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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

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The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1797), death (126), world's best poetry (15), comfort (10), adversity (4), disappointment (2), absence (1)

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott	Group	00:30:31
Play 01	The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare	Gaby	00:01:30
Play 02	Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Tomas Peter	00:03:26
Play 03	Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:02:19
Play 04	Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)	Lian Pang	00:01:34
Play 05	The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Sonia	00:01:14
Play 06	Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare	Lian Pang Tomas Peter	00:01:27
Play 07	Fair Ines by Thomas Hood	Gaby	00:02:34
Play 08	The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:01:46
Play 09	Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney	Lian Pang	00:01:23
Play 10	Agatha by Alfred Austin	Sonia	00:02:01
Play 11	The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson	Lian Pang	00:03:48
Play 12	Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Tomas Peter	00:16:28
Play 13	Song by Sir Walter Scott	Lian Pang	00:01:12
Play 14	Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard	Tomas Peter	00:03:27
Play 15	To a Portrait by Arthur Symons	Lian Pang	00:01:05
Play 16	Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier	Gaby	00:06:35
Play 17	The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine	Gaby	00:01:22
Play 18	Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle	Sonia	00:06:08
Play 19	Waly, Waly by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:03:27
Play 20	Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous	Lian Pang	00:03:18
Play 21	My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell	Tomas Peter	00:03:34
Play 22	Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman	Lian Pang	00:00:54
Play 23	A Woman's Love by John Hay	Lian Pang	00:02:30
Play 24	The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers	Gaby	00:00:55
Play 25	Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy	Gaby	00:02:05
Play 26	The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham	Sonia	00:04:19
Play 27	Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell	Tomas Peter	00:08:10
Play 28	Divided by Jean Ingelow	Gaby	00:08:18
Play 29	To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot	Gaby	00:01:16
Play 30	The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)	Sonia	00:01:22
Play 31	Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher	Gaby	00:01:38
Play 32	Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton	Lian Pang	00:01:52
Play 33	Time's Revenge by Agathias	Sonia	00:00:58
Play 34	The Dream by Lord Byron	Gaby	00:12:44
Play 35	Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore	Gaby	00:02:43
Play 36	Blighted Love by Luís de Camões	Lian Pang	00:01:14
Play 37	The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Tomas Peter	00:01:13
Play 38	The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)	Gaby	00:05:26
Play 39	Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	Lian Pang	00:04:54
Play 40	Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge	Gaby	00:07:22
Play 41	The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford	Sonia	00:02:01
Play 42	Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux	Lian Pang	00:01:15
Play 43	Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler	Lian Pang	00:00:48
Play 44	Parting by Coventry Patmore	Sonia	00:01:15
Play 45	To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace	Tomas Peter	00:00:57
Play 46	Good-bye by Anonymous	Gaby	00:02:13
Play 47	Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:02:11
Play 48	O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:01:34
Play 49	Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron	Gaby	00:02:04
Play 50	Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott	Tomas Peter	00:02:01
Play 51	Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay	Gaby	00:03:24
Play 52	The Parting Lovers by Anonymous	Sonia	00:01:01
Play 53	Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay	Tomas Peter	00:02:11
Play 54	As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore	Gaby	00:02:13
Play 55	Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough	Sonia	00:01:52
Play 56	Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron	Gaby	00:01:21
Play 57	Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron	Tomas Peter	00:02:58
Play 58	Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton	Sonia	00:01:18
Play 59	Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare	Gaby	00:01:36
Play 60	Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford	Lian Pang	00:01:32
Play 61	We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford	Lian Pang	00:01:46
Play 62	Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell	Gaby	00:01:54
Play 63	Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell	Gaby	00:01:53
Play 64	Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:01:53
Play 65	Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer	Group	00:08:44
Play 66	Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer	Tomas Peter	00:01:55
Play 67	To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace	Lian Pang	00:01:21
Play 68	To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier	Sonia	00:02:27
Play 69	I Love My Jean by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:01:12
Play 70	Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell	Tomas Peter	00:04:39
Play 71	O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:01:23
Play 72	The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir	Tomas Peter	00:02:18
Play 73	Absence by Frances Anne Kemble	Lian Pang	00:02:17
Play 74	Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel	Sonia	00:01:50
Play 75	Daisy by Francis Thompson	Gaby	00:03:26
Play 76	Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)	Sonia	00:01:49
Play 77	What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire	Tomas Peter	00:01:42
Play 78	Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare	Lian Pang	00:01:21
Play 79	Absence by Anonymous	Lian Pang	00:00:43
Play 80	Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)	Sonia	00:01:19
Play 81	"Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Lian Pang	00:01:44
Play 82	The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb	Tomas Peter	00:01:54
Play 83	Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan	Gaby	00:03:18
Play 84	The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous	Sonia	00:01:49
Play 85	My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster	Lian Pang	00:02:44
Play 86	Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster	Lian Pang	00:02:12
Play 87	The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper	Sonia	00:00:40
Play 88	Man by Walter Savage Landor	Lian Pang	00:00:37
Play 89	The World by Francis, Lord Bacon	Sonia	00:01:45
Play 90	Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele	Sonia	00:01:24
Play 91	The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles	Tomas Peter	00:02:34
Play 92	Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare	Lian Pang	00:01:23
Play 93	The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus	Sonia	00:02:51
Play 94	Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton	Lian Pang	00:01:28
Play 95	Lines by Chidiock Tichborne	Gaby	00:01:50
Play 96	Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher	Lian Pang	00:01:21
Play 97	The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare	Tomas Peter	00:03:50
Play 98	The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe	Sonia	00:01:59
Play 99	Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Gaby	00:03:11
Play 100	Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats	Tomas Peter	00:05:29
Play 101	Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter	Sonia	00:01:16
Play 102	Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron	Sonia	00:02:15
Play 103	A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter	Lian Pang	00:01:41
Play 104	The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Sonia	00:01:30
Play 105	A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tomas Peter	00:00:57
Play 106	"What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood	Gaby	00:01:36
Play 107	Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton	Gaby	00:07:31
Play 108	Old by Ralph Hoyt	Tomas Peter	00:07:20
Play 109	The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Gaby	00:02:27
Play 110	The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	Sonia	00:01:02
Play 111	The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger	Sonia	00:02:41
Play 112	The Beggar by Thomas Moss	Tomas Peter	00:02:51
Play 113	A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley	Gaby	00:05:08
Play 114	"They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:02:24
Play 115	Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards	Lian Pang	00:02:51
Play 116	The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood	Lian Pang	00:03:48
Play 117	The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel	Sonia	00:02:18
Play 118	Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis	Tomas Peter	00:01:51
Play 119	Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson	Sonia	00:03:30
Play 120	London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)	Lian Pang	00:01:33
Play 121	The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood	Gaby	00:04:39
Play 122	Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:03:09
Play 123	The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Gaby	00:04:39
Play 124	Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Sonia	00:01:15

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