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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley	Leanne Yau	00:01:35
Play 02	Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow	Tomas Peter	00:02:20
Play 03	A Farewell by Charles Kingsley	Jason in Panama	00:00:57
Play 04	Riding Down by Nora Perry	Leanne Yau	00:02:13
Play 05	A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin	Leanne Yau	00:01:20
Play 06	In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson	Sonia	00:01:47
Play 07	Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper	Jason in Panama	00:01:02
Play 08	To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson	Craig Franklin	00:02:46
Play 09	The School Girl by William Henry Venable	Jason in Panama	00:02:22
Play 10	Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tomas Peter	00:02:52
Play 11	To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth	Craig Franklin	00:04:22
Play 12	Ruth by Thomas Hood	Leanne Yau	00:01:13
Play 13	The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson	Group	00:03:38
Play 14	Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English	Craig Franklin	00:02:29
Play 15	Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley	Leanne Yau	00:01:13
Play 16	Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse	Sonia	00:04:43
Play 17	My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris	Craig Franklin	00:01:48
Play 18	To the Virgins by Robert Herrick	Sonia	00:01:12
Play 19	Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:01:11
Play 20	The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley	Craig Franklin	00:01:10
Play 21	Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous	Sonia	00:03:39
Play 22	To Thaliarchus by Horace	Sonia	00:01:41
Play 23	A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck	Leanne Yau	00:01:18
Play 24	Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck	Jason in Panama	00:01:26
Play 25	Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim	Tomas Peter	00:01:41
Play 26	Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray	Group	00:06:08
Play 27	The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore	Group	00:02:39
Play 28	On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray	Sonia	00:05:06
Play 29	Spring Song by Bliss Carman	Leanne Yau	00:04:41
Play 30	Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey	Jason in Panama	00:02:43
Play 31	The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman	Tomas Peter	00:04:00
Play 32	Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne	Jason in Panama	00:01:27
Play 33	The Heritage by James Russell Lowell	Sonia	00:03:30
Play 34	To Youth by Walter Savage Landor	Sonia	00:01:18
Play 35	My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jason in Panama	00:04:56
Play 36	Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Tomas Peter	00:01:23
Play 37	The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard	Sonia	00:01:05
Play 38	Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope	Sonia	00:01:26
Play 39	Home by Leonidas	Tomas Peter	00:00:56
Play 40	The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Leanne Yau	00:02:01
Play 41	The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney	Jason in Panama	00:01:00
Play 42	Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton	Craig Franklin	00:06:04
Play 43	The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans	Leanne Yau	00:01:53
Play 44	The Auld House by Lady Nairne	Tomas Peter	00:04:21
Play 45	The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson	Craig Franklin	00:02:06
Play 46	If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith	Craig Franklin	00:02:36
Play 47	The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:01:59
Play 48	The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:01:54
Play 49	Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith	Jason in Panama	00:02:37
Play 50	The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats	Tomas Peter	00:01:21
Play 51	Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers	Leanne Yau	00:02:56
Play 52	The Children by Charles M. Dickinson	Jason in Panama	00:03:30
Play 53	Not One to Spare by Anonymous	Group	00:04:03
Play 54	Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow	Jason in Panama	00:01:58
Play 55	I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore	Tomas Peter	00:01:30
Play 56	The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee	Craig Franklin	00:01:19
Play 57	By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom	Leanne Yau	00:03:09
Play 58	My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton	Craig Franklin	00:02:24
Play 59	A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell	Sonia	00:03:33
Play 60	The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner	Craig Franklin	00:01:45
Play 61	The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:11:50
Play 62	A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier	Tomas Peter	00:06:15
Play 63	Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor	Jason in Panama	00:01:07
Play 64	The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey	Craig Franklin	00:01:23
Play 65	Homeward Bound by Catullus	Sonia	00:01:23
Play 66	The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman	Tomas Peter	00:01:16
Play 67	The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith	Craig Franklin	00:03:11
Play 68	A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:01:48
Play 69	In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland	Leanne Yau	00:01:45
Play 70	Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas)	Group	00:01:20
Play 71	A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare	Jason in Panama	00:02:02
Play 72	The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard	Sonia	00:02:39
Play 73	The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith	Tomas Peter	00:03:03
Play 74	When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell	Sonia	00:03:50
Play 75	Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott	Leanne Yau	00:01:42
Play 76	Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy	Tomas Peter	00:02:04
Play 77	The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Sonia	00:02:33
Play 78	Christmas by George Wither	Tomas Peter	00:04:33
Play 79	The Auld Folks by Andrew Park	Tomas Peter	00:01:29
Play 80	A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)	Leanne Yau	00:01:06
Play 81	Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne	Jason in Panama	00:02:10
Play 82	Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Leanne Yau	00:01:06
Play 83	Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young	Craig Franklin	00:03:27
Play 84	Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Group	00:03:37
Play 85	Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere	Sonia	00:01:16
Play 86	Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare	Leanne Yau	00:01:22
Play 87	Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare	Group	00:01:41
Play 88	The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster	Leanne Yau	00:01:09
Play 89	A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke	Leanne Yau	00:01:15
Play 90	Parted Friends by James Montgomery	Leanne Yau	00:01:19
Play 91	When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare	Leanne Yau	00:01:19
Play 92	Jaffar by Leigh Hunt	Group	00:02:45
Play 93	The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:01:30
Play 94	We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Leanne Yau	00:01:19
Play 95	Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer	Craig Franklin	00:01:03
Play 96	We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll	Jason in Panama	00:02:19
Play 97	Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer	Jason in Panama	00:02:45
Play 98	Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier	Tomas Peter	00:02:19
Play 99	When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare	Jason in Panama	00:01:21
Play 100	Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt	Jason in Panama	00:00:48
Play 101	Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare	Tomas Peter	00:01:27
Play 102	The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Group	00:04:31
Play 103	Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns	Craig Franklin	00:04:51
Play 104	And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:02:54
Play 105	We Love but Few by Anonymous	Craig Franklin	00:01:41
Play 106	The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray	Tomas Peter	00:02:31
Play 107	A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore	Group	00:01:34
Play 108	Platonic by William B. Terrett	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:03:26
Play 109	Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges)	Craig Franklin	00:00:46
Play 110	The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Jason in Panama	00:03:20
Play 111	The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray	Tomas Peter	00:04:05
Play 112	The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar	Group	00:02:32
Play 113	Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare	Group	00:07:32
Play 114	Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman	Leanne Yau	00:01:21
Play 115	Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore	Tomas Peter	00:02:06
Play 116	A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger	Craig Franklin	00:02:52
Play 117	The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray	Sonia	00:01:54
Play 118	The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:04:50
Play 119	The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus	Sonia	00:01:08
Play 120	Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington	Craig Franklin	00:00:57
Play 121	To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper	Jason in Panama	00:04:27
Play 122	Advice by William Dunbar	Craig Franklin	00:01:38
Play 123	The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald	Jason in Panama	00:02:18
Play 124	Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain	Sonia	00:01:54
Play 125	Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns	Group	00:03:59

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