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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1787), children (1080), family (197), home (17), world's best poetry (15), limericks (5), babies (4)

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman	Group	00:39:50
Play 01	Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock	Group	00:35:40
Play 02	The Baby by Kalidasa	Anusha Iyer	00:00:50
Play 03	Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond)	Anusha Iyer	00:01:24
Play 04	The Baby by George MacDonald	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:01:51
Play 05	Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn)	Group	00:02:14
Play 06	Laus Infantium by William Canton	Jason in Panama	00:01:35
Play 07	Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne	Sonia	00:02:05
Play 08	The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin	Craig Franklin	00:01:26
Play 09	The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:01:38
Play 10	Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Leanne Yau	00:01:24
Play 11	The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts	Tomas Peter	00:01:28
Play 12	Cradle Song by Anonymous	Jason in Panama	00:01:15
Play 13	Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland	Sonia	00:02:52
Play 14	Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field	Leanne Yau	00:01:34
Play 15	Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	Tomas Peter	00:02:26
Play 16	Baby May by William Cox Bennett	Craig Franklin	00:02:57
Play 17	Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers	Jason in Panama	00:02:47
Play 18	Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge	Craig Franklin	00:01:31
Play 19	Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier	Anusha Iyer	00:01:53
Play 20	The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tomas Peter	00:01:56
Play 21	On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria	Anusha Iyer	00:01:06
Play 22	The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith	Anusha Iyer Tomas Peter	00:01:43
Play 23	Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms	Sonia	00:02:07
Play 24	Children by Walter Savage Landor	Sonia	00:01:01
Play 25	Polly by William Brighty Rands	Leanne Yau	00:01:32
Play 26	To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:03:22
Play 27	Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner	Anusha Iyer Leanne Yau	00:01:26
Play 28	Willie Winkie by William Miller	Tomas Peter	00:01:40
Play 29	To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt	Sonia	00:04:34
Play 30	Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow	Craig Franklin	00:01:47
Play 31	The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard	Jason in Panama	00:02:55
Play 32	Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn	Tomas Peter	00:01:20
Play 33	To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth	Craig Franklin	00:02:21
Play 34	My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck	Leanne Yau	00:01:22
Play 35	Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith	Group	00:02:24
Play 36	The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:01:29
Play 37	Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson	Group	00:02:33
Play 38	The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt	Anusha Iyer Jason in Panama	00:01:05
Play 39	Small and Early by Tudor Jenks	Anusha Iyer Craig Franklin	00:02:29
Play 40	Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow	Anusha Iyer	00:02:09
Play 41	The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:08:51
Play 42	The Gambols of Children by George Darley	Jason in Panama	00:01:07
Play 43	The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke	Tomas Peter Craig Franklin	00:01:21
Play 44	A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Anusha Iyer	00:03:34
Play 45	To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt	Sonia	00:02:33
Play 46	Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Leanne Yau	00:05:05
Play 47	Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey	Tomas Peter	00:02:26
Play 48	Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett	Jason in Panama	00:01:48
Play 49	Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier	Tomas Peter	00:04:12
Play 50	On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits	Craig Franklin	00:01:41
Play 51	She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell	Jason in Panama	00:01:35
Play 52	Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth	Anusha Iyer Sonia	00:02:29
Play 53	We Are Seven by William Wordsworth	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:03:09
Play 54	Boyhood by Washington Allston	Craig Franklin	00:01:11
Play 55	Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary	Sonia	00:02:01
Play 56	The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom	Craig Franklin	00:02:48
Play 57	My Mother's Picture by William Cowper	Sonia	00:07:24
Play 58	I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood	Leanne Yau	00:01:41
Play 59	The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier	Jason in Panama	00:05:04
Play 60	Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney	Leanne Yau	00:02:21
Play 61	Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont	Tomas Peter	00:02:45
Play 62	The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth	Craig Franklin	00:02:30
Play 63	The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook	Leanne Yau	00:02:11
Play 64	Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris	Sonia	00:01:39
Play 65	A Parable by Mathilde Blind	Anusha Iyer	00:01:30
Play 66	The Piper by William Blake	Tomas Peter Jason in Panama	00:01:26
Play 67	Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb	Sonia	00:01:35
Play 68	What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Leanne Yau	00:01:16
