The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

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The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies, Elegies & Odes, Narratives

Language: English

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton Etext Craig Franklin
00:04:22
Play 02 Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare Etext Jason in Panama
00:02:30
Play 03 Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Etext Group 00:03:08
Play 04 To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley Etext Adrian Stephens
00:03:00
Play 05 Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:01:17
Play 06 Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman Etext Tomas Peter
00:03:36
Play 07 Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick Etext Adam Bielka
00:01:18
Play 08 The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope Etext Adam Bielka
00:02:06
Play 09 Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Etext Jason in Panama
00:03:42
Play 10 Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton Etext Sonia
00:01:32
Play 11 On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt Etext Adrian Stephens
00:02:21
Play 12 Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:01:10
Play 13 The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe Etext Craig Franklin
00:05:25
Play 14 The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) Etext Sonia
00:02:32
Play 15 City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:27
Play 16 The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:01:25
Play 17 An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail Etext Adam Bielka
00:02:18
Play 18 Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:25
Play 19 The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant Etext Sonia
00:03:10
Play 20 Mist by Henry David Thoreau Etext Jason in Panama
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Play 21 The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day Etext Adrian Stephens
00:03:44
Play 22 Smoke by Henry David Thoreau Etext Adam Bielka
00:01:10
Play 23 The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) Etext Sonia
00:01:17
Play 24 A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman Etext Jason in Panama
00:02:39
Play 25 The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell Etext Adam Bielka
00:01:51
Play 26 The Nile by Leigh Hunt Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:01:18
Play 27 Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:34
Play 28 Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling Etext Jason in Panama
00:03:53
Play 29 The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:44
Play 30 The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:02:28
Play 31 Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Etext Sonia
00:03:28
Play 32 The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:02:22
Play 33 The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey Etext Sonia
00:05:00
Play 34 The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:18
Play 35 The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp Etext Adam Bielka
00:03:16
Play 36 To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas Etext Sonia
00:01:28
Play 37 The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Etext Adrian Stephens
00:05:26
Play 38 The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:40
Play 39 A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe Etext Craig Franklin
00:04:56
Play 40 February in Rome by Edmund Gosse Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:19
Play 41 Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron Etext Jason in Panama
00:01:25
Play 42 A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Etext Adrian Stephens
00:02:40
Play 43 Venice by John Addington Symonds Etext Tomas Peter
00:01:25
Play 44 Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:03:10
Play 45 The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough Etext Tomas Peter
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Play 46 Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley Etext Jason in Panama
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Play 47 Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers Etext Adam Bielka
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Play 48 Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read Etext Sonia
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Play 49 England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Etext Adrian Stephens
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Play 50 That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Etext Adrian Stephens
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Play 51 The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott Etext Sonia
Adrian Stephens
00:05:57
Play 52 O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:02:41
Play 53 Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott Etext Tomas Peter
00:04:21
Play 54 An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:04:10
Play 55 The Castle Ruins by William Barnes Etext Tomas Peter
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Play 56 The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Etext Group 00:26:27
Play 57 Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth Etext Adrian Stephens
00:01:26
Play 58 London by John Davidson Etext Sonia
00:01:17
Play 59 The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone Etext Sonia
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Play 60 The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson Etext Craig Franklin
00:07:32
Play 61 Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman Etext Jason in Panama
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Play 62 The Settler by Alfred B. Street Etext Tomas Peter
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Play 63 Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier Etext Group 00:03:12
Play 64 Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck Etext Tomas Peter
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Play 65 Mannahatta by Walt Whitman Etext Adam Bielka
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Play 66 The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor Etext Adam Bielka
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Play 67 Scythe Song by Andrew Lang Etext Sonia
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Play 68 The Mowers by Myron B. Benton Etext Group 00:05:38
Play 69 Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus') Etext Tomas Peter
00:05:39
Play 70 In Mexico by Evaleen Stein Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:02:16
Play 71 The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil Etext Katharina Glowalla
00:05:22
Play 72 Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay Etext Group 00:22:06
Play 73 Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda Etext Group 00:07:42
Play 74 Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér Etext Group 00:09:22
Play 75 The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Etext Sonia
Adrian Stephens
00:08:05
Play 76 The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene Etext Jason in Panama
Katharina Glowalla
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Play 77 The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel Etext Jason in Panama
Craig Franklin
00:03:52
Play 78 Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt Etext Group 00:04:44
Play 79 Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker Etext Sonia
Tomas Peter
00:13:06
Play 80 The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis Etext Group 00:06:28
Play 81 Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso Etext Group 00:05:03
Play 82 Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis Etext Group 00:05:37
Play 83 The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Etext Group 00:03:12
Play 84 The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral Etext Group 00:04:43
Play 85 The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt Etext Group 00:02:44
Play 86 The Glove by Robert Browning Etext Group 00:09:31
Play 87 Louis XV by John Sterling Etext Group 00:02:47
Play 88 Hervé Riel by Robert Browning Etext Group 00:08:06
Play 89 Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell Etext Group 00:03:15
Play 90 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning Etext Group 00:04:23
Play 91 Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Group 00:17:33
Play 92 Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Group 00:05:26
Play 93 The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer Etext Sonia
Adrian Stephens
00:15:52
Play 94 Lord Lovel by Anonymous Etext Group 00:03:13
Play 95 Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous Etext Group 00:05:35
Play 96 The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey Etext Group 00:05:43
Play 97 The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Etext Group 00:09:01
Play 98 England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare Etext Adrian Stephens
00:00:48
Play 99 Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg Etext Group 00:11:51
Play 100 Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell Etext Group 00:03:06
Play 101 Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Etext Group 00:04:41
Play 102 Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Etext Group 00:14:40
Play 103 Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott Etext Group 00:07:53
Play 104 Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine Etext Group 00:03:22
Play 105 The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Etext Group 00:10:20
Play 106 Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier Etext Group 00:05:47
Play 107 The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche Etext Group 00:07:04
Play 108 Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe Etext Group 00:03:21