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The Hundred Best English Poems

The Hundred Best English Poems

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Number of Chapters: 101

Length: 04 hours and 16 minutes

Language: English

This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpieces are truly the best of the best, the crème de la crème, one hundred of the most awe inspiring and magnificent examples of poetic skill - works that will live forever in the annals of great literature.

Embracing the most influential names in poetry we have all come to love, respect and revere, this exceptional compilation has a verse for every occasion, a theme for each day of existence and poetic instances for all of life's varied circumstances.

Whether it's pondering Keats' assertion that "beauty is truth, truth beauty" or sharing Tennyson's anticipation of "crossing the bar", we can all in some way identify with the ideas and thoughts expressed in the works presented here. We can't help but be inspired and also entertained by the words of the superlative writers in this collection as they address the perils and wonders of the human condition.

By enriching the background themes of the life journey in which we find ourselves, these poems form a chorus in the universal music of an existence in which we collectively form the melody.
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk

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Prefatory Note (Bruce Kachuk)
Madrigal (Bruce Kachuk)
The Forsaken Merman (Bruce Kachuk)
Life (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 1 (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 2 (Bruce Kachuk)
The Lost Mistress (Bruce Kachuk)
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea (Bruce Kachuk)
Epilogue (Bruce Kachuk)
The Silver Tassie (Bruce Kachuk)
Of a' the Airts (Bruce Kachuk)
John Anderson my Jo (Bruce Kachuk)
Ae Fond Kiss (Bruce Kachuk)
Ye Flowery Banks (Bruce Kachuk)
A Red, Red Rose (Bruce Kachuk)
Mary Morison (Bruce Kachuk)
She Walks in Beauty (Bruce Kachuk)
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'The Corsair' (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Don Juan' (Bruce Kachuk)
Hohenlinden (Bruce Kachuk)
Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth (Bruce Kachuk)
Youth and Age (Bruce Kachuk)
Written in the Year 1746 (Bruce Kachuk)
To a Young Lady (Bruce Kachuk)
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea (Bruce Kachuk)
Song (Bruce Kachuk)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 (Bruce Kachuk)
Song (Bruce Kachuk)
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard (Bruce Kachuk)
To R. T. H. B. (Bruce Kachuk)
I. M. Margaritae Sorori (Bruce Kachuk)
Virtue (Bruce Kachuk)
To the Virgins, to make much of Time (Bruce Kachuk)
To Anthea, who may command him anything (Bruce Kachuk)
The Death Bed (Bruce Kachuk)
The Bridge of Sighs (Bruce Kachuk)
I Remember, I Remember (Bruce Kachuk)
To Celia (Bruce Kachuk)
On first looking into Chapman's Homer (Bruce Kachuk)
Ode to a Nightingale (Bruce Kachuk)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Bruce Kachuk)
To Autumn (Bruce Kachuk)
Ode on Melancholy (Bruce Kachuk)
La Belle Dame sans Merci (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet (Bruce Kachuk)
The Old Familiar Faces (Bruce Kachuk)
The Maid's Lament (Bruce Kachuk)
To Lucasta. Going to the Wars (Bruce Kachuk)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (Bruce Kachuk)
L'Allegro (Bruce Kachuk)
Il Penseroso (Bruce Kachuk)
Lycidas (Bruce Kachuk)
On his Blindness (Bruce Kachuk)
The Land o' the Leal (Bruce Kachuk)
Ode on Solitude (Bruce Kachuk)
The Night before his Death (Bruce Kachuk)
A Wish (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XVII. Who will believe my verse? (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XXX. When to the sessions (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet LX. Like as the waves (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet LXVI. Tired with all these (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet LXXI. No longer mourn (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet LXXIII. That time of year (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet LXXIV. But be contented (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet CVI. When in the chronicle (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet CXVI. Let me not to the marriage (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'The Tempest' (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Measure for Measure' (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Much Ado about Nothing' (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Cymbeline' (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Prometheus Unbound' (Bruce Kachuk)
Ode to the West Wind (Bruce Kachuk)
The Cloud (Bruce Kachuk)
To a Skylark (Bruce Kachuk)
Chorus from 'Hellas' (Bruce Kachuk)
Stanzas. Written in Dejection, near Naples (Bruce Kachuk)
The Indian Serenade (Bruce Kachuk)
To -- (Bruce Kachuk)
To Night (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'Ajax and Ulysses' (Bruce Kachuk)
Stanzas (Bruce Kachuk)
Requiem (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'The Miller's Daughter' (Bruce Kachuk)
St. Agnes' Eve (Bruce Kachuk)
Break, break, break (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'The Princess' 1 (Bruce Kachuk)
Song from 'The Princess' 2 (Bruce Kachuk)
Crossing the Bar (Bruce Kachuk)
On a Girdle (Bruce Kachuk)
Song (Bruce Kachuk)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways (Bruce Kachuk)
She was a Phantom of delight (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XXXIII. The world is too much with us (Bruce Kachuk)
Sonnet XXXVI. Earth has not anything (Bruce Kachuk)
To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond (Bruce Kachuk)
The Solitary Reaper (Bruce Kachuk)
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (Bruce Kachuk)
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (Bruce Kachuk)
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