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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)

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Number of Chapters: 138

Length: 06 hours and 28 minutes

Language: English

The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)

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The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman (Group)
Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock (Group)
The Baby by Kalidasa (Anusha Iyer)
Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond) (Anusha Iyer)
The Baby by George MacDonald (Sonia)
Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) (Group)
Laus Infantium by William Canton (Jason in Panama)
Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Sonia)
The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (Craig Franklin)
The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover (Sonia)
Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts (Tomas Peter)
Cradle Song by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland (Sonia)
Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field (Leanne Yau)
Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Tomas Peter)
Baby May by William Cox Bennett (Craig Franklin)
Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers (Jason in Panama)
Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge (Craig Franklin)
Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier (Anusha Iyer)
The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tomas Peter)
On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria (Anusha Iyer)
The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith (Anusha Iyer)
Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms (Sonia)
Children by Walter Savage Landor (Sonia)
Polly by William Brighty Rands (Leanne Yau)
To My Infant Son by Thomas Hood (Sonia)
Letty's Globe by Charles Tennyson Turner (Anusha Iyer)
Willie Winkie by William Miller (Tomas Peter)
To J. H. (Four Years Old: A Nursery Song) by Leigh Hunt (Sonia)
Seven Times Four: Maternity by Jean Ingelow (Craig Franklin)
The Mother's Hope by Laman Blanchard (Jason in Panama)
Bedtime by Francis, Earl of Rosslyn (Tomas Peter)
To Hartley Coleridge (Six Years Old) by William Wordsworth (Craig Franklin)
My Little Girl by Samuel Minturn Peck (Leanne Yau)
Little Goldenhair by Mrs. F. Burge Smith (Group)
The Unfinished Prayer by Anonymous (Sonia)
Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson (Group)
The Witch in the Glass by Sarah M. B. Piatt (Anusha Iyer)
Small and Early by Tudor Jenks (Anusha Iyer)
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow (Anusha Iyer)
The Lost Heir by Thomas Hood (Sonia)
The Gambols of Children by George Darley (Jason in Panama)
The Child in the Garden by Henry van Dyke (Tomas Peter)
A Portrait by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Anusha Iyer)
To a Child During Sickness by Leigh Hunt (Sonia)
Baby Bell by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Leanne Yau)
Our Wee White Rose by Gerald Massey (Tomas Peter)
Baby's Shoes by William Cox Bennett (Jason in Panama)
Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol by Augustus Julian Requier (Tomas Peter)
On the Death of an Infant by Dirk Smits (Craig Franklin)
She Came and Went by James Russell Lowell (Jason in Panama)
Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth (Anusha Iyer)
We Are Seven by William Wordsworth (Leanne Yau)
Boyhood by Washington Allston (Craig Franklin)
Pictures of Memory by Alice Cary (Sonia)
The Mitherless Bairn by William Thom (Craig Franklin)
My Mother's Picture by William Cowper (Sonia)
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood (Leanne Yau)
The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier (Jason in Panama)
Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney (Leanne Yau)
Whittling (A National Portrait) by John Pierpont (Tomas Peter)
The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth (Craig Franklin)
The Old Arm-chair by Eliza Cook (Leanne Yau)
Woodman, Spare That Tree by George Pope Morris (Sonia)
A Parable by Mathilde Blind (Anusha Iyer)
The Piper by William Blake (Tomas Peter)
Choosing a Name by Mary Lamb (Sonia)
What Does Little Birdie Say?: From 'Sea Dreams' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
A Cradle Hymn by Isaac Watts (Tomas Peter)
Go Sleep, Ma Honey by Edward D. Barker (Tomas Peter)
No Baby in the House by Clara G. Dolliver (Jason in Panama)
A Dutch Lullaby by Eugene Field (Group)
Half-Waking by William Allingham (Sonia)
Twinkle, Twinkle by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor (Craig Franklin)
The Three Little Kittens (A Cat's Tale, with Additions) by Eliza Lee Follen (Group)
The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jason in Panama)
How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts (Leanne Yau)
Try Again by Anonymous (Sonia)
Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (Group)
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt (Group)
Thread and Song by John Williamson Palmer (Tomas Peter)
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts (Craig Franklin)
The Children's Church by Karl von Gerok (Jason in Panama)
Child's Evening Hymn by Sabine Baring-Gould (Tomas Peter)
'It Is Finished' by Christina Georgina Rossetti (Craig Franklin)
A Little Child's Hymn (For Night and Morning) by Francis Turner Palgrave (Jason in Panama)
Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson (Jason in Panama)
'By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill' by Reginald Heber (Tomas Peter)
The Romance of the Swan's Nest by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Group)
A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson (Anusha Iyer)
A Life-Lesson by James Whitcomb Riley (Leanne Yau)
The Dead Doll by Margaret Vandegrift (Anusha Iyer)
Foreign Children by Robert Louis Stevenson (Sonia)
The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson (Craig Franklin)
The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman (Sonia)
The Dancers by Michael Field (Anusha Iyer)
My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson (Leanne Yau)
Little Bell by Thomas Westwood (Group)
Wings by Mary Louise Ritter (Anusha Iyer)
Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson (Leanne Yau)
Under My Window by Thomas Westwood (Leanne Yau)
The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson (Anusha Iyer)
Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray (Leanne Yau)
The Wind in a Frolic by William Howitt (Anusha Iyer)
The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson (Sonia)
The Man in the Moon by James Whitcomb Riley (Tomas Peter)
The Fairies of the Caldon Low (A Midsummer Legend) by Mary Howitt (Group)
The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford (Anusha Iyer)
A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin (Jason in Panama)
The First Rose of Summer by Oliver Herford (Sonia)
A Belated Violet by Oliver Herford (Group)
The Frost by Hannah Flagg Gould (Anusha Iyer)
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (Tomas Peter)
Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley (Craig Franklin)
Old-School Punishment by Anonymous (Sonia)
In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier (Leanne Yau)
Seein' Things by Eugene Field (Tomas Peter)
A Mortifying Mistake by Anna Maria Pratt (Group)
The Smack in School by William Pitt Palmer (Group)
There Was a Little Girl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Jason in Panama)
The Story of Cruel Frederick: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann (Sonia)
The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann (Group)
The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air: From 'The English Struwwelpeter' by Heinrich Hoffmann (Group)
The Three Children by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear (Group)
Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow by Edward Lear (Group)
The Walrus and the Carpenter: From 'Alice in Wonderland' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (Group)
Good King Arthur by Anonymous (Leanne Yau)
From 'Max and Maurice' by Wilhelm Busch (Group)
The Jumblies by Edward Lear (Group)
The History Lesson by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
Sage Counsel by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Craig Franklin)
Limericks: From 'A Book of Nonsense' by Edward Lear (Group)
There Was a Small Boy of Quebec by Rudyard Kipling (Anusha Iyer)
More Limericks by Anonymous (Anusha Iyer)
Finis by Anonymous (Anusha Iyer)
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