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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)

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The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. - Summary by Tomas Peter (6 hr 18 min)

Chapters

The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth L…

1:14

Read by Jason in Panama

The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

1:34

Read by Leanne Yau

The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor

1:42

Read by Leanne Yau

The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley

2:34

Read by Tomas Peter

The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey

2:26

Read by Leanne Yau

A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant

7:15

Read by Craig Franklin

The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor

2:42

Read by Jason in Panama

The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:39

Read by Sonia

The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms

1:46

Read by Craig Franklin

The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant

4:27

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill

4:25

Read by Sonia

The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts

3:15

Read by Tomas Peter

Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:51

Read by Leanne Yau

The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt

1:26

Read by Craig Franklin

Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith

3:43

Read by Leanne Yau

The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor

1:25

Read by Craig Franklin

The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White

1:22

Read by Jason in Panama

To Daffodils by Robert Herrick

1:07

Read by Sonia

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

1:42

Read by Leanne Yau

To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell

3:24

Read by Craig Franklin

Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke

1:48

Read by Sonia

The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1:32

Read by Leanne Yau

The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1:19

Read by Jason in Panama

Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold

1:51

Read by Tomas Peter

To Violets by Robert Herrick

0:50

Read by Jason in Panama

A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson

1:46

Read by Sonia

The Wreath by Meleager

0:55

Read by Leanne Yau

The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant

3:36

Read by Tomas Peter

Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier

8:54

Read by Sonia

The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens

1:46

Read by Jason in Panama

The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan

3:34

Read by Sonia

The Maize by William W. Fosdick

4:24

Read by Jason in Panama

The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier

3:06

Read by Jason in Panama

The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3:15

Read by Tomas Peter

Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer

3:24

Read by Sonia

To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns

2:56

Read by Tomas Peter

To Blossoms by Robert Herrick

1:05

Read by Craig Franklin

The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith

1:15

Read by Jason in Panama

The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb

0:54

Read by Craig Franklin

Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith

1:28

Read by Tomas Peter

The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher

1:32

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Flowers by Thomas Hood

1:41

Read by Tomas Peter

'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

2:33

Read by Sonia

To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant

1:27

Read by Jason in Panama

The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges

1:01

Read by Craig Franklin

Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman

1:57

Read by Jason in Panama

The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley

1:25

Read by Tomas Peter

Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery

3:19

Read by Tomas Peter

To the Cuckoo by John Logan

1:39

Read by Sonia

To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth

1:54

Read by Leanne Yau

Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

0:57

Read by Jason in Panama

The Lark Ascending by George Meredith

6:11

Read by Jason in Panama

To the Skylark by William Wordsworth

1:23

Read by Craig Franklin

To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

4:59

Read by Sonia

The Skylark by James Hogg

2:25

Read by Tomas Peter

The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana

1:49

Read by Sonia

The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter

2:00

Read by Craig Franklin

To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

2:06

Read by Jason in Panama

To the Nightingale by John Milton

1:22

Read by Leanne Yau

The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw

4:05

Read by Sonia

Philomena by Matthew Arnold

2:22

Read by Tomas Peter

Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper

1:14

Read by Leanne Yau

Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant

3:28

Read by Tomas Peter

The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg

2:16

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs

3:04

Read by Tomas Peter

The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch

3:46

Read by Jason in Panama

The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton

1:32

Read by Leanne Yau

The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:36

Read by Craig Franklin

The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

0:49

Read by Leanne Yau

The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

2:36

Read by Sonia

The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:52

Read by Leanne Yau

The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie

1:38

Read by Jason in Panama

The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis

3:22

Read by Tomas Peter

The English Robin by Harrison Weir

1:09

Read by Leanne Yau

Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges

1:53

Read by Leanne Yau

The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton

1:12

Read by Sonia

The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague

1:58

Read by Leanne Yau

The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt

1:00

Read by Jason in Panama

The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts

1:18

Read by Craig Franklin

Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous

1:23

Read by Sonia

Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts

8:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats

1:13

Read by Jason in Panama

To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt

1:24

Read by Leanne Yau

A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte

1:55

Read by Tomas Peter

To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes

1:23

Read by Jason in Panama

The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys

1:03

Read by Craig Franklin

To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson

3:24

Read by Jason in Panama

Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson

1:52

Read by Tomas Peter

A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman

4:07

Read by Sonia

To a Louse by Robert Burns

2:28

Read by Sonia

To a Mouse by Robert Burns

2:33

Read by Craig Franklin

The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb

1:17

Read by Jason in Panama

Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous

2:39

Read by Craig Franklin

The Tiger by William Blake

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath

4:10

Read by Leanne Yau

Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania

1:48

Read by Craig Franklin

The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci

1:28

Read by Sonia

Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

1:57

Read by Jason in Panama

Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer

3:22

Read by Tomas Peter

To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney

2:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott

3:26

Read by Craig Franklin

The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

4:38

Read by Craig Franklin

The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

2:11

Read by Jason in Panama

The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anony…

1:35

Read by Sonia

Chiquita by Bret Harte

3:26

Read by Tomas Peter

The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1:52

Read by Leanne Yau

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

4:53

Read by Tomas Peter

The Sea by Bernard Barton

1:23

Read by Craig Franklin

The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne

2:36

Read by Leanne Yau

Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok

1:28

Read by Craig Franklin

The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

2:20

Read by Sonia

Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

2:38

Read by Jason in Panama

The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman

2:59

Read by Craig Franklin

The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans

2:47

Read by Sonia

Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous

2:36

Read by Tomas Peter

A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne

5:16

Read by Tomas Peter

Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner

1:37

Read by Craig Franklin

Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:35

Read by Tomas Peter

The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

2:48

Read by Craig Franklin

The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery

3:12

Read by Leanne Yau

The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

2:26

Read by Jason in Panama

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham

1:25

Read by Sonia

Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell

2:29

Read by Sonia

My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper

1:20

Read by Craig Franklin

The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin

1:49

Read by Sonia

The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe

1:12

Read by Sonia

All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin

1:27

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry

2:40

Read by Tomas Peter

Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin

1:36

Read by Sonia

Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell

2:07

Read by Tomas Peter

The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1:26

Read by Sonia

Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing

0:55

Read by Craig Franklin

A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent

1:35

Read by Leanne Yau

To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1:23

Read by Jason in Panama

Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby

1:42

Read by Tomas Peter

Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell

4:03

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Storm by George Alexander Stevens

3:22

Read by Craig Franklin

The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron

1:35

Read by Leanne Yau

The Shipwreck by William Falconer

3:16

Read by Sonia

The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4:22

Read by Leanne Yau

The Polar Quest by Richard Burton

1:14

Read by Craig Franklin

The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts

0:57

Read by Leanne Yau

The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche

1:59

Read by Leanne Yau

The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner

1:14

Read by Sonia

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

2:37

Read by Leanne Yau

With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb

1:57

Read by Leanne Yau

The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth

1:24

Read by Jason in Panama

The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor

1:21

Read by Sonia

Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier

4:56

Read by Tomas Peter

Among the Rocks by Robert Browning

1:12

Read by Sonia

The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey

4:20

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell

2:08

Read by Sonia

The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt

1:52

Read by Sonia

Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin

3:09

Read by Jason in Panama

The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond

4:20

Read by Tomas Peter

The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

2:14

Read by Leanne Yau