Play 69	A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts	Tomas Peter	00:04:05
Play 70	Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker	Tomas Peter	00:02:33
Play 71	No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver	Jason in Panama	00:01:25
Play 72	A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field	Group	00:02:34
Play 73	Half-Waking by William Allingham	Sonia	00:01:15
Play 74	Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous	Leanne Yau	00:02:40
Play 75	Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor	Craig Franklin	00:01:00
Play 76	The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen	Group	00:02:09
Play 77	The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson	Jason in Panama	00:01:07
Play 78	How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts	Leanne Yau	00:01:09
Play 79	Try Again by Anonymous	Sonia	00:01:10
Play 80	Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton	Group	00:02:01
Play 81	The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt	Group	00:04:08
Play 82	Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer	Tomas Peter	00:01:24
Play 83	Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts	Craig Franklin	00:01:28
Play 84	The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok	Jason in Panama	00:02:32
Play 85	Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould	Tomas Peter	00:03:39
Play 86	'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti	Craig Franklin	00:02:31
Play 87	A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave	Jason in Panama	00:01:32
Play 88	Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson	Jason in Panama	00:01:22
Play 89	'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber	Tomas Peter	00:02:57
Play 90	The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Group	00:05:06
Play 91	A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson	Anusha Iyer	00:01:09
Play 92	A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley	Leanne Yau	00:01:22
Play 93	The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift	Anusha Iyer	00:03:14
Play 94	Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson	Sonia	00:01:15
Play 95	The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson	Craig Franklin	00:01:41
Play 96	The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman	Sonia	00:01:26
Play 97	The Dancers by Michael Field	Anusha Iyer	00:01:07
Play 98	My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson	Leanne Yau	00:01:32
Play 99	Little Bell by Thomas Westwood	Group	00:04:05
Play 100	Wings by Mary Louise Ritter	Anusha Iyer	00:01:03
Play 101	Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson	Leanne Yau	00:01:17
Play 102	Under My Window by Thomas Westwood	Leanne Yau	00:01:45
Play 103	The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson	Anusha Iyer	00:01:44
Play 104	Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray	Leanne Yau Jason in Panama	00:02:49
Play 105	The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt	Anusha Iyer Leanne Yau	00:03:01
Play 106	The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson	Sonia	00:01:16
Play 107	The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley	Tomas Peter	00:02:51
Play 108	The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt	Group	00:04:39
Play 109	The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford	Anusha Iyer Leanne Yau	00:01:24
Play 110	A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin	Jason in Panama	00:01:24
Play 111	The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:01:05
Play 112	A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford	Group	00:02:17
Play 113	The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould	Anusha Iyer Jason in Panama	00:02:22
Play 114	A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore	Tomas Peter Craig Franklin	00:03:51
Play 115	Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley	Craig Franklin	00:02:43
Play 116	Old-School Punishment by Anonymous	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:01:07
Play 117	In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier	Leanne Yau Jason in Panama	00:02:35
Play 118	Seein' Things by Eugene Field	Tomas Peter	00:02:30
Play 119	A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt	Group	00:01:49
Play 120	The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer	Group	00:02:28
Play 121	There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jason in Panama	00:01:07
Play 122	The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann	Sonia	00:01:50
Play 123	The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann	Group	00:03:18
Play 124	The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann	Group	00:02:52
Play 125	The Three Children by Anonymous	Craig Franklin	00:00:57
Play 126	The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear	Group	00:02:14
Play 127	Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear	Group	00:03:47
Play 128	The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)	Group	00:05:01
Play 129	Good King Arthur by Anonymous	Leanne Yau	00:00:55
Play 130	From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch	Group	00:10:32
Play 131	The Jumblies by Edward Lear	Group	00:03:37
Play 132	The History Lesson by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:01:20
Play 133	Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	Craig Franklin	00:01:29
Play 134	Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear	Group	00:06:18
Play 135	There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling	Anusha Iyer	00:00:41
Play 136	More Limericks by Anonymous	Anusha Iyer	00:00:53
Play 137	Finis by Anonymous	Anusha Iyer	00:00:47

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