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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)

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Number of Chapters: 159

Length: 06 hours and 28 minutes

Language: English

The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts (Group)
The World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William Wordsworth (Leanne Yau)
Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Leanne Yau)
On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling (Sonia)
God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning (Craig Franklin)
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth (Tomas Peter)
Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Jason in Panama)
The Country Faith by Norman Gale (Tomas Peter)
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (Craig Franklin)
Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder (Sonia)
Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles (Leanne Yau)
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray (Tomas Peter)
Nature by Jones Very (Jason in Panama)
Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth (Craig Franklin)
An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats (Leanne Yau)
The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth (Tomas Peter)
Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott (Group)
The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey (Leanne Yau)
Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton (Tomas Peter)
Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton (Craig Franklin)
Light by George MacDonald (Jason in Panama)
The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (Leanne Yau)
From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley (Craig Franklin)
Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder (Leanne Yau)
Morning Song by Joanna Baillie (Tomas Peter)
Morning by John Cunningham (Tomas Peter)
Pack Clouds Away by Thomas Heywood (Leanne Yau)
Morning: From 'The Minstrel' by James Beattie (Craig Franklin)
Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge (Sonia)
The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Craig Franklin)
A Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur (Jason in Panama)
Noontide by John Leyden (Sonia)
A Summer Noon by William Howitt (Leanne Yau)
The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert Tannahill (Tomas Peter)
Sunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Leanne Yau)
Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Craig Franklin)
Day Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot) (Tomas Peter)
The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott (Group)
Evening by Archibald Lampman (Jason in Panama)
A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale (Craig Franklin)
To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell (Leanne Yau)
The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant (Sonia)
Evening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton (Leanne Yau)
Evening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron (Tomas Peter)
Moonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Group)
To Delia by Samuel Daniel (Craig Franklin)
The Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by Homer (Jason in Panama)
To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Group)
Night by Joseph Blanco White (Sonia)
Night: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord Byron (Craig Franklin)
Night: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Leanne Yau)
Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. Roberts (Craig Franklin)
A Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James Thomson (Tomas Peter)
March by William Morris (Group)
When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Tomas Peter)
March by William Wordsworth (Sonia)
Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe (Jason in Panama)
Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard (Craig Franklin)
Spring by Thomas Gray (Jason in Panama)
Summer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthy (Tomas Peter)
Sweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas Carew (Jason in Panama)
Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning (Leanne Yau)
May Morning by Celia Thaxter (Sonia)
Song (On May Morning) by John Milton (Jason in Panama)
Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod (Leanne Yau)
Spring by Ebenezer Elliott (Leanne Yau)
Die Down, O Dismal Day by David Gray (Jason in Panama)
Morning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer (Sonia)
Cuckoo Song by Anonymous (Sonia)
Spring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Tomas Peter)
Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Leanne Yau)
The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jason in Panama)
The Plough by Richard Hengist Horne (Craig Franklin)
They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell (Tomas Peter)
Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley (Leanne Yau)
A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell (Jason in Panama)
June by William Cullen Bryant (Sonia)
The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume (Jason in Panama)
Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley (Tomas Peter)
Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley (Tomas Peter)
Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett (Leanne Yau)
Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Sonia)
Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner (Leanne Yau)
Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell (Tomas Peter)
After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Jason in Panama)
A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne (Craig Franklin)
Rain by Ebenezer Jones (Leanne Yau)
The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies (Sonia)
Wicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-Armstrong (Craig Franklin)
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Tomas Peter)
The Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes (Group)
The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Leanne Yau)
Summer Moods by John Clare (Sonia)
In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton (Tomas Peter)
The Angler's Wish by Izaak Walton (Jason in Panama)
The Angler by John Chalkhill (Craig Franklin)
Swimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord Byron (Jason in Panama)
The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana (Jason in Panama)
The Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. Roberts (Tomas Peter)
September by George Arnold (Craig Franklin)
The Latter Rain by Jones Very (Jason in Panama)
To Autumn by John Keats (Tomas Peter)
Harvest Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty (Sonia)
Life in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton Cooke (Leanne Yau)
Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott (Craig Franklin)
The Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Tomas Peter)
The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William Browne (Sonia)
A Hunting We Will Go by Henry Fielding (Leanne Yau)
The Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott (Group)
The Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James Thomson (Jason in Panama)
The Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Craig Franklin)
Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb (Jason in Panama)
No! by Thomas Hood (Leanne Yau)
When the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley (Tomas Peter)
Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Tomas Peter)
When Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Winter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias Claudius (Jason in Panama)
Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas (Jason in Panama)
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
December by Joel Benton (Craig Franklin)
Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge (Sonia)
The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Tomas Peter)
The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald (Craig Franklin)
The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant (Leanne Yau)
'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Leanne Yau)
A Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage Eastman (Sonia)
Winter by John Howard Bryant (Craig Franklin)
Winter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James Thomson (Leanne Yau)
Winter Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty (Tomas Peter)
Winter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William Cowper (Jason in Panama)
Sleigh Song by G.W. Pettee (Sonia)
Our Skater Belle by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
O Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David Gray (Jason in Panama)
A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (Sonia)
The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant (Sonia)
Song of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)
The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms (Leanne Yau)
A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)
The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill (Craig Franklin)
Song of the River by Charles Kingsley (Jason in Panama)
Afton Water by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
The Snows by Charles Sangster (Tomas Peter)
My River by Eduard Mörike (Leanne Yau)
On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles (Sonia)
Oxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold (Craig Franklin)
The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (Jason in Panama)
To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival (Tomas Peter)
The Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats (Tomas Peter)
Calm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron (Jason in Panama)
The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster (Sonia)
Storm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron (Craig Franklin)
Dover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Choral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by Euripides (Sonia)
An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers (Craig Franklin)
From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Sonia)
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