The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

Author(s): Various

Narrators: Group, Gaby, Tomas Peter, Sonia, Lian Pang

Number of Chapters: 125

Length: 06 hours and 05 minutes

Language: English

The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter

An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott (Group)

The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Gaby)

Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Tomas Peter)

Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore (Sonia)

Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton) (Lian Pang)

The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Sonia)

Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)

Fair Ines by Thomas Hood (Gaby)

The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney (Lian Pang)

Agatha by Alfred Austin (Sonia)

The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson (Lian Pang)

Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Tomas Peter)

Song by Sir Walter Scott (Lian Pang)

Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard (Tomas Peter)

To a Portrait by Arthur Symons (Lian Pang)

Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (Gaby)

The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine (Gaby)

Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle (Sonia)

Waly, Waly by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous (Lian Pang)

My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell (Tomas Peter)

Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman (Lian Pang)

A Woman's Love by John Hay (Lian Pang)

The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers (Gaby)

Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Gaby)

The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham (Sonia)

Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell (Tomas Peter)

Divided by Jean Ingelow (Gaby)

To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot (Gaby)

The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) (Sonia)

Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (Gaby)

Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton (Lian Pang)

Time's Revenge by Agathias (Sonia)

The Dream by Lord Byron (Gaby)

Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore (Gaby)

Blighted Love by Luís de Camões (Lian Pang)

The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tomas Peter)

The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith) (Gaby)

Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Lian Pang)

Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge (Gaby)

The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford (Sonia)

Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux (Lian Pang)

Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler (Lian Pang)

Parting by Coventry Patmore (Sonia)

To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace (Tomas Peter)

Good-bye by Anonymous (Gaby)

Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron (Gaby)

Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott (Tomas Peter)

Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay (Gaby)

The Parting Lovers by Anonymous (Sonia)

Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay (Tomas Peter)

As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore (Gaby)

Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough (Sonia)

Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron (Gaby)

Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron (Tomas Peter)

Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton (Sonia)

Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare (Gaby)

Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford (Lian Pang)

We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford (Lian Pang)

Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell (Gaby)

Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell (Gaby)

Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore (Sonia)

Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer (Group)

Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer (Tomas Peter)

To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace (Lian Pang)

To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier (Sonia)

I Love My Jean by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (Tomas Peter)

O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir (Tomas Peter)

Absence by Frances Anne Kemble (Lian Pang)

Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel (Sonia)

Daisy by Francis Thompson (Gaby)

Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (Sonia)

What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire (Tomas Peter)

Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)

Absence by Anonymous (Lian Pang)

Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) (Sonia)

"Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Lian Pang)

The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb (Tomas Peter)

Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan (Gaby)

The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous (Sonia)

My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster (Lian Pang)

Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster (Lian Pang)

The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper (Sonia)

Man by Walter Savage Landor (Lian Pang)

The World by Francis, Lord Bacon (Sonia)

Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele (Sonia)

The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles (Tomas Peter)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare (Lian Pang)

The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus (Sonia)

Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton (Lian Pang)

Lines by Chidiock Tichborne (Gaby)

Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher (Lian Pang)

The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)

The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe (Sonia)

Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gaby)

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (Tomas Peter)

Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter (Sonia)

Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron (Sonia)

A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter (Lian Pang)

The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sonia)

A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Tomas Peter)

"What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood (Gaby)

Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton (Gaby)

Old by Ralph Hoyt (Tomas Peter)

The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gaby)

The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Sonia)

The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger (Sonia)

The Beggar by Thomas Moss (Tomas Peter)

A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley (Gaby)

"They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards (Lian Pang)

The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (Lian Pang)

The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel (Sonia)

Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Tomas Peter)

Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson (Sonia)

London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (Lian Pang)

The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood (Gaby)

Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Gaby)

Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonia)

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