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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)

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The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers	Leanne Yau	00:02:45
Play 02	Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Tomas Peter	00:01:14
Play 03	Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne	Tomas Peter	00:02:17
Play 04	Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge	Sonia	00:02:21
Play 05	A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter	Leanne Yau	00:01:35
Play 06	The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice	Craig Franklin	00:05:25
Play 07	Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci	Jason in Panama	00:01:27
Play 08	There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates	Leanne Yau	00:01:18
Play 09	Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper	Tomas Peter	00:03:45
Play 10	Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Sonia	00:01:42
Play 11	Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore	Sonia	00:01:35
Play 12	On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau	Craig Franklin	00:02:47
Play 13	'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth	Leanne Yau	00:01:05
Play 14	The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly	Leanne Yau Tomas Peter	00:04:49
Play 15	Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius	Leanne Yau	00:00:44
Play 16	The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth	Jason in Panama	00:01:22
Play 17	Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch	Sonia	00:02:03
Play 18	Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón	Tomas Peter	00:02:18
Play 19	My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer	Sonia	00:04:29
Play 20	To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial	Craig Franklin	00:01:28
Play 21	Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux	Jason in Panama	00:01:48
Play 22	A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats	Craig Franklin	00:02:00
Play 23	The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky	Jason in Panama	00:01:17
Play 24	Æsop by Andrew Lang	Group	00:02:05
Play 25	Indirection by Richard Realf	Sonia	00:02:29
Play 26	Proem by Madison Cawein	Tomas Peter	00:01:31
Play 27	The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey	Craig Franklin	00:01:20
Play 28	Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller	Jason in Panama	00:01:03
Play 29	The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron	Craig Franklin	00:01:47
Play 30	Impression by Edmund Gosse	Sonia	00:02:11
Play 31	The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave	Jason in Panama	00:01:49
Play 32	On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton	Leanne Yau	00:01:15
Play 33	The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)	Craig Franklin	00:01:58
Play 34	Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth	Craig Franklin	00:01:24
Play 35	The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson	Sonia	00:02:10
Play 36	On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats	Jason in Panama	00:01:21
Play 37	The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang	Craig Franklin	00:01:17
Play 38	Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney	Leanne Yau	00:01:27
Play 39	The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers	Leanne Yau	00:01:16
Play 40	The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder	Leanne Yau	00:01:13
Play 41	An Autograph by James Russell Lowell	Craig Franklin	00:00:53
Play 42	Art by Sir Gilbert Parker	Jason in Panama	00:02:18
Play 43	Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Leanne Yau	00:02:01
Play 44	The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell	Tomas Peter	00:01:53
Play 45	The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson	Jason in Panama	00:03:07
Play 46	Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor	Leanne Yau	00:00:37
Play 47	Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby	Sonia	00:04:13
Play 48	Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne	Craig Franklin	00:01:47
Play 49	One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser	Sonia Tomas Peter	00:01:34
Play 50	The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott	Jason in Panama	00:02:32
Play 51	Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr	Tomas Peter	00:01:26
Play 52	The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller	Group	00:02:27
Play 53	The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius	Sonia	00:02:15
Play 54	Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson	Craig Franklin	00:01:04
Play 55	Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous	Sonia	00:00:51
Play 56	The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor	Jason in Panama	00:01:17
Play 57	The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard	Leanne Yau	00:01:31
Play 58	Books by John Higgins	Leanne Yau	00:00:39
Play 59	Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare	Leanne Yau	00:00:57
Play 60	Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare	Group	00:02:07
Play 61	To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Leanne Yau	00:00:47
Play 62	The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder	Leanne Yau Craig Franklin	00:01:22
Play 63	A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden	Tomas Peter	00:03:58
Play 64	The Spell by Paul Verlaine	Tomas Peter	00:01:21
Play 65	The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins	Sonia	00:06:59
Play 66	Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley	Craig Franklin	00:01:52
Play 67	Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden	Tomas Peter Jason in Panama	00:09:51
Play 68	Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey	Jason in Panama	00:01:20
Play 69	Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman	Tomas Peter	00:04:57
Play 70	On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Jason in Panama	00:03:02
Play 71	The Artist by Arthur Grissom	Sonia Leanne Yau	00:01:29
Play 72	A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton	Sonia	00:01:39
Play 73	On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson	Tomas Peter	00:01:58
Play 74	Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman	Group	00:02:41
Play 75	The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford	Group	00:02:01
Play 76	Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood	Group	00:03:39
Play 77	The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones	Group	00:02:45
Play 78	'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham	Sonia	00:03:30
Play 79	'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney	Sonia Craig Franklin	00:03:12
Play 80	Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott	Jason in Panama	00:01:18
Play 81	For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns	Tomas Peter	00:02:52
Play 82	The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay	Jason in Panama	00:03:09
Play 83	The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Group	00:12:02
Play 84	Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates	Craig Franklin	00:01:16
Play 85	The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker	Tomas Peter	00:01:44
Play 86	The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine	Group	00:03:38
Play 87	Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller	Craig Franklin	00:03:08
Play 88	Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Jason in Panama	00:01:53
Play 89	Work by Henry van Dyke	Craig Franklin	00:01:14
Play 90	A Wish by Abraham Cowley	Jason in Panama	00:01:46
Play 91	Contentment by Joshua Sylvester	Sonia	00:01:46
Play 92	Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene	Sonia	00:01:25
Play 93	Song by John Bunyan	Jason in Panama	00:00:58
Play 94	In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange	Craig Franklin	00:02:27
Play 95	Cleon and I by Charles Mackay	Jason in Panama	00:01:51
Play 96	The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams	Tomas Peter	00:03:42
Play 97	Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes	Sonia	00:03:53
Play 98	Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Tomas Peter	00:05:02
Play 99	To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston	Craig Franklin	00:01:23
Play 100	A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend	Leanne Yau	00:01:52
Play 101	The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold	Sonia Jason in Panama	00:02:08
Play 102	Rest by Margaret L. Woods	Tomas Peter	00:01:36
Play 103	Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher	Leanne Yau	00:00:54
Play 104	Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)	Leanne Yau	00:00:40
Play 105	Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney	Tomas Peter	00:01:36
Play 106	Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare	Tomas Peter	00:02:33
Play 107	Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth	Leanne Yau	00:01:13
Play 108	Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson	Craig Franklin	00:03:28
Play 109	The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton	Sonia	00:02:28
Play 110	The Two Oceans by John Sterling	Sonia	00:01:03
Play 111	Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne	Tomas Peter	00:05:29
Play 112	The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney	Tomas Peter Jason in Panama	00:03:22

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