The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)


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The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world, including Greece, Rome, the Orient, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, England, America, and the sea. It ends off with a selection of mischievous poems about women and their proclivities. The collection also includes an introductory essay by folklore scholar Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere 22:25 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor 4:07 Lu par Sonia
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides 6:21 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis 10:01 Lu par Tomas Peter
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne 4:47 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 6:06 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 10:57 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo 2:10 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold 26:40 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard 2:41 Lu par Sonia
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller 11:22 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey 5:08 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker 21:28 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 2:02 Lu par Foon
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13:35 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan 7:33 Lu par Jason in Panama
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers 6:30 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans 5:14 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron 19:12 Lu par Foon
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson 1:52 Lu par Foon
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning 26:10 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare 2:56 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 5:39 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous 1:44 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis 6:04 Lu par Sonia
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling 2:22 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey 21:56 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow 9:00 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 8:16 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood 10:03 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins 7:01 Lu par Craig Franklin
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling 3:29 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous 4:32 Lu par Leanne Yau
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte 3:31 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott 2:52 Lu par Sonia
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Lu par Sonia
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper 2:08 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley 1:33 Lu par Leanne Yau
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans 2:50 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4:49 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien 4:48 Lu par Sonia
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey 1:48 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Woman by Anonymous 0:47 Lu par Sonia
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg 2:41 Lu par Craig Franklin
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington 1:24 Lu par Tomas Peter
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes 1:20 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger 4:54 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray 1:12 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey 3:20 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed 5:41 Lu par Tomas Peter
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous 1:55 Lu par Jason in Panama
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe 2:14 Lu par Craig Franklin
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler 19:34 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden 1:40 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe 9:56 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson 3:15 Lu par Leanne Yau
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous 0:50 Lu par Jason in Panama