The Hundred Best English Poems
Various
Read by Bruce Kachuk
This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpieces are truly the best of the best, the crème de la crème, one hundred of the most awe inspiring and magnificent examples of poetic skill - works that will live forever in the annals of great literature.
Embracing the most influential names in poetry we have all come to love, respect and revere, this exceptional compilation has a verse for every occasion, a theme for each day of existence and poetic instances for all of life's varied circumstances.
Whether it's pondering Keats' assertion that "beauty is truth, truth beauty" or sharing Tennyson's anticipation of "crossing the bar", we can all in some way identify with the ideas and thoughts expressed in the works presented here. We can't help but be inspired and also entertained by the words of the superlative writers in this collection as they address the perils and wonders of the human condition.
By enriching the background themes of the life journey in which we find ourselves, these poems form a chorus in the universal music of an existence in which we collectively form the melody.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (4 hr 16 min)
Chapters
Prefatory Note | 3:53 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Madrigal | 0:48 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Forsaken Merman | 8:25 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Life | 2:16 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 1 | 0:39 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 2 | 1:04 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Lost Mistress | 1:34 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea | 1:09 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Epilogue | 1:44 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Silver Tassie | 1:13 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Of a' the Airts | 1:13 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
John Anderson my Jo | 1:17 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ae Fond Kiss | 2:03 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ye Flowery Banks | 1:23 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
A Red, Red Rose | 1:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Mary Morison | 1:53 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
She Walks in Beauty | 1:34 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom | 1:32 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'The Corsair' | 1:36 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Don Juan' | 6:22 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Hohenlinden | 2:17 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth | 1:27 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Youth and Age | 3:30 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Written in the Year 1746 | 1:09 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To a Young Lady | 0:57 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea | 1:39 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song | 1:10 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 | 4:00 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song | 0:48 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard | 9:53 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To R. T. H. B. | 1:20 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
I. M. Margaritae Sorori | 1:38 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Virtue | 1:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To the Virgins, to make much of Time | 1:18 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To Anthea, who may command him anything | 1:38 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Death Bed | 1:14 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Bridge of Sighs | 4:52 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
I Remember, I Remember | 1:59 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To Celia | 1:16 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
On first looking into Chapman's Homer | 1:15 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ode to a Nightingale | 5:39 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ode on a Grecian Urn | 4:00 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To Autumn | 2:45 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ode on Melancholy | 2:27 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
La Belle Dame sans Merci | 3:03 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet | 1:16 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Old Familiar Faces | 2:27 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Maid's Lament | 2:07 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To Lucasta. Going to the Wars | 1:01 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | 15:58 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
L'Allegro | 8:57 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Il Penseroso | 9:37 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Lycidas | 13:23 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
On his Blindness | 1:31 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Land o' the Leal | 2:03 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ode on Solitude | 1:29 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Night before his Death | 0:56 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
A Wish | 1:13 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XVII. Who will believe my verse? | 1:25 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | 1:26 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XXX. When to the sessions | 1:22 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning | 1:23 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet LX. Like as the waves | 1:31 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet LXVI. Tired with all these | 1:24 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet LXXI. No longer mourn | 1:20 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet LXXIII. That time of year | 1:30 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet LXXIV. But be contented | 1:23 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet CVI. When in the chronicle | 1:21 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet CXVI. Let me not to the marriage | 1:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'The Tempest' | 0:52 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Measure for Measure' | 0:44 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Much Ado about Nothing' | 1:14 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Cymbeline' | 1:42 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Prometheus Unbound' | 1:11 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Ode to the West Wind | 4:53 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Cloud | 5:16 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To a Skylark | 5:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Chorus from 'Hellas' | 2:48 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Stanzas. Written in Dejection, near Naples | 3:14 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Indian Serenade | 1:33 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To -- | 0:46 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To Night | 2:00 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'Ajax and Ulysses' | 1:33 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Stanzas | 1:37 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Requiem | 0:49 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'The Miller's Daughter' | 1:14 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
St. Agnes' Eve | 2:24 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Break, break, break | 1:17 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'The Princess' 1 | 1:48 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song from 'The Princess' 2 | 1:26 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Crossing the Bar | 1:11 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
On a Girdle | 1:04 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Song | 1:14 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
She dwelt among the untrodden ways | 0:57 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
She was a Phantom of delight | 2:01 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XXXIII. The world is too much with us | 1:19 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Sonnet XXXVI. Earth has not anything | 1:28 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond | 4:44 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Solitary Reaper | 1:59 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | 12:06 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia | 1:32 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |