World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
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123 chapters · 5 h 36 min · English
Read by Craig Franklin, Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Foon
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The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous 2 min 2 King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous 7 min 3 Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger 2 min 4 I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe 2 min 5 Good Ale by John Still 3 min 6 The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 4 min 7 The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous 5 min 8 Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler 2 min 9 The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous 3 min 10 Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger 4 min 11 The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor 3 min 12 Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood 2 min 13 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 2 min 14 Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene 3 min 15 Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith 2 min 16 The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 2 min 17 Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood 4 min 18 Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood 4 min 19 Orator Puff by Thomas Moore 2 min 20 The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith 3 min 21 The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper 11 min 22 Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 min 23 The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 4 min 24 Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin 4 min 25 Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning 2 min 26 Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 min 27 Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning 3 min 28 Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray 2 min 29 Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert 5 min 30 The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert 5 min 31 The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood 4 min 32 Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns 2 min 33 To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert 1 min 34 The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper 2 min 35 The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift 1 min 36 Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck 5 min 37 The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough 2 min 38 The New Church Organ by Will Carleton 4 min 39 Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift 2 min 40 The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn 3 min 41 The Recruit by Robert William Chambers 3 min 42 Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland 2 min 43 Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland 3 min 44 Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams 2 min 45 Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams 3 min 46 The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) 8 min 47 America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 2 min 48 What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell 4 min 49 Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous 2 min 50 The Compliment by Eugene Field 1 min 51 The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields 2 min 52 The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes 7 min 53 Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley 3 min 54 He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss 2 min 55 The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous 5 min 56 To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson 4 min 57 Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay 3 min 58 To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte 5 min 59 Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay 3 min 60 Jim by Bret Harte 2 min 61 Banty Tim by John Hay 3 min 62 Dow's Flat by Bret Harte 4 min 63 The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte 3 min 64 Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte 3 min 65 A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton 1 min 66 De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell 4 min 67 Perils of Thinking by Anonymous 1 min 68 Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell 2 min 69 A Life's Love by Anonymous 2 min 70 Darwin by Mortimer Collins 1 min 71 Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 min 72 Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall 3 min 73 A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous 2 min 74 A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith 2 min 75 Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley 2 min 76 A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb 7 min 77 Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous 1 min 78 From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin 2 min 79 A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous 1 min 80 The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous 4 min 81 The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning 3 min 82 Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh 3 min 83 The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley 8 min 84 The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley 3 min 85 Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley 4 min 86 Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne 4 min 87 The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley 2 min 88 The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous 1 min 89 Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) 8 min 90 Belagcholly Days by Anonymous 2 min 91 Sneezing by Leigh Hunt 1 min 92 To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) 1 min 93 Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen 1 min 94 A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2 min 95 'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley 2 min 96 Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous 2 min 97 My Love by Anonymous 2 min 98 Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard 2 min 99 Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 100 Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood 3 min 101 Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe 3 min 102 Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell 1 min 103 The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous 1 min 104 The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell 1 min 105 The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous 1 min 106 The Hen by Matthias Claudius 2 min 107 Ode, To the Roc by William John Courthope 4 min 108 Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley 3 min 109 Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley 3 min 110 Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord 1 min 111 On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley 3 min 112 The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche 2 min 113 Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole 2 min 114 Of Blue China by Andrew Lang 2 min 115 A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe 2 min 116 A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan 3 min 117 Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous 3 min 118 Nonsense by Thomas Moore 1 min 119 The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess 1 min 120 Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess 1 min 121 The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 4 min 122 Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 2 min 123 For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch) 1 min
