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)

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Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton 4:22 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare 2:30 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare 3:08 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3:00 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jon… 1:17 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman 3:36 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 1:18 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope 2:06 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats 3:42 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton 1:32 Gelesen von Sonia
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt 2:21 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore 1:10 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe 5:25 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) 2:32 Gelesen von Sonia
City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham 1:27 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey 1:25 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail 2:18 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden 1:25 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant 3:10 Gelesen von Sonia
Mist by Henry David Thoreau 1:03 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day 3:44 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau 1:10 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) 1:17 Gelesen von Sonia
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman 2:39 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell 1:51 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
The Nile by Leigh Hunt 1:18 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1:34 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling 3:53 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron 1:44 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore 2:28 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3:28 Gelesen von Sonia
The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron 2:22 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey 5:00 Gelesen von Sonia
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1:18 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp 3:16 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas 1:28 Gelesen von Sonia
The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 5:26 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 1:40 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe 4:56 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse 1:19 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron 1:25 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2:40 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Venice by John Addington Symonds 1:25 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers 3:10 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough 2:11 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley 3:00 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers 2:59 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read 3:32 Gelesen von Sonia
England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith 1:43 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3:08 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott 5:57 Gelesen von Sonia
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne 2:41 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott 4:21 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter S… 4:10 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes 2:23 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 26:27 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth 1:26 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
London by John Davidson 1:17 Gelesen von Sonia
The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone 5:37 Gelesen von Sonia
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson 7:32 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman 1:12 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Settler by Alfred B. Street 3:44 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier 3:12 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck 2:36 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman 2:48 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor 2:39 Gelesen von Adam Bielka
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang 1:15 Gelesen von Sonia
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton 5:38 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus') 5:39 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein 2:16 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil 5:22 Gelesen von Katharina Glowalla
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 22:06 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda 7:42 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias… 9:22 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 8:05 Gelesen von Sonia
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene 3:54 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel 3:52 Gelesen von Jason in Panama
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt 4:44 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker 13:06 Gelesen von Sonia
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis 6:28 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso 5:03 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis 5:37 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 3:12 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral 4:43 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt 2:44 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Glove by Robert Browning 9:31 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Louis XV by John Sterling 2:47 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning 8:06 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell 3:15 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning 4:23 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 17:33 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 5:26 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chau… 15:52 Gelesen von Sonia
Lord Lovel by Anonymous 3:13 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous 5:35 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert … 5:43 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 9:01 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare 0:48 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg 11:51 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell 3:06 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott 4:41 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter… 14:40 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott 7:53 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine 3:22 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 10:20 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier 5:47 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche 7:04 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe 3:21 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers