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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

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Read by Sonia, Lian Pang, Tomas Peter and Gaby · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott (30:31)
The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (1:30)
Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (3:26)
Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore (2:19)
Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton) (1:34)
The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1:14)
Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare (1:27)
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood (2:34)
The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns (1:46)
Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney (1:23)
Agatha by Alfred Austin (2:01)
The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson (3:48)
Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (16:28)
Song by Sir Walter Scott (1:12)
Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard (3:27)
To a Portrait by Arthur Symons (1:05)
Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (6:35)
The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine (1:22)
Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle (6:08)
Waly, Waly by Anonymous (3:27)
Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous (3:18)
My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell (3:34)
Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman (0:54)
A Woman's Love by John Hay (2:30)
The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers (0:55)
Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (2:05)
The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham (4:19)
Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell (8:10)
Divided by Jean Ingelow (8:18)
To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot (1:16)
The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) (1:22)
Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (1:38)
Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton (1:52)
Time's Revenge by Agathias (0:58)
The Dream by Lord Byron (12:44)
Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore (2:43)
Blighted Love by Luís de Camões (1:14)
The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1:13)
The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith) (5:26)
Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (4:54)
Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge (7:22)
The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford (2:01)
Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux (1:15)
Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler (0:48)
Parting by Coventry Patmore (1:15)
To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace (0:57)
Good-bye by Anonymous (2:13)
Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns (2:11)
O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (1:34)
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron (2:04)
Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott (2:01)
Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay (3:24)
The Parting Lovers by Anonymous (1:01)
Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay (2:11)
As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore (2:13)
Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough (1:52)
Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron (1:21)
Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron (2:58)
Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton (1:18)
Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare (1:36)
Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford (1:32)
We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford (1:46)
Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell (1:54)
Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell (1:53)
Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore (1:53)
Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer (8:44)
Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer (1:55)
To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace (1:21)
To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier (2:27)
I Love My Jean by Robert Burns (1:12)
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (4:39)
O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns (1:23)
The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir (2:18)
Absence by Frances Anne Kemble (2:17)
Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel (1:50)
Daisy by Francis Thompson (3:26)
Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1:49)
What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire (1:42)
Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (1:21)
Absence by Anonymous (0:43)
Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) (1:19)
"Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1:44)
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb (1:54)
Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan (3:18)
The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous (1:49)
My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster (2:44)
Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster (2:12)
The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper (0:40)
Man by Walter Savage Landor (0:37)
The World by Francis, Lord Bacon (1:45)
Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele (1:24)
The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles (2:34)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare (1:23)
The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus (2:51)
Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton (1:28)
Lines by Chidiock Tichborne (1:50)
Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher (1:21)
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (3:50)
The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe (1:59)
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley (3:11)
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (5:29)
Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter (1:16)
Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron (2:15)
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter (1:41)
The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1:30)
A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley (0:57)
"What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood (1:36)
Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton (7:31)
Old by Ralph Hoyt (7:20)
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (2:27)
The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1:02)
The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger (2:41)
The Beggar by Thