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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 (4 hr 17 min)

Chapters

Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers

2:45

Read by Leanne Yau

Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1:14

Read by Tomas Peter

Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne

2:17

Read by Tomas Peter

Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge

2:21

Read by Sonia

A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter

1:35

Read by Leanne Yau

The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice

5:25

Read by Craig Franklin

Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci

1:27

Read by Jason in Panama

There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates

1:18

Read by Leanne Yau

Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in…

3:45

Read by Tomas Peter

Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1:42

Read by Sonia

Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore

1:35

Read by Sonia

On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau

2:47

Read by Craig Franklin

'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth

1:05

Read by Leanne Yau

The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly

4:49

Read by Leanne Yau

Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius

0:44

Read by Leanne Yau

The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth

1:22

Read by Jason in Panama

Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch

2:03

Read by Sonia

Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón

2:18

Read by Tomas Peter

My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer

4:29

Read by Sonia

To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial

1:28

Read by Craig Franklin

Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux

1:48

Read by Jason in Panama

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats

2:00

Read by Craig Franklin

The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky

1:17

Read by Jason in Panama

Æsop by Andrew Lang

2:05

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Indirection by Richard Realf

2:29

Read by Sonia

Proem by Madison Cawein

1:31

Read by Tomas Peter

The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

1:20

Read by Craig Franklin

Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller

1:03

Read by Jason in Panama

The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron

1:47

Read by Craig Franklin

Impression by Edmund Gosse

2:11

Read by Sonia

The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave

1:49

Read by Jason in Panama

On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

1:15

Read by Leanne Yau

The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)

1:58

Read by Craig Franklin

Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth

1:24

Read by Craig Franklin

The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson

2:10

Read by Sonia

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

1:21

Read by Jason in Panama

The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang

1:17

Read by Craig Franklin

Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

1:27

Read by Leanne Yau

The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers

1:16

Read by Leanne Yau

The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder

1:13

Read by Leanne Yau

An Autograph by James Russell Lowell

0:53

Read by Craig Franklin

Art by Sir Gilbert Parker

2:18

Read by Jason in Panama

Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

2:01

Read by Leanne Yau

The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell

1:53

Read by Tomas Peter

The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson

3:07

Read by Jason in Panama

Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor

0:37

Read by Leanne Yau

Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby

4:13

Read by Sonia

Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne

1:47

Read by Craig Franklin

One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser

1:34

Read by Sonia

The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Sc…

2:32

Read by Jason in Panama

Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr

1:26

Read by Tomas Peter

The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

2:27

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius

2:15

Read by Sonia

Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson

1:04

Read by Craig Franklin

Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous

0:51

Read by Sonia

The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor

1:17

Read by Jason in Panama

The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard

1:31

Read by Leanne Yau

Books by John Higgins

0:39

Read by Leanne Yau

Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakesp…

0:57

Read by Leanne Yau

Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

2:07

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley

0:47

Read by Leanne Yau

The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder

1:22

Read by Leanne Yau

A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden

3:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The Spell by Paul Verlaine

1:21

Read by Tomas Peter

The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins

6:59

Read by Sonia

Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley

1:52

Read by Craig Franklin

Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden

9:51

Read by Tomas Peter

Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey

1:20

Read by Jason in Panama

Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman

4:57

Read by Tomas Peter

On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

3:02

Read by Jason in Panama

The Artist by Arthur Grissom

1:29

Read by Sonia

A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton

1:39

Read by Sonia

On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman

2:41

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford

2:01

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood

3:39

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones

2:45

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham

3:30

Read by Sonia

'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney

3:12

Read by Sonia

Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott

1:18

Read by Jason in Panama

For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns

2:52

Read by Tomas Peter

The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay

3:09

Read by Jason in Panama

The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

12:02

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates

1:16

Read by Craig Franklin

The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker

1:44

Read by Tomas Peter

The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine

3:38

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

3:08

Read by Craig Franklin

Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1:53

Read by Jason in Panama

Work by Henry van Dyke

1:14

Read by Craig Franklin

A Wish by Abraham Cowley

1:46

Read by Jason in Panama

Contentment by Joshua Sylvester

1:46

Read by Sonia

Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene

1:25

Read by Sonia

Song by John Bunyan

0:58

Read by Jason in Panama

In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange

2:27

Read by Craig Franklin

Cleon and I by Charles Mackay

1:51

Read by Jason in Panama

The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams

3:42

Read by Tomas Peter

Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes

3:53

Read by Sonia

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

5:02

Read by Tomas Peter

To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston

1:23

Read by Craig Franklin

A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend

1:52

Read by Leanne Yau

The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold

2:08

Read by Sonia

Rest by Margaret L. Woods

1:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher

0:54

Read by Leanne Yau

Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

0:40

Read by Leanne Yau

Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

1:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

2:33

Read by Tomas Peter

Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth

1:13

Read by Leanne Yau

Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson

3:28

Read by Craig Franklin

The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton

2:28

Read by Sonia

The Two Oceans by John Sterling

1:03

Read by Sonia

Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne

5:29

Read by Tomas Peter

The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney

3:22

Read by Tomas Peter