The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Various,

Language: English

Genre(s): Anthologies Poetry

1 / 152To Myself by Paul Fleming

00:00

152 Chapter(s)

1. To Myself by Paul Fleming
2. The Flower by George Herbert
3. Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton
4. Invictus by William Ernest Henley
5. Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle
6. Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere
7. My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson
8. The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9. Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell
10. Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch
11. The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart
12. Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson
13. Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough
14. God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick
15. Sonnet by Louise Labé
16. Waiting by John Burroughs
17. Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett
18. Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine
19. Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
20. I Hold Still by Julius Sturm
21. The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22. When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette
23. Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien
24. The Saddest Fate by Anonymous
25. The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood
26. Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
27. Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
28. Sic Vita by Henry King
29. Death the Leveller by James Shirley
30. Virtue Immortal by George Herbert
31. Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell
32. Mortality by William Knox
33. The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
34. The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
35. A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron
36. The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge
37. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
38. A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill
39. Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
40. The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias
41. Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous
42. On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont
43. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
44. God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
45. Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing
46. The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell
47. Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy
48. The Dead by Mathilde Blind
49. On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers
50. The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie
51. The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin
52. The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell
53. The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell
54. The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson
55. Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster
56. Jim's Kids by Eugene Field
57. The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
58. On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald
59. Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay
60. Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
61. The Death-bed by Thomas Hood
62. A Death-bed by James Aldrich
63. Requiescat by Matthew Arnold
64. 'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)
65. Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott
66. Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning
67. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
68. Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan
69. Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore
70. Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
71. She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery
72. The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
73. Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
74. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
75. Highland Mary by Robert Burns
76. Fair Helen by Anonymous
77. Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
78. Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
79. After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston
80. Lament for Heliodore by Meleager
81. On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
82. To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns
83. Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton
84. The Passage by Ludwig Uhland
85. Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin
86. Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
87. The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton
88. Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
89. Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
90. Après by Arthur Joseph Munby
91. The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans
92. Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
93. Lavender by Anonymous
94. What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne
95. Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott
96. When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman
97. If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith
98. Awakening by Washington Gladden
99. Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar
100. The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne
101. Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle
102. Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson
103. Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood
104. For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe
105. Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown
106. The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
107. Prospice by Robert Browning
108. I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg
109. Farewell by Walter Savage Landor
110. Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland
111. To Death by Gluck
112. Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett
113. Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland
114. In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne
115. Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr
116. Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
117. The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier
118. They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan
119. The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr
120. Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest
121. Grief for the Dead by Anonymous
122. The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick
123. For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer
124. Watching for Papa by Anonymous
125. My Child by John Pierpont
126. Song by Richard Le Gallienne
127. The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
128. 'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe
129. Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant
130. De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
131. Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
132. Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
133. Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
134. In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson
135. Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
136. Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
137. Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
138. Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
139. The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold
140. Peace by Anonymous
141. Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
142. Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan
143. The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston
144. The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant
145. Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber
146. Lycidas by John Milton
147. After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold
148. It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune
149. There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery
150. Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks
151. Blind by Israel Zangwill
152. The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare

About

This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

Comments

Related Audiobooks

Tags: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) audio, The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) - Various audio, Anthologies audio, Poetry audio, free audiobook, free audio book, audioaz