The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

Author(s): Various

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

Number of Chapters: 152

Length: 06 hours and 21 minutes

Language: English

This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

To Myself by Paul Fleming (Lian Pang)

The Flower by George Herbert (Gaby)

Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton (Sonia)

Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Sonia)

Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle (Tomas Peter)

Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (Sonia)

My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson (Tomas Peter)

The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Gaby)

Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell (Lian Pang)

Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch (Gaby)

The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart (Sonia)

Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson (Tomas Peter)

Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough (Lian Pang)

God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick (Lian Pang)

Sonnet by Louise Labé (Lian Pang)

Waiting by John Burroughs (Sonia)

Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett (Tomas Peter)

Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine (Tomas Peter)

Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (Gaby)

I Hold Still by Julius Sturm (Gaby)

The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Sonia)

When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette (Gaby)

Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien (Sonia)

The Saddest Fate by Anonymous (Sonia)

The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood (Tomas Peter)

Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Gaby)

Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Gaby)

Sic Vita by Henry King (Sonia)

Death the Leveller by James Shirley (Lian Pang)

Virtue Immortal by George Herbert (Gaby)

Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell (Lian Pang)

Mortality by William Knox (Sonia)

The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (Gaby)

The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (Lian Pang)

A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron (Gaby)

The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge (Tomas Peter)

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (Lian Pang)

A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill (Gaby)

Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Lian Pang)

The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias (Lian Pang)

Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous (Gaby)

On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont (Tomas Peter)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (Tomas Peter)

God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Lian Pang)

Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing (Tomas Peter)

The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell (Sonia)

Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy (Lian Pang)

The Dead by Mathilde Blind (Gaby)

On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers (Gaby)

The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie (Tomas Peter)

The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin (Lian Pang)

The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell (Sonia)

The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell (Gaby)

The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson (Sonia)

Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster (Gaby)

Jim's Kids by Eugene Field (Tomas Peter)

The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Gaby)

On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald (Lian Pang)

Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay (Sonia)

Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (Tomas Peter)

The Death-bed by Thomas Hood (Sonia)

A Death-bed by James Aldrich (Lian Pang)

Requiescat by Matthew Arnold (Tomas Peter)

'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) (Sonia)

Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott (Gaby)

Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (Tomas Peter)

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (Tomas Peter)

Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan (Lian Pang)

Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore (Sonia)

Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Lian Pang)

She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery (Gaby)

The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Group)

Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonia)

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)

Highland Mary by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

Fair Helen by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Tomas Peter)

Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Lian Pang)

After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston (Gaby)

Lament for Heliodore by Meleager (Tomas Peter)

On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (Sonia)

To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)

Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton (Lian Pang)

The Passage by Ludwig Uhland (Sonia)

Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin (Tomas Peter)

Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)

The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton (Tomas Peter)

Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)

Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)

Après by Arthur Joseph Munby (Tomas Peter)

The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans (Tomas Peter)

Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)

Lavender by Anonymous (Gaby)

What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne (Sonia)

Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott (Gaby)

When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman (Tomas Peter)

If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith (Sonia)

Awakening by Washington Gladden (Lian Pang)

Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar (Lian Pang)

The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne (Tomas Peter)

Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle (Tomas Peter)

Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (Sonia)

Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood (Gaby)

For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe (Tomas Peter)

Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown (Sonia)

The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Lian Pang)

Prospice by Robert Browning (Gaby)

I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg (Lian Pang)

Farewell by Walter Savage Landor (Lian Pang)

Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland (Sonia)

To Death by Gluck (Gaby)

Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett (Lian Pang)

Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland (Gaby)

In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne (Tomas Peter)

Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr (Sonia)

Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (Lian Pang)

The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier (Lian Pang)

They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan (Lian Pang)

The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr (Sonia)

Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest (Gaby)

Grief for the Dead by Anonymous (Lian Pang)

The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick (Gaby)

For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer (Tomas Peter)

Watching for Papa by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

My Child by John Pierpont (Gaby)

Song by Richard Le Gallienne (Gaby)

The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Lian Pang)

'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Lian Pang)

Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant (Lian Pang)

De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Tomas Peter)

Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (Sonia)

Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Sonia)

Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey (Lian Pang)

In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson (Tomas Peter)

Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Gaby)

Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Lian Pang)

Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (Sonia)

Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Lian Pang)

The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold (Sonia)

Peace by Anonymous (Lian Pang)

Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Gaby)

Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan (Sonia)

The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston (Sonia)

The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant (Gaby)

Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber (Lian Pang)

Lycidas by John Milton (Tomas Peter)

After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold (Tomas Peter)

It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune (Gaby)

There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery (Gaby)

Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks (Sonia)

Blind by Israel Zangwill (Gaby)

The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare (Sonia)

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