The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2) - Free Audiobook

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1 / 112Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers

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1. Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers
2. Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3. Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne
4. Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge
5. A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter
6. The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice
7. Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci
8. There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates
9. Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper
10. Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore
12. On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau
13. 'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth
14. The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly
15. Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius
16. The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth
17. Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch
18. Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón
19. My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer
20. To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial
21. Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux
22. A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats
23. The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky
24. Æsop by Andrew Lang
25. Indirection by Richard Realf
26. Proem by Madison Cawein
27. The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
28. Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller
29. The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron
30. Impression by Edmund Gosse
31. The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave
32. On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
33. The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)
34. Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth
35. The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson
36. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
37. The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang
38. Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
39. The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers
40. The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder
41. An Autograph by James Russell Lowell
42. Art by Sir Gilbert Parker
43. Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
44. The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell
45. The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson
46. Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor
47. Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby
48. Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne
49. One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser
50. The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
51. Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr
52. The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
53. The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius
54. Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson
55. Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous
56. The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
57. The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard
58. Books by John Higgins
59. Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
60. Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
61. To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley
62. The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder
63. A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden
64. The Spell by Paul Verlaine
65. The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins
66. Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley
67. Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden
68. Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey
69. Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman
70. On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
71. The Artist by Arthur Grissom
72. A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton
73. On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson
74. Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman
75. The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford
76. Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood
77. The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones
78. 'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham
79. 'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney
80. Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott
81. For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns
82. The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay
83. The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
84. Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates
85. The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker
86. The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine
87. Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
88. Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
89. Work by Henry van Dyke
90. A Wish by Abraham Cowley
91. Contentment by Joshua Sylvester
92. Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene
93. Song by John Bunyan
94. In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange
95. Cleon and I by Charles Mackay
96. The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams
97. Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes
98. Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
99. To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston
100. A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend
101. The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold
102. Rest by Margaret L. Woods
103. Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher
104. Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
105. Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
106. Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
107. Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth
108. Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson
109. The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton
110. The Two Oceans by John Sterling
111. Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne
112. The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney

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The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter

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