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

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1 / 157The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1. The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2. The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
3. The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
4. The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley
5. The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey
6. A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant
7. The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor
8. The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier
9. The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms
10. The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant
11. Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill
12. The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts
13. Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14. The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt
15. Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith
16. The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor
17. The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White
18. To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
19. Daffodils by William Wordsworth
20. To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell
21. Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke
22. The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
23. The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold
25. To Violets by Robert Herrick
26. A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson
27. The Wreath by Meleager
28. The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
29. Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier
30. The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens
31. The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan
32. The Maize by William W. Fosdick
33. The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier
34. The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley
35. Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck
36. The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer
37. To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns
38. To Blossoms by Robert Herrick
39. The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith
40. The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb
41. Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith
42. The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher
43. Flowers by Thomas Hood
44. 'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore
45. To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
46. The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges
47. Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman
48. The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley
49. Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
50. To the Cuckoo by John Logan
51. To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth
52. Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
53. The Lark Ascending by George Meredith
54. To the Skylark by William Wordsworth
55. To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
56. The Skylark by James Hogg
57. The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana
58. The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter
59. To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
60. To the Nightingale by John Milton
61. The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw
62. Philomena by Matthew Arnold
63. Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper
64. Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
65. The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg
66. To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs
67. The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch
68. The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton
69. The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
70. The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
71. The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
72. The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
73. The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie
74. The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis
75. The English Robin by Harrison Weir
76. Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges
77. The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton
78. The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague
79. The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt
80. The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts
81. Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous
82. Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts
83. The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
84. To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt
85. A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte
86. To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes
87. The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys
88. To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson
90. A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman
91. To a Louse by Robert Burns
92. To a Mouse by Robert Burns
93. The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb
94. Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous
95. The Tiger by William Blake
96. The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath
97. Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania
98. The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci
99. Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
100. Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer
101. To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney
102. Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott
103. The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
104. The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
105. The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anonymous
106. Chiquita by Bret Harte
107. The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson
108. The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
109. The Sea by Bernard Barton
110. The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne
111. Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok
112. The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
113. Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
114. The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman
115. The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans
116. Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous
117. A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
118. Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner
119. Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
120. The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
121. The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
122. The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
123. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham
124. Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell
125. My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper
126. The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin
127. The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe
128. All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin
129. The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry
130. Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin
131. Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
132. The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
133. Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing
134. A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent
135. To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
136. Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby
137. Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell
138. The Storm by George Alexander Stevens
139. The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron
140. The Shipwreck by William Falconer
141. The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
142. The Polar Quest by Richard Burton
143. The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts
144. The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche
145. The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner
146. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
147. With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb
148. The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth
149. The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor
150. Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier
151. Among the Rocks by Robert Browning
152. The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
153. How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell
154. The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt
155. Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin
156. The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond
157. The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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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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