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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 9 min)

Chapters

The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley

1:35

Read by Leanne Yau

Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow

2:20

Read by Tomas Peter

A Farewell by Charles Kingsley

0:57

Read by Jason in Panama

Riding Down by Nora Perry

2:13

Read by Leanne Yau

A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin

1:20

Read by Leanne Yau

In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson

1:47

Read by Sonia

Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper

1:02

Read by Jason in Panama

To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson

2:46

Read by Craig Franklin

The School Girl by William Henry Venable

2:22

Read by Jason in Panama

Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:52

Read by Tomas Peter

To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth

4:22

Read by Craig Franklin

Ruth by Thomas Hood

1:13

Read by Leanne Yau

The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson

3:38

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English

2:29

Read by Craig Franklin

Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley

1:13

Read by Leanne Yau

Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse

4:43

Read by Sonia

My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris

1:48

Read by Craig Franklin

To the Virgins by Robert Herrick

1:12

Read by Sonia

Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous

1:11

Read by Tomas Peter

The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley

1:10

Read by Craig Franklin

Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous

3:39

Read by Sonia

To Thaliarchus by Horace

1:41

Read by Sonia

A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck

1:18

Read by Leanne Yau

Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck

1:26

Read by Jason in Panama

Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

1:41

Read by Tomas Peter

Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray

6:08

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore

2:39

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray

5:06

Read by Sonia

Spring Song by Bliss Carman

4:41

Read by Leanne Yau

Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

2:43

Read by Jason in Panama

The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman

4:00

Read by Tomas Peter

Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:27

Read by Jason in Panama

The Heritage by James Russell Lowell

3:30

Read by Sonia

To Youth by Walter Savage Landor

1:18

Read by Sonia

My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4:56

Read by Jason in Panama

Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:23

Read by Tomas Peter

The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard

1:05

Read by Sonia

Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope

1:26

Read by Sonia

Home by Leonidas

0:56

Read by Tomas Peter

The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:01

Read by Leanne Yau

The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney

1:00

Read by Jason in Panama

Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton

6:04

Read by Craig Franklin

The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans

1:53

Read by Leanne Yau

The Auld House by Lady Nairne

4:21

Read by Tomas Peter

The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson

2:06

Read by Craig Franklin

If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith

2:36

Read by Craig Franklin

The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell

1:59

Read by Sonia

The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing

1:54

Read by Sonia

Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith

2:37

Read by Jason in Panama

The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats

1:21

Read by Tomas Peter

Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers

2:56

Read by Leanne Yau

The Children by Charles M. Dickinson

3:30

Read by Jason in Panama

Not One to Spare by Anonymous

4:03

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow

1:58

Read by Jason in Panama

I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore

1:30

Read by Tomas Peter

The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee

1:19

Read by Craig Franklin

By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom

3:09

Read by Leanne Yau

My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton

2:24

Read by Craig Franklin

A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell

3:33

Read by Sonia

The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner

1:45

Read by Craig Franklin

The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns

11:50

Read by Sonia

A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier

6:15

Read by Tomas Peter

Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor

1:07

Read by Jason in Panama

The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

1:23

Read by Craig Franklin

Homeward Bound by Catullus

1:23

Read by Sonia

The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman

1:16

Read by Tomas Peter

The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

3:11

Read by Craig Franklin

A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman

1:48

Read by Sonia

In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland

1:45

Read by Leanne Yau

Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas)

1:20

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shak…

2:02

Read by Jason in Panama

The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard

2:39

Read by Sonia

The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

3:03

Read by Tomas Peter

When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell

3:50

Read by Sonia

Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott

1:42

Read by Leanne Yau

Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy

2:04

Read by Tomas Peter

The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:33

Read by Sonia

Christmas by George Wither

4:33

Read by Tomas Peter

The Auld Folks by Andrew Park

1:29

Read by Tomas Peter

A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:06

Read by Leanne Yau

Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne

2:10

Read by Jason in Panama

Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1:06

Read by Leanne Yau

Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young

3:27

Read by Craig Franklin

Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wend…

3:37

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

1:16

Read by Sonia

Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shak…

1:22

Read by Leanne Yau

Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

1:41

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster

1:09

Read by Leanne Yau

A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke

1:15

Read by Leanne Yau

Parted Friends by James Montgomery

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

Jaffar by Leigh Hunt

2:45

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore

1:30

Read by Sonia

We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer

1:03

Read by Craig Franklin

We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll

2:19

Read by Jason in Panama

Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer

2:45

Read by Jason in Panama

Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:19

Read by Tomas Peter

When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare

1:21

Read by Jason in Panama

Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

0:48

Read by Jason in Panama

Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare

1:27

Read by Tomas Peter

The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4:31

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns

4:51

Read by Craig Franklin

And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore

2:54

Read by Sonia

We Love but Few by Anonymous

1:41

Read by Craig Franklin

The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray

2:31

Read by Tomas Peter

A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore

1:34

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Platonic by William B. Terrett

3:26

Read by Leanne Yau

Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges)

0:46

Read by Craig Franklin

The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell …

3:20

Read by Jason in Panama

The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray

4:05

Read by Tomas Peter

The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar

2:32

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William S…

7:32

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman

1:21

Read by Leanne Yau

Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore

2:06

Read by Tomas Peter

A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger

2:52

Read by Craig Franklin

The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray

1:54

Read by Sonia

The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray

4:50

Read by Sonia

The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus

1:08

Read by Sonia

Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington

0:57

Read by Craig Franklin

To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper

4:27

Read by Jason in Panama

Advice by William Dunbar

1:38

Read by Craig Franklin

The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald

2:18

Read by Jason in Panama

Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain

1:54

Read by Sonia

Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

3:59

Read by LibriVox Volunteers