by John Clare 1 min 97 In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton 4 min 98 The Angler's Wish by Izaak Walton 2 min 99 The Angler by John Chalkhill 2 min 100 Swimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord Byron 1 min 101 The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana 3 min 102 The Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. Roberts 3 min 103 September by George Arnold 2 min 104 The Latter Rain by Jones Very 1 min 105 To Autumn by John Keats 3 min 106 Harvest Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty 1 min 107 Life in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton Cooke 5 min 108 Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 109 The Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 3 min 110 The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William Browne 2 min 111 A Hunting We Will Go by Henry Fielding 2 min 112 The Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott 7 min 113 The Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James Thomson 2 min 114 The Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 4 min 115 Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb 1 min 116 No! by Thomas Hood 1 min 117 When the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley 2 min 118 Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min 119 When Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 120 Winter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias Claudius 2 min 121 Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas 1 min 122 Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 min 123 December by Joel Benton 1 min 124 Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge 1 min 125 The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 min 126 The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald 1 min 127 The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 128 'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 min 129 A Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage Eastman 5 min 130 Winter by John Howard Bryant 2 min 131 Winter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James Thomson 3 min 132 Winter Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty 2 min 133 Winter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William Cowper 4 min 134 Sleigh Song by G.W. Pettee 2 min 135 Our Skater Belle by Anonymous 2 min 136 O Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David Gray 1 min 137 A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald 2 min 138 The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant 2 min 139 Song of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 140 The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms 4 min 141 A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 142 The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill 3 min 143 Song of the River by Charles Kingsley 2 min 144 Afton Water by Robert Burns 4 min 145 The Snows by Charles Sangster 2 min 146 My River by Eduard Mörike 3 min 147 On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles 1 min 148 Oxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold 2 min 149 The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard 2 min 150 To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival 2 min 151 The Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 152 The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats 2 min 153 Calm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 2 min 154 The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster 1 min 155 Storm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 2 min 156 Dover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William Shakespeare 1 min 157 Choral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by Euripides 3 min 158 An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers 1 min 159 From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min
