The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)

Author(s): Various

Narrators: Group, Craig Franklin, Adrian Stephens, Jason In Panama, Sonia, Tomas Peter

Number of Chapters: 87

Length: 03 hours and 52 minutes

Language: English

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter

What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne (Group)

To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies (Craig Franklin)

To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard (Adrian Stephens)

To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton (Jason in Panama)

O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore (Sonia)

Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson (Sonia)

Napoleon by Victor Hugo (Tomas Peter)

Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron (Craig Franklin)

On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Sonia)

George Washington by Anonymous (Adrian Stephens)

Washington by James Russell Lowell (Tomas Peter)

Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Craig Franklin)

William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell (Sonia)

Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps (Adrian Stephens)

Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor (Jason in Panama)

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman (Tomas Peter)

On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder (Adrian Stephens)

The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Jason in Panama)

Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)

Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Craig Franklin)

To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)

In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)

To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil (Tomas Peter)

George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Jason in Panama)

To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Sonia)

On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons (Sonia)

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse (Adrian Stephens)

Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon (Craig Franklin)

To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland (Tomas Peter)

Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick (Tomas Peter)

On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson (Jason in Panama)

To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson (Sonia)

Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson (Jason in Panama)

An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton (Craig Franklin)

Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge (Jason in Panama)

Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Sonia)

Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood (Craig Franklin)

Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden (Sonia)

To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth (Tomas Peter)

Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth (Jason in Panama)

The Sonnet by William Wordsworth (Sonia)

Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (Jason in Panama)

To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron (Craig Franklin)

Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp (Tomas Peter)

Memorabilia by Robert Browning (Sonia)

Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok (Craig Franklin)

Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor (Adrian Stephens)

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth (Tomas Peter)

To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons (Craig Franklin)

Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott (Tomas Peter)

Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier (Sonia)

To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats (Sonia)

On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Adrian Stephens)

The Lost Leader by Robert Browning (Craig Franklin)

Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold (Tomas Peter)

From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson (Tomas Peter)

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Jason in Panama)

A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable (Adrian Stephens)

Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte (Tomas Peter)

Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Adrian Stephens)

To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (Tomas Peter)

Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Sonia)

Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson (Adrian Stephens)

Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor (Jason in Panama)

The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field (Adrian Stephens)

Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck (Jason in Panama)

Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier (Tomas Peter)

Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner (Craig Franklin)

On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Sonia)

Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler (Adrian Stephens)

Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) (Jason in Panama)

Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell (Craig Franklin)

Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman (Adrian Stephens)

Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman (Craig Franklin)

Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Jason in Panama)

Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Jason in Panama)

Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Adrian Stephens)

To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell (Jason in Panama)

Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson (Adrian Stephens)

House by Robert Browning (Adrian Stephens)

Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor (Craig Franklin)

Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)

The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope (Sonia)

A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns (Adrian Stephens)

Chopin by Emma Lazarus (Tomas Peter)

The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier (Sonia)

Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien (Jason in Panama)

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