The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1) - Free Audiobook

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1. The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson
2. Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson
3. Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland
4. Ideality by Hartley Coleridge
5. Fancy by John Keats
6. Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
7. Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare
8. Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick
9. Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
10. Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
11. The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
12. Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph
13. The Fairies by William Allingham
14. Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg
15. The Fairy Child by John Anster
16. Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston
17. The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake
18. Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly
19. Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
20. Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
21. The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo
23. The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton
24. The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton
25. Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns
26. The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine
27. The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28. The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne
29. The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
30. The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow
31. A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
32. A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid
33. The Comet by Charles Sangster
34. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan
35. The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
36. The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston
37. Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell
38. Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser
39. Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser
40. The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spenser
41. The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser
42. The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson
43. Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
44. The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
45. Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
46. Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
47. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
48. Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
49. The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
50. The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller
51. The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly
52. The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
53. Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne
54. A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone
55. Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
56. Sherwood by Alfred Noyes
57. Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson
58. Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young
59. To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson
60. Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore
61. Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young
62. Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson
63. The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon
64. The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare
65. The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson
66. The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
67. A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson
68. What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
69. The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch
70. The Making of Man by John White Chadwick
71. The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond
72. Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám
73. Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift
74. This Life by William Drummond
75. The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton
76. Retribution by Friedrich von Logau
77. The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh
78. The Generous Air by Palladas
79. Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson
80. Life by Richard Henry Wilde
81. Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough
82. Life by George Herbert
83. Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
84. The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland
85. History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
86. My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel
87. Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith
88. London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly
89. The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant
90. L'Allegro by John Milton
91. Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)
92. The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith
93. The Epicure by Anacreon
94. The Indian Weed by Anonymous
95. Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine
96. Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio
97. Il Penseroso by John Milton
98. Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
99. The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney
100. The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge
101. Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
102. Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne
103. Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
104. Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck
105. Opportunity by William Blake
106. Opportunity by John James Ingalls
107. Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky
108. Augury by Edith M. Thomas
109. 'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette
110. A Tear by Samuel Rogers
111. The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury
112. The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill
113. At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton
114. A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier
115. Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson
116. Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller
117. A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller
118. Yussouf by James Russell Lowell
119. Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser
120. Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius
121. Fortune by Sophocles
122. Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
123. Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci
124. The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor
125. Growing Gray by Austin Dobson
126. Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
127. Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe
128. The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale
129. Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller
130. The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope
131. The Will by Dr. John Donne
132. To a Skeleton by Anonymous
133. The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar

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The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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