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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)

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The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 35 min)

Chapters

Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous

2:22

Read by Craig Franklin

King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous

6:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger

1:58

Read by Leanne Yau

I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe

1:33

Read by Jason in Panama

Good Ale by John Still

2:35

Read by Leanne Yau

The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

3:36

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous

4:52

Read by Tomas Peter

Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler

2:09

Read by Sonia

The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous

2:48

Read by Foon

Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger

4:02

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor

2:47

Read by Leanne Yau

Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood

2:23

Read by Craig Franklin

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith

1:34

Read by Leanne Yau

Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene

2:34

Read by Tomas Peter

Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith

1:46

Read by Foon

The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

2:05

Read by Tomas Peter

Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood

3:30

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood

3:31

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Orator Puff by Thomas Moore

2:11

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith

2:40

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper

11:13

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2:22

Read by Foon

The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

3:51

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin

3:48

Read by Craig Franklin

Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at …

2:07

Read by Tomas Peter

Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes

1:28

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning

3:12

Read by Tomas Peter

Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray

2:14

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert

4:48

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert

4:59

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood

4:06

Read by Tomas Peter

Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns

1:56

Read by Leanne Yau

To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert

1:19

Read by Jason in Panama

The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper

2:18

Read by Leanne Yau

The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift

0:47

Read by Leanne Yau

Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck

4:39

Read by Leanne Yau

The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough

1:32

Read by Sonia

The New Church Organ by Will Carleton

4:21

Read by Sonia

Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift

1:30

Read by Leanne Yau

The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn

2:36

Read by Tomas Peter

The Recruit by Robert William Chambers

3:16

Read by Tomas Peter

Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland

2:22

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland

2:50

Read by Tomas Peter

Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams

2:13

Read by Leanne Yau

Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams

3:02

Read by Sonia

The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.)

7:53

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

2:21

Read by Leanne Yau

What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lo…

3:40

Read by Craig Franklin

Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous

1:44

Read by Tomas Peter

The Compliment by Eugene Field

1:19

Read by Leanne Yau

The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields

2:29

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wen…

7:04

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley

2:56

Read by Craig Franklin

He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss

1:59

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous

4:47

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson

4:09

Read by Foon

Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay

2:50

Read by Sonia

To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte

4:35

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay

2:56

Read by Jason in Panama

Jim by Bret Harte

2:05

Read by Jason in Panama

Banty Tim by John Hay

2:57

Read by Foon

Dow's Flat by Bret Harte

4:00

Read by Craig Franklin

The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte

3:03

Read by Jason in Panama

Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by…

2:35

Read by Leanne Yau

A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton

1:12

Read by Leanne Yau

De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell

4:00

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Perils of Thinking by Anonymous

0:45

Read by Jason in Panama

Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell

2:04

Read by Foon

A Life's Love by Anonymous

1:36

Read by Craig Franklin

Darwin by Mortimer Collins

0:36

Read by Craig Franklin

Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver W…

2:26

Read by Sonia

Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall

2:31

Read by Sonia

A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymo…

2:17

Read by Foon

A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith

1:44

Read by Leanne Yau

Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley

1:56

Read by Tomas Peter

A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb

7:23

Read by Foon

Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous

0:58

Read by Leanne Yau

From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin

2:02

Read by Tomas Peter

A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous

0:52

Read by Jason in Panama

The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous

4:14

Read by Foon

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning

2:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh

2:47

Read by Leanne Yau

The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley

7:34

Read by Sonia

The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley

2:37

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley

4:03

Read by Sonia

Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne

3:30

Read by Sonia

The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley

2:17

Read by Sonia

The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous

0:58

Read by Foon

Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Rober…

8:19

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Belagcholly Days by Anonymous

1:50

Read by Leanne Yau

Sneezing by Leigh Hunt

1:09

Read by Sonia

To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill)

0:51

Read by Sonia

Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen

1:10

Read by Sonia

A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

2:22

Read by Leanne Yau

'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley

2:04

Read by Sonia

Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous

2:06

Read by Tomas Peter

My Love by Anonymous

1:39

Read by Leanne Yau

Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard

1:39

Read by Craig Franklin

Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:03

Read by Tomas Peter

Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood

2:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe

2:34

Read by Craig Franklin

Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell

0:47

Read by Foon

The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form …

1:11

Read by Craig Franklin

The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell

1:07

Read by Leanne Yau

The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous

1:17

Read by Foon

The Hen by Matthias Claudius

1:45

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope

3:48

Read by Sonia

Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley

3:05

Read by Leanne Yau

Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley

2:38

Read by Foon

Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord

1:01

Read by Tomas Peter

On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley

2:50

Read by Leanne Yau

The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche

2:23

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole

1:30

Read by Leanne Yau

Of Blue China by Andrew Lang

1:37

Read by Leanne Yau

A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe

2:07

Read by Craig Franklin

A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan

2:44

Read by Sonia

Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous

2:35

Read by Sonia

Nonsense by Thomas Moore

1:02

Read by Craig Franklin

The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess

0:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess

0:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (…

3:55

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

1:46

Read by Leanne Yau

For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch)

0:48

Read by Sonia