The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)

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LibriVox recording of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin; Adrian Stephens The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (105MB)

Chapters

• 1. 00 - What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne25:19
• 2. 01 - To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies1:21
• 3. 02 - To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard3:10
• 4. 03 - To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton1:25
• 5. 04 - O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore0:59
• 6. 05 - Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson2:21
• 7. 06 - Napoleon by Victor Hugo2:41
• 8. 07 - Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron6:02
• 9. 08 - On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne2:36
• 10. 09 - George Washington by Anonymous0:43
• 11. 10 - Washington by James Russell Lowell7:35
• 12. 11 - Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes3:13
• 13. 12 - William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell3:26
• 14. 13 - Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps2:04
• 15. 14 - Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor5:38
• 16. 15 - O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman2:14
• 17. 16 - On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder1:19
• 18. 17 - The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman2:59
• 19. 18 - Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell4:23
• 20. 19 - Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson3:41
• 21. 20 - To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson2:45
• 22. 21 - In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell1:15
• 23. 22 - To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil0:46
• 24. 23 - George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning1:19
• 25. 24 - To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson1:14
• 26. 25 - On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons3:09
• 27. 26 - Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse3:08
• 28. 27 - Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon1:34
• 29. 28 - To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland1:22
• 30. 29 - Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick1:17
• 31. 30 - On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson0:59
• 32. 31 - To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson4:27
• 33. 32 - Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson1:09
• 34. 33 - An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton1:32
• 35. 34 - Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge1:18
• 36. 35 - Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich1:14
• 37. 36 - Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood1:03
• 38. 37 - Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden0:55
• 39. 38 - To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth1:27
• 40. 39 - Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth1:23
• 41. 40 - The Sonnet by William Wordsworth1:14
• 42. 41 - Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed1:45
• 43. 42 - To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron1:22
• 44. 43 - Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp1:18
• 45. 44 - Memorabilia by Robert Browning1:08
• 46. 45 - Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok3:06
• 47. 46 - Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor1:19
• 48. 47 - On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth1:23
• 49. 48 - To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons2:03
• 50. 49 - Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott1:41
• 51. 50 - Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier5:42
• 52. 51 - To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats1:10
• 53. 52 - On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning1:22
• 54. 53 - The Lost Leader by Robert Browning3:46
• 55. 54 - Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold4:46
• 56. 55 - From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson2:00
• 57. 56 - In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne2:51
• 58. 57 - A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable4:44
• 59. 58 - Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte2:34
• 60. 59 - Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne1:23
• 61. 60 - To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton1:03
• 62. 61 - Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich1:51
• 63. 62 - Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson8:10
• 64. 63 - Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor1:23
• 65. 64 - The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field2:31
• 66. 65 - Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck1:36
• 67. 66 - Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier3:12
• 68. 67 - Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner2:41
• 69. 68 - On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne1:20
• 70. 69 - Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler1:07
• 71. 70 - Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)3:30
• 72. 71 - Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell1:13
• 73. 72 - Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman2:46
• 74. 73 - Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman1:26
• 75. 74 - Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman1:53
• 76. 75 - Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow2:18
• 77. 76 - Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar1:18
• 78. 77 - To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell2:48
• 79. 78 - Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson1:32
• 80. 79 - House by Robert Browning2:31
• 81. 80 - Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor1:12
• 82. 81 - Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous2:58
• 83. 82 - The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope1:51
• 84. 83 - A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns1:49
• 85. 84 - Chopin by Emma Lazarus4:17
• 86. 85 - The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier4:38
• 87. 86 - Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien6:06