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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

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Number of Chapters: 125

Length: 05 hours and 09 minutes

Language: English

The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley (Leanne Yau)
Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow (Tomas Peter)
A Farewell by Charles Kingsley (Jason in Panama)
Riding Down by Nora Perry (Leanne Yau)
A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin (Leanne Yau)
In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson (Sonia)
Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper (Jason in Panama)
To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Craig Franklin)
The School Girl by William Henry Venable (Jason in Panama)
Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tomas Peter)
To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth (Craig Franklin)
Ruth by Thomas Hood (Leanne Yau)
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson (Group)
Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English (Craig Franklin)
Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley (Leanne Yau)
Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse (Sonia)
My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris (Craig Franklin)
To the Virgins by Robert Herrick (Sonia)
Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley (Craig Franklin)
Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous (Sonia)
To Thaliarchus by Horace (Sonia)
A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck (Leanne Yau)
Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck (Jason in Panama)
Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim (Tomas Peter)
Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray (Group)
The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore (Group)
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray (Sonia)
Spring Song by Bliss Carman (Leanne Yau)
Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey (Jason in Panama)
The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman (Tomas Peter)
Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Jason in Panama)
The Heritage by James Russell Lowell (Sonia)
To Youth by Walter Savage Landor (Sonia)
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Jason in Panama)
Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard (Sonia)
Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope (Sonia)
Home by Leonidas (Tomas Peter)
The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Leanne Yau)
The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney (Jason in Panama)
Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton (Craig Franklin)
The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans (Leanne Yau)
The Auld House by Lady Nairne (Tomas Peter)
The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson (Craig Franklin)
If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith (Craig Franklin)
The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell (Sonia)
The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing (Sonia)
Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith (Jason in Panama)
The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats (Tomas Peter)
Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers (Leanne Yau)
The Children by Charles M. Dickinson (Jason in Panama)
Not One to Spare by Anonymous (Group)
Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow (Jason in Panama)
I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore (Tomas Peter)
The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee (Craig Franklin)
By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom (Leanne Yau)
My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton (Craig Franklin)
A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell (Sonia)
The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner (Craig Franklin)
The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns (Sonia)
A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier (Tomas Peter)
Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor (Jason in Panama)
The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Craig Franklin)
Homeward Bound by Catullus (Sonia)
The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman (Tomas Peter)
The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith (Craig Franklin)
A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman (Sonia)
In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland (Leanne Yau)
Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) (Group)
A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard (Sonia)
The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith (Tomas Peter)
When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell (Sonia)
Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott (Leanne Yau)
Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy (Tomas Peter)
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
Christmas by George Wither (Tomas Peter)
The Auld Folks by Andrew Park (Tomas Peter)
A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Leanne Yau)
Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne (Jason in Panama)
Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Leanne Yau)
Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young (Craig Franklin)
Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Group)
Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (Sonia)
Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Group)
The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster (Leanne Yau)
A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke (Leanne Yau)
Parted Friends by James Montgomery (Leanne Yau)
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
Jaffar by Leigh Hunt (Group)
The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (Leanne Yau)
Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer (Craig Franklin)
We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll (Jason in Panama)
Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer (Jason in Panama)
Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier (Tomas Peter)
When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt (Jason in Panama)
Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns (Craig Franklin)
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
We Love but Few by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray (Tomas Peter)
A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore (Group)
Platonic by William B. Terrett (Leanne Yau)
Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges) (Craig Franklin)
The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jason in Panama)
The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Tomas Peter)
The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar (Group)
Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Group)
Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman (Leanne Yau)
Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore (Tomas Peter)
A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger (Craig Franklin)
The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray (Sonia)
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray (Sonia)
The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus (Sonia)
Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington (Craig Franklin)
To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper (Jason in Panama)
Advice by William Dunbar (Craig Franklin)
The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald (Jason in Panama)
Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain (Sonia)
Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns (Group)
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