World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
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133 chapters · 8 h 59 min · English
Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin
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The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson 34 min 2 Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson 1 min 3 Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland 7 min 4 Ideality by Hartley Coleridge 1 min 5 Fancy by John Keats 5 min 6 Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 7 Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare 3 min 8 Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick 3 min 9 Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 1 min 10 Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2 min 11 The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare 3 min 12 Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph 1 min 13 The Fairies by William Allingham 3 min 14 Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg 17 min 15 The Fairy Child by John Anster 2 min 16 Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston 4 min 17 The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake 34 min 18 Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly 2 min 19 Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 3 min 20 Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 1 min 21 The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3 min 22 The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo 5 min 23 The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton 4 min 24 The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton 9 min 25 Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns 12 min 26 The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine 1 min 27 The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2 min 28 The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne 1 min 29 The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold 8 min 30 The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow 1 min 31 A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 min 32 A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid 2 min 33 The Comet by Charles Sangster 3 min 34 The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan 10 min 35 The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 8 min 36 The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston 2 min 37 Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell 8 min 38 Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser 4 min 39 Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser 4 min 40 The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spenser 5 min 41 The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser 2 min 42 The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson 16 min 43 Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1 min 44 The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 9 min 45 Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 34 min 46 Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe 6 min 47 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 9 min 48 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5 min 49 The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe 3 min 50 The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller 2 min 51 The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly 3 min 52 The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning 17 min 53 Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne 1 min 54 A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone 1 min 55 Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges 1 min 56 Sherwood by Alfred Noyes 4 min 57 Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson 2 min 58 Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young 4 min 59 To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson 1 min 60 Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore 1 min 61 Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young 3 min 62 Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson 2 min 63 The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon 2 min 64 The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare 1 min 65 The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson 3 min 66 The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 67 A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson 1 min 68 What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman 4 min 69 The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch 3 min 70 The Making of Man by John White Chadwick 1 min 71 The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond 2 min 72 Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám 25 min 73 Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift 1 min 74 This Life by William Drummond 1 min 75 The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton 2 min 76 Retribution by Friedrich von Logau 1 min 77 The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh 4 min 78 The Generous Air by Palladas 1 min 79 Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson 1 min 80 Life by Richard Henry Wilde 2 min 81 Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough 2 min 82 Life by George Herbert 1 min 83 Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1 min 84 The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland 2 min 85 History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) 1 min 86 My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel 1 min 87 Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith 5 min 88 London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly 2 min 89 The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 90 L'Allegro by John Milton 8 min 91 Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith) 2 min 92 The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith 2 min 93 The Epicure by Anacreon 2 min 94 The Indian Weed by Anonymous 2 min 95 Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine 2 min 96 Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio 1 min 97 Il Penseroso by John Milton 9 min 98 Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 99 The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney 2 min 100 The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge 6 min 101 Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope 2 min 102 Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne 3 min 103 Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 min 104 Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck 2 min 105 Opportunity by William Blake 1 min 106 Opportunity by John James Ingalls 1 min 107 Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky 2 min 108 Augury by Edith M. Thomas 1 min 109 'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette 3 min 110 A Tear by Samuel Rogers 2 min 111 The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury 4 min 112 The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill 3 min 113 At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton 2 min 114 A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier 1 min 115 Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson 1 min 116 Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller 2 min 117 A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller 1 min 118 Yussouf by James Russell Lowell 3 min 119 Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser 3 min 120 Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius 2 min 121 Fortune by Sophocles 1 min 122 Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope 2 min 123 Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci 1 min 124 The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor 2 min 125 Growing Gray by Austin Dobson 2 min 126 Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 1 min 127 Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe 4 min 128 The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale 7 min 129 Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller 1 min 130 The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope 4 min 131 The Will by Dr. John Donne 4 min 132 To a Skeleton by Anonymous 3 min 133 The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar 3 min
