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