World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)
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157 chapters · 6 h 18 min · English
Read by Jason in Panama, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Craig Franklin, Sonia
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The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 min 2 The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare 2 min 3 The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor 2 min 4 The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley 3 min 5 The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey 2 min 6 A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant 7 min 7 The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor 3 min 8 The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 9 The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms 2 min 10 The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant 4 min 11 Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill 4 min 12 The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts 3 min 13 Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 min 14 The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt 1 min 15 Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith 4 min 16 The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 17 The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White 1 min 18 To Daffodils by Robert Herrick 1 min 19 Daffodils by William Wordsworth 2 min 20 To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell 3 min 21 Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke 2 min 22 The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 2 min 23 The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 24 Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold 2 min 25 To Violets by Robert Herrick 1 min 26 A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson 2 min 27 The Wreath by Meleager 1 min 28 The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant 4 min 29 Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier 9 min 30 The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens 2 min 31 The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan 4 min 32 The Maize by William W. Fosdick 4 min 33 The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 34 The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 min 35 Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck 2 min 36 The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer 3 min 37 To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns 3 min 38 To Blossoms by Robert Herrick 1 min 39 The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith 1 min 40 The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb 1 min 41 Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith 1 min 42 The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher 2 min 43 Flowers by Thomas Hood 2 min 44 'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore 3 min 45 To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant 1 min 46 The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges 1 min 47 Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman 2 min 48 The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley 1 min 49 Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery 3 min 50 To the Cuckoo by John Logan 2 min 51 To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth 2 min 52 Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 1 min 53 The Lark Ascending by George Meredith 6 min 54 To the Skylark by William Wordsworth 1 min 55 To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 min 56 The Skylark by James Hogg 2 min 57 The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana 2 min 58 The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter 2 min 59 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant 2 min 60 To the Nightingale by John Milton 1 min 61 The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw 4 min 62 Philomena by Matthew Arnold 2 min 63 Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper 1 min 64 Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 65 The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg 2 min 66 To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs 3 min 67 The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch 4 min 68 The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton 2 min 69 The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 70 The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 71 The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 3 min 72 The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 73 The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie 2 min 74 The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis 3 min 75 The English Robin by Harrison Weir 1 min 76 Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges 2 min 77 The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton 1 min 78 The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague 2 min 79 The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt 1 min 80 The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts 1 min 81 Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous 1 min 82 Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts 9 min 83 The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 1 min 84 To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt 1 min 85 A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte 2 min 86 To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 min 87 The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys 1 min 88 To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson 3 min 89 Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson 2 min 90 A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman 4 min 91 To a Louse by Robert Burns 2 min 92 To a Mouse by Robert Burns 3 min 93 The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb 1 min 94 Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous 3 min 95 The Tiger by William Blake 2 min 96 The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath 4 min 97 Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania 2 min 98 The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci 1 min 99 Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 2 min 100 Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer 3 min 101 To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney 2 min 102 Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott 3 min 103 The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 5 min 104 The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 2 min 105 The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anonymous 2 min 106 Chiquita by Bret Harte 3 min 107 The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 min 108 The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 5 min 109 The Sea by Bernard Barton 1 min 110 The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3 min 111 Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok 1 min 112 The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 2 min 113 Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 3 min 114 The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman 3 min 115 The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans 3 min 116 Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous 3 min 117 A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne 5 min 118 Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner 2 min 119 Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 120 The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney 3 min 121 The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery 3 min 122 The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 min 123 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham 1 min 124 Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell 2 min 125 My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper 1 min 126 The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin 2 min 127 The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe 1 min 128 All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin 1 min 129 The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry 3 min 130 Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin 2 min 131 Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell 2 min 132 The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 133 Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing 1 min 134 A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent 2 min 135 To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1 min 136 Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby 2 min 137 Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell 4 min 138 The Storm by George Alexander Stevens 3 min 139 The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron 2 min 140 The Shipwreck by William Falconer 3 min 141 The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4 min 142 The Polar Quest by Richard Burton 1 min 143 The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts 1 min 144 The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche 2 min 145 The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner 1 min 146 Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 3 min 147 With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb 2 min 148 The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth 1 min 149 The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 150 Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier 5 min 151 Among the Rocks by Robert Browning 1 min 152 The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey 4 min 153 How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell 2 min 154 The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt 2 min 155 Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin 3 min 156 The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond 4 min 157 The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 2 min
