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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 (8 hr 7 min)

Chapters

Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton

4:22

Read by Craig Franklin

Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare

2:30

Read by Jason in Panama

Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

3:08

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To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3:00

Read by Adrian Stephens

Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jon…

1:17

Read by Katharina Glowalla

Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman

3:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick

1:18

Read by Adam Bielka

The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope

2:06

Read by Adam Bielka

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

3:42

Read by Jason in Panama

Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton

1:32

Read by Sonia

On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt

2:21

Read by Adrian Stephens

Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore

1:10

Read by Katharina Glowalla

The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe

5:25

Read by Craig Franklin

The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)

2:32

Read by Sonia

City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham

1:27

Read by Tomas Peter

The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey

1:25

Read by Katharina Glowalla

An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail

2:18

Read by Adam Bielka

Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden

1:25

Read by Tomas Peter

The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant

3:10

Read by Sonia

Mist by Henry David Thoreau

1:03

Read by Jason in Panama

The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day

3:44

Read by Adrian Stephens

Smoke by Henry David Thoreau

1:10

Read by Adam Bielka

The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North)

1:17

Read by Sonia

A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman

2:39

Read by Jason in Panama

The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell

1:51

Read by Adam Bielka

The Nile by Leigh Hunt

1:18

Read by Katharina Glowalla

Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:34

Read by Jason in Panama

Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling

3:53

Read by Jason in Panama

The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron

1:44

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore

2:28

Read by Katharina Glowalla

Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:28

Read by Sonia

The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron

2:22

Read by Katharina Glowalla

The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey

5:00

Read by Sonia

The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:18

Read by Adrian Stephens

The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp

3:16

Read by Adam Bielka

To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas

1:28

Read by Sonia

The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron

5:26

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron

1:40

Read by Adrian Stephens

A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe

4:56

Read by Craig Franklin

February in Rome by Edmund Gosse

1:19

Read by Tomas Peter

Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron

1:25

Read by Jason in Panama

A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2:40

Read by Adrian Stephens

Venice by John Addington Symonds

1:25

Read by Tomas Peter

Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers

3:10

Read by Katharina Glowalla

The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough

2:11

Read by Tomas Peter

Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3:00

Read by Jason in Panama

Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers

2:59

Read by Adam Bielka

Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read

3:32

Read by Sonia

England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

1:43

Read by Adrian Stephens

That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3:08

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott

5:57

Read by Sonia

O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne

2:41

Read by Katharina Glowalla

Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott

4:21

Read by Tomas Peter

An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter S…

4:10

Read by Katharina Glowalla

The Castle Ruins by William Barnes

2:23

Read by Tomas Peter

The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith

26:27

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth

1:26

Read by Adrian Stephens

London by John Davidson

1:17

Read by Sonia

The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone

5:37

Read by Sonia

The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson

7:32

Read by Craig Franklin

Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

1:12

Read by Jason in Panama

The Settler by Alfred B. Street

3:44

Read by Tomas Peter

Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier

3:12

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck

2:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Mannahatta by Walt Whitman

2:48

Read by Adam Bielka

The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor

2:39

Read by Adam Bielka

Scythe Song by Andrew Lang

1:15

Read by Sonia

The Mowers by Myron B. Benton

5:38

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus')

5:39

Read by Tomas Peter

In Mexico by Evaleen Stein

2:16

Read by Katharina Glowalla

The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil

5:22

Read by Katharina Glowalla

Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

22:06

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Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda

7:42

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Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias…

9:22

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The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8:05

Read by Sonia

The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene

3:54

Read by Jason in Panama

The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

3:52

Read by Jason in Panama

Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt

4:44

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Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker

13:06

Read by Sonia

The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis

6:28

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Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso

5:03

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Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis

5:37

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The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

3:12

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The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral

4:43

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The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt

2:44

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The Glove by Robert Browning

9:31

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Louis XV by John Sterling

2:47

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Hervé Riel by Robert Browning

8:06

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Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell

3:15

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How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning

4:23

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Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

17:33

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Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

5:26

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The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chau…

15:52

Read by Sonia

Lord Lovel by Anonymous

3:13

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Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous

5:35

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The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert …

5:43

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The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

9:01

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England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare

0:48

Read by Adrian Stephens

Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg

11:51

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Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell

3:06

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Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott

4:41

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Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter…

14:40

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Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott

7:53

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Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine

3:22

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The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

10:20

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Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier

5:47

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The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche

7:04

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Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

3:21

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