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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

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Number of Chapters: 108

Length: 08 hours and 07 minutes

Language: English

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter

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Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton (Craig Franklin)
Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Group)
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Adrian Stephens)
Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson (Katharina Glowalla)
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Tomas Peter)
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick (Adam Bielka)
The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope (Adam Bielka)
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (Jason in Panama)
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton (Sonia)
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt (Adrian Stephens)
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore (Katharina Glowalla)
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe (Craig Franklin)
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (Sonia)
City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham (Tomas Peter)
The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey (Katharina Glowalla)
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail (Adam Bielka)
Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden (Tomas Peter)
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant (Sonia)
Mist by Henry David Thoreau (Jason in Panama)
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day (Adrian Stephens)
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau (Adam Bielka)
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) (Sonia)
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman (Jason in Panama)
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell (Adam Bielka)
The Nile by Leigh Hunt (Katharina Glowalla)
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Jason in Panama)
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling (Jason in Panama)
The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron (Adrian Stephens)
The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore (Katharina Glowalla)
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron (Katharina Glowalla)
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey (Sonia)
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Adrian Stephens)
The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp (Adam Bielka)
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (Sonia)
The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron (Adrian Stephens)
The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron (Adrian Stephens)
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Craig Franklin)
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse (Tomas Peter)
Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron (Jason in Panama)
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Adrian Stephens)
Venice by John Addington Symonds (Tomas Peter)
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers (Katharina Glowalla)
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough (Tomas Peter)
Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Jason in Panama)
Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers (Adam Bielka)
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read (Sonia)
England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith (Adrian Stephens)
That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Adrian Stephens)
The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott (Sonia)
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne (Katharina Glowalla)
Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott (Tomas Peter)
An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott (Katharina Glowalla)
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes (Tomas Peter)
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith (Group)
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth (Adrian Stephens)
London by John Davidson (Sonia)
The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone (Sonia)
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson (Craig Franklin)
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (Jason in Panama)
The Settler by Alfred B. Street (Tomas Peter)
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier (Group)
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck (Tomas Peter)
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman (Adam Bielka)
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor (Adam Bielka)
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang (Sonia)
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton (Group)
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus') (Tomas Peter)
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein (Katharina Glowalla)
The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil (Katharina Glowalla)
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (Group)
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda (Group)
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér (Group)
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Sonia)
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene (Jason in Panama)
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (Jason in Panama)
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt (Group)
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker (Sonia)
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Group)
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso (Group)
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis (Group)
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (Group)
The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral (Group)
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt (Group)
The Glove by Robert Browning (Group)
Louis XV by John Sterling (Group)
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning (Group)
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell (Group)
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning (Group)
Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer (Sonia)
Lord Lovel by Anonymous (Group)
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous (Group)
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey (Group)
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare (Adrian Stephens)
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg (Group)
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell (Group)
Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott (Group)
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott (Group)
Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott (Group)
Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine (Group)
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (Group)
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier (Group)
The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche (Group)
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe (Group)
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