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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)

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Number of Chapters: 157

Length: 06 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Jason in Panama)
The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor (Leanne Yau)
The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley (Tomas Peter)
The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey (Leanne Yau)
A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant (Craig Franklin)
The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor (Jason in Panama)
The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier (Sonia)
The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms (Craig Franklin)
The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant (Group)
Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (Sonia)
The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts (Tomas Peter)
Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Leanne Yau)
The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt (Craig Franklin)
Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith (Leanne Yau)
The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor (Craig Franklin)
The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White (Jason in Panama)
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (Sonia)
Daffodils by William Wordsworth (Leanne Yau)
To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)
Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke (Sonia)
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Leanne Yau)
The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Jason in Panama)
Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold (Tomas Peter)
To Violets by Robert Herrick (Jason in Panama)
A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson (Sonia)
The Wreath by Meleager (Leanne Yau)
The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (Tomas Peter)
Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier (Sonia)
The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens (Jason in Panama)
The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan (Sonia)
The Maize by William W. Fosdick (Jason in Panama)
The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier (Jason in Panama)
The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Tomas Peter)
Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck (Tomas Peter)
The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer (Sonia)
To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns (Tomas Peter)
To Blossoms by Robert Herrick (Craig Franklin)
The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith (Jason in Panama)
The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb (Craig Franklin)
Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith (Tomas Peter)
The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher (Group)
Flowers by Thomas Hood (Tomas Peter)
'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore (Sonia)
To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (Jason in Panama)
The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges (Craig Franklin)
Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman (Jason in Panama)
The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley (Tomas Peter)
Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery (Tomas Peter)
To the Cuckoo by John Logan (Sonia)
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (Leanne Yau)
Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (Jason in Panama)
To the Skylark by William Wordsworth (Craig Franklin)
To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Sonia)
The Skylark by James Hogg (Tomas Peter)
The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana (Sonia)
The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter (Craig Franklin)
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (Jason in Panama)
To the Nightingale by John Milton (Leanne Yau)
The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw (Sonia)
Philomena by Matthew Arnold (Tomas Peter)
Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper (Leanne Yau)
Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant (Tomas Peter)
The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg (Group)
To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs (Tomas Peter)
The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch (Jason in Panama)
The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton (Leanne Yau)
The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Craig Franklin)
The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Sonia)
The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie (Jason in Panama)
The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Tomas Peter)
The English Robin by Harrison Weir (Leanne Yau)
Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges (Leanne Yau)
The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton (Sonia)
The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague (Leanne Yau)
The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt (Jason in Panama)
The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts (Craig Franklin)
Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous (Sonia)
Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts (Group)
The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats (Jason in Panama)
To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt (Leanne Yau)
A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte (Tomas Peter)
To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jason in Panama)
The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys (Craig Franklin)
To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Jason in Panama)
Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson (Tomas Peter)
A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman (Sonia)
To a Louse by Robert Burns (Sonia)
To a Mouse by Robert Burns (Craig Franklin)
The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb (Jason in Panama)
Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous (Craig Franklin)
The Tiger by William Blake (Tomas Peter)
The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath (Leanne Yau)
Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania (Craig Franklin)
The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci (Sonia)
Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Jason in Panama)
Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer (Tomas Peter)
To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney (Tomas Peter)
Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott (Craig Franklin)
The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (Craig Franklin)
The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Jason in Panama)
The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anonymous (Sonia)
Chiquita by Bret Harte (Tomas Peter)
The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Leanne Yau)
The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron (Tomas Peter)
The Sea by Bernard Barton (Craig Franklin)
The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Leanne Yau)
Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok (Craig Franklin)
The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Sonia)
Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Jason in Panama)
The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman (Craig Franklin)
The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans (Sonia)
Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Tomas Peter)
Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner (Craig Franklin)
Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tomas Peter)
The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Craig Franklin)
The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery (Leanne Yau)
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jason in Panama)
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham (Sonia)
Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell (Sonia)
My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper (Craig Franklin)
The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin (Sonia)
The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe (Sonia)
All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin (Group)
The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry (Tomas Peter)
Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin (Sonia)
Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell (Tomas Peter)
The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Sonia)
Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing (Craig Franklin)
A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent (Leanne Yau)
To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (Jason in Panama)
Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby (Tomas Peter)
Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell (Group)
The Storm by George Alexander Stevens (Craig Franklin)
The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron (Leanne Yau)
The Shipwreck by William Falconer (Sonia)
The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Leanne Yau)
The Polar Quest by Richard Burton (Craig Franklin)
The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts (Leanne Yau)
The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche (Leanne Yau)
The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner (Sonia)
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (Leanne Yau)
With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb (Leanne Yau)
The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth (Jason in Panama)
The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor (Sonia)
Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier (Tomas Peter)
Among the Rocks by Robert Browning (Sonia)
The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey (Group)
How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell (Sonia)
The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt (Sonia)
Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin (Jason in Panama)
The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond (Tomas Peter)
The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Leanne Yau)
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