World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
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108 chapters · 8 h 8 min · English
Read by Craig Franklin, Jason in Panama, Sonia, Tomas Peter, Katharina Glowalla, Adrian Stephens and others
Anthologies · Elegies & Odes · Narratives
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The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters
1 Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton 4 min 2 Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare 2 min 3 Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 3 min 4 To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 min 5 Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson 1 min 6 Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman 4 min 7 Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 1 min 8 The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope 2 min 9 Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats 4 min 10 Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton 2 min 11 On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt 2 min 12 Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore 1 min 13 The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe 5 min 14 The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) 3 min 15 City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham 1 min 16 The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey 1 min 17 An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail 2 min 18 Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden 1 min 19 The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 20 Mist by Henry David Thoreau 1 min 21 The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day 4 min 22 Smoke by Henry David Thoreau 1 min 23 The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) 1 min 24 A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman 3 min 25 The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell 2 min 26 The Nile by Leigh Hunt 1 min 27 Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min 28 Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling 4 min 29 The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron 2 min 30 The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore 2 min 31 Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 32 The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 2 min 33 The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey 5 min 34 The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 min 35 The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp 3 min 36 To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas 1 min 37 The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 5 min 38 The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 2 min 39 A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe 5 min 40 February in Rome by Edmund Gosse 1 min 41 Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 1 min 42 A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 min 43 Venice by John Addington Symonds 1 min 44 Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers 3 min 45 The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough 2 min 46 Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3 min 47 Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers 3 min 48 Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read 4 min 49 England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith 2 min 50 That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 min 51 The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott 6 min 52 O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne 3 min 53 Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott 4 min 54 An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott 4 min 55 The Castle Ruins by William Barnes 2 min 56 The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 26 min 57 Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth 1 min 58 London by John Davidson 1 min 59 The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone 6 min 60 The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson 8 min 61 Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman 1 min 62 The Settler by Alfred B. Street 4 min 63 Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier 3 min 64 Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck 3 min 65 Mannahatta by Walt Whitman 3 min 66 The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor 3 min 67 Scythe Song by Andrew Lang 1 min 68 The Mowers by Myron B. Benton 6 min 69 Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus') 6 min 70 In Mexico by Evaleen Stein 2 min 71 The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil 5 min 72 Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 22 min 73 Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda 8 min 74 Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér 9 min 75 The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 8 min 76 The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene 4 min 77 The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel 4 min 78 Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt 5 min 79 Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker 13 min 80 The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis 6 min 81 Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso 5 min 82 Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis 6 min 83 The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 3 min 84 The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral 5 min 85 The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt 3 min 86 The Glove by Robert Browning 10 min 87 Louis XV by John Sterling 3 min 88 Hervé Riel by Robert Browning 8 min 89 Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell 3 min 90 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning 4 min 91 Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 18 min 92 Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5 min 93 The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer 16 min 94 Lord Lovel by Anonymous 3 min 95 Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous 6 min 96 The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey 6 min 97 The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 9 min 98 England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare 1 min 99 Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg 12 min 100 Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell 3 min 101 Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott 5 min 102 Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott 15 min 103 Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott 8 min 104 Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine 3 min 105 The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 10 min 106 Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier 6 min 107 The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche 7 min 108 Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe 3 min
