World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
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112 chapters · 4 h 18 min · English
Read by Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Sonia, Craig Franklin, Jason in Panama
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The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers 3 min 2 Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 min 3 Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne 2 min 4 Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge 2 min 5 A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter 2 min 6 The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice 5 min 7 Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci 1 min 8 There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates 1 min 9 Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper 4 min 10 Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2 min 11 Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore 2 min 12 On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau 3 min 13 'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth 1 min 14 The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly 5 min 15 Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius 1 min 16 The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth 1 min 17 Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch 2 min 18 Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón 2 min 19 My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer 4 min 20 To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial 1 min 21 Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux 2 min 22 A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats 2 min 23 The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky 1 min 24 Æsop by Andrew Lang 2 min 25 Indirection by Richard Realf 2 min 26 Proem by Madison Cawein 2 min 27 The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey 1 min 28 Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller 1 min 29 The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron 2 min 30 Impression by Edmund Gosse 2 min 31 The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave 2 min 32 On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton 1 min 33 The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) 2 min 34 Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth 1 min 35 The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson 2 min 36 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats 1 min 37 The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang 1 min 38 Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney 1 min 39 The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers 1 min 40 The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder 1 min 41 An Autograph by James Russell Lowell 1 min 42 Art by Sir Gilbert Parker 2 min 43 Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 2 min 44 The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell 2 min 45 The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3 min 46 Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor 1 min 47 Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby 4 min 48 Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne 2 min 49 One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser 2 min 50 The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott 3 min 51 Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr 1 min 52 The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller 2 min 53 The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius 2 min 54 Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson 1 min 55 Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous 1 min 56 The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor 1 min 57 The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard 2 min 58 Books by John Higgins 1 min 59 Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 1 min 60 Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 2 min 61 To: by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 62 The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder 1 min 63 A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden 4 min 64 The Spell by Paul Verlaine 1 min 65 The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins 7 min 66 Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley 2 min 67 Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden 10 min 68 Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey 1 min 69 Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman 5 min 70 On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 3 min 71 The Artist by Arthur Grissom 1 min 72 A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton 2 min 73 On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson 2 min 74 Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman 3 min 75 The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford 2 min 76 Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood 4 min 77 The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones 3 min 78 'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham 4 min 79 'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney 3 min 80 Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott 1 min 81 For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns 3 min 82 The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay 3 min 83 The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 12 min 84 Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates 1 min 85 The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker 2 min 86 The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine 4 min 87 Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller 3 min 88 Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2 min 89 Work by Henry van Dyke 1 min 90 A Wish by Abraham Cowley 2 min 91 Contentment by Joshua Sylvester 2 min 92 Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene 1 min 93 Song by John Bunyan 1 min 94 In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange 2 min 95 Cleon and I by Charles Mackay 2 min 96 The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams 4 min 97 Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes 4 min 98 Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5 min 99 To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston 1 min 100 A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend 2 min 101 The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold 2 min 102 Rest by Margaret L. Woods 2 min 103 Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher 1 min 104 Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 1 min 105 Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney 2 min 106 Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 3 min 107 Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth 1 min 108 Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson 3 min 109 The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton 2 min 110 The Two Oceans by John Sterling 1 min 111 Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne 5 min 112 The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney 3 min
