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

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