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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

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This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter (6 hr 21 min)

Chapters

To Myself by Paul Fleming

1:07

Read by Lian Pang

The Flower by George Herbert

3:17

Read by Gaby

Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton

1:13

Read by Sonia

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

1:07

Read by Sonia

Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle

5:54

Read by Tomas Peter

Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

1:17

Read by Sonia

My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson

2:37

Read by Tomas Peter

The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:33

Read by Gaby

Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell

1:47

Read by Lian Pang

Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch

3:08

Read by Gaby

The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart

4:48

Read by Sonia

Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson

2:00

Read by Tomas Peter

Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough

1:15

Read by Lian Pang

God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick

1:42

Read by Lian Pang

Sonnet by Louise Labé

1:06

Read by Lian Pang

Waiting by John Burroughs

1:25

Read by Sonia

Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett

3:19

Read by Tomas Peter

Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine

1:42

Read by Tomas Peter

Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt

1:03

Read by Gaby

I Hold Still by Julius Sturm

2:29

Read by Gaby

The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:15

Read by Sonia

When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette

3:04

Read by Gaby

Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien

1:30

Read by Sonia

The Saddest Fate by Anonymous

1:31

Read by Sonia

The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood

3:35

Read by Tomas Peter

Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:46

Read by Gaby

Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

3:00

Read by Gaby

Sic Vita by Henry King

1:02

Read by Sonia

Death the Leveller by James Shirley

1:30

Read by Lian Pang

Virtue Immortal by George Herbert

1:48

Read by Gaby

Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell

1:32

Read by Lian Pang

Mortality by William Knox

3:34

Read by Sonia

The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

3:31

Read by Gaby

The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

0:38

Read by Lian Pang

A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron

3:00

Read by Gaby

The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge

2:20

Read by Tomas Peter

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

4:55

Read by Lian Pang

A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill

1:52

Read by Gaby

Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

1:23

Read by Lian Pang

The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias

0:50

Read by Lian Pang

Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous

1:00

Read by Gaby

On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

1:16

Read by Tomas Peter

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

8:10

Read by Tomas Peter

God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:33

Read by Lian Pang

Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing

1:44

Read by Tomas Peter

The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell

1:22

Read by Sonia

Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy

1:03

Read by Lian Pang

The Dead by Mathilde Blind

1:39

Read by Gaby

On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers

1:10

Read by Gaby

The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie

2:12

Read by Tomas Peter

The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin

2:09

Read by Lian Pang

The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell

2:03

Read by Sonia

The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell

3:43

Read by Gaby

The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson

1:04

Read by Sonia

Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster

3:54

Read by Gaby

Jim's Kids by Eugene Field

2:44

Read by Tomas Peter

The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

14:38

Read by Gaby

On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald

2:11

Read by Lian Pang

Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay

1:18

Read by Sonia

Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand

1:26

Read by Tomas Peter

The Death-bed by Thomas Hood

1:02

Read by Sonia

A Death-bed by James Aldrich

0:45

Read by Lian Pang

Requiescat by Matthew Arnold

1:10

Read by Tomas Peter

'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)

2:11

Read by Sonia

Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott

1:57

Read by Gaby

Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning

3:21

Read by Tomas Peter

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

2:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan

2:18

Read by Lian Pang

Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore

2:50

Read by Sonia

Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:16

Read by Lian Pang

She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery

1:29

Read by Gaby

The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfell…

4:58

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6:08

Read by Sonia

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Sh…

1:29

Read by Tomas Peter

Highland Mary by Robert Burns

1:49

Read by Tomas Peter

Fair Helen by Anonymous

2:09

Read by Tomas Peter

Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4:15

Read by Tomas Peter

Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

1:36

Read by Lian Pang

After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston

2:15

Read by Gaby

Lament for Heliodore by Meleager

1:22

Read by Tomas Peter

On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

1:25

Read by Sonia

To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns

2:09

Read by Tomas Peter

Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton

2:40

Read by Lian Pang

The Passage by Ludwig Uhland

1:32

Read by Sonia

Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin

2:35

Read by Tomas Peter

Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:10

Read by Sonia

The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton

2:34

Read by Tomas Peter

Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

1:48

Read by Tomas Peter

Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

8:34

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Après by Arthur Joseph Munby

1:41

Read by Tomas Peter

The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans

2:07

Read by Tomas Peter

Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:06

Read by Sonia

Lavender by Anonymous

3:26

Read by Gaby

What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne

1:31

Read by Sonia

Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott

1:50

Read by Gaby

When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman

16:14

Read by Tomas Peter

If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith

2:03

Read by Sonia

Awakening by Washington Gladden

3:14

Read by Lian Pang

Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar

2:10

Read by Lian Pang

The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne

1:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle

2:37

Read by Tomas Peter

Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson

2:47

Read by Sonia

Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood

1:41

Read by Gaby

For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe

3:24

Read by Tomas Peter

Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown

1:15

Read by Sonia

The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2:31

Read by Lian Pang

Prospice by Robert Browning

2:20

Read by Gaby

I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg

3:18

Read by Lian Pang

Farewell by Walter Savage Landor

0:37

Read by Lian Pang

Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland

1:08

Read by Sonia

To Death by Gluck

2:16

Read by Gaby

Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett

2:23

Read by Lian Pang

Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland

1:39

Read by Gaby

In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne

2:08

Read by Tomas Peter

Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr

1:15

Read by Sonia

Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1:54

Read by Lian Pang

The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier

1:38

Read by Lian Pang

They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan

2:23

Read by Lian Pang

The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr

2:08

Read by Sonia

Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest

3:55

Read by Gaby

Grief for the Dead by Anonymous

1:42

Read by Lian Pang

The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick

2:55

Read by Gaby

For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer

4:22

Read by Tomas Peter

Watching for Papa by Anonymous

1:27

Read by Tomas Peter

My Child by John Pierpont

4:22

Read by Gaby

Song by Richard Le Gallienne

1:03

Read by Gaby

The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:30

Read by Lian Pang

'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe

2:01

Read by Lian Pang

Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant

1:27

Read by Lian Pang

De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5:27

Read by Tomas Peter

Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

1:33

Read by Sonia

Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beec…

2:57

Read by Sonia

Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

1:05

Read by Lian Pang

In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson

1:39

Read by Tomas Peter

Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:48

Read by Gaby

Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:39

Read by Lian Pang

Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

1:44

Read by Sonia

Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:10

Read by Lian Pang

The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold

4:18

Read by Sonia

Peace by Anonymous

1:05

Read by Lian Pang

Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:08

Read by Gaby

Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan

2:45

Read by Sonia

The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston

0:56

Read by Sonia

The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant

5:38

Read by Gaby

Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber

1:28

Read by Lian Pang

Lycidas by John Milton

11:12

Read by Tomas Peter

After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold

4:04

Read by Tomas Peter

It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune

1:39

Read by Gaby

There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery

4:19

Read by Gaby

Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks

1:47

Read by Sonia

Blind by Israel Zangwill

1:59

Read by Gaby

The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare

1:29

Read by Sonia