The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

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This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 To Myself by Paul Fleming Lian Pang
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Play 02 The Flower by George Herbert Gaby
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Play 03 Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton Sonia
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Play 04 Invictus by William Ernest Henley Sonia
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Play 05 Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle Tomas Peter
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Play 06 Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Sonia
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Play 07 My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson Tomas Peter
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Play 08 The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Gaby
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Play 09 Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell Lian Pang
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Play 10 Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch Gaby
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Play 11 The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart Sonia
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Play 12 Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson Tomas Peter
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Play 13 Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough Lian Pang
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Play 14 God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick Lian Pang
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Play 15 Sonnet by Louise Labé Lian Pang
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Play 16 Waiting by John Burroughs Sonia
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Play 17 Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett Tomas Peter
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Play 18 Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine Tomas Peter
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Play 19 Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt Gaby
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Play 20 I Hold Still by Julius Sturm Gaby
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Play 21 The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sonia
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Play 22 When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette Gaby
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Play 23 Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien Sonia
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Play 24 The Saddest Fate by Anonymous Sonia
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Play 25 The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood Tomas Peter
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Play 26 Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Gaby
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Play 27 Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Gaby
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Play 28 Sic Vita by Henry King Sonia
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Play 29 Death the Leveller by James Shirley Lian Pang
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Play 30 Virtue Immortal by George Herbert Gaby
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Play 31 Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell Lian Pang
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Play 32 Mortality by William Knox Sonia
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Play 33 The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans Gaby
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Play 34 The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Lian Pang
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Play 35 A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron Gaby
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Play 36 The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge Tomas Peter
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Play 37 Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Lian Pang
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Play 38 A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill Gaby
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Play 39 Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Lian Pang
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Play 40 The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias Lian Pang
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Play 41 Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous Gaby
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Play 42 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont Tomas Peter
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Play 43 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray Tomas Peter
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Play 44 God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang
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Play 45 Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing Tomas Peter
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Play 46 The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell Sonia
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Play 47 Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy Lian Pang
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Play 48 The Dead by Mathilde Blind Gaby
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Play 49 On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers Gaby
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Play 50 The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie Tomas Peter
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Play 51 The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin Lian Pang
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Play 52 The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell Sonia
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Play 53 The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell Gaby
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Play 54 The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson Sonia
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Play 55 Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster Gaby
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Play 56 Jim's Kids by Eugene Field Tomas Peter
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Play 57 The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Gaby
00:14:38
Play 58 On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald Lian Pang
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Play 59 Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay Sonia
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Play 60 Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Tomas Peter
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Play 61 The Death-bed by Thomas Hood Sonia
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Play 62 A Death-bed by James Aldrich Lian Pang
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Play 63 Requiescat by Matthew Arnold Tomas Peter
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Play 64 'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) Sonia
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Play 65 Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott Gaby
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Play 66 Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning Tomas Peter
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Play 67 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Tomas Peter
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Play 68 Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan Lian Pang
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Play 69 Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore Sonia
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Play 70 Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Lian Pang
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Play 71 She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery Gaby
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Play 72 The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Group 00:04:58
Play 73 Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonia
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Play 74 Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter
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Play 75 Highland Mary by Robert Burns Tomas Peter
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Play 76 Fair Helen by Anonymous Tomas Peter
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Play 77 Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tomas Peter
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Play 78 Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Lian Pang
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Play 79 After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston Gaby
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Play 80 Lament for Heliodore by Meleager Tomas Peter
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Play 81 On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre Sonia
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Play 82 To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns Tomas Peter
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Play 83 Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton Lian Pang
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Play 84 The Passage by Ludwig Uhland Sonia
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Play 85 Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin Tomas Peter
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Play 86 Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia
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Play 87 The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton Tomas Peter
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Play 88 Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter
Gaby
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Play 89 Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Group 00:08:34
Play 90 Après by Arthur Joseph Munby Tomas Peter
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Play 91 The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans Tomas Peter
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Play 92 Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia
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Play 93 Lavender by Anonymous Gaby
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Play 94 What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne Sonia
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Play 95 Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott Gaby
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Play 96 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman Tomas Peter
00:16:14
Play 97 If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith Sonia
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Play 98 Awakening by Washington Gladden Lian Pang
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Play 99 Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar Lian Pang
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Play 100 The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne Tomas Peter
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Play 101 Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle Tomas Peter
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Play 102 Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson Sonia
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Play 103 Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood Gaby
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Play 104 For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe Tomas Peter
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Play 105 Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown Sonia
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Play 106 The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lian Pang
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Play 107 Prospice by Robert Browning Gaby
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Play 108 I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg Lian Pang
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Play 109 Farewell by Walter Savage Landor Lian Pang
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Play 110 Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland Sonia
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Play 111 To Death by Gluck Gaby
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Play 112 Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett Lian Pang
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Play 113 Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland Gaby
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Play 114 In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne Tomas Peter
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Play 115 Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr Sonia
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Play 116 Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld Lian Pang
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Play 117 The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier Lian Pang
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Play 118 They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan Lian Pang
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Play 119 The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr Sonia
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Play 120 Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest Gaby
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Play 121 Grief for the Dead by Anonymous Lian Pang
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Play 122 The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick Gaby
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Play 123 For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer Tomas Peter
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Play 124 Watching for Papa by Anonymous Tomas Peter
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Play 125 My Child by John Pierpont Gaby
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Play 126 Song by Richard Le Gallienne Gaby
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Play 127 The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang
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Play 128 'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe Lian Pang
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Play 129 Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant Lian Pang
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Play 130 De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tomas Peter
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Play 131 Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Sonia
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Play 132 Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe Sonia
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Play 133 Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Lian Pang
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Play 134 In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson Tomas Peter
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Play 135 Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gaby
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Play 136 Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang
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Play 137 Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Sonia
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Play 138 Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lian Pang
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Play 139 The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold Sonia
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Play 140 Peace by Anonymous Lian Pang
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Play 141 Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Gaby
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Play 142 Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan Sonia
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Play 143 The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston Sonia
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Play 144 The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant Gaby
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Play 145 Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber Lian Pang
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Play 146 Lycidas by John Milton Tomas Peter
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Play 147 After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold Tomas Peter
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Play 148 It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune Gaby
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Play 149 There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery Gaby
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Play 150 Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks Sonia
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Play 151 Blind by Israel Zangwill Gaby
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Play 152 The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare Sonia
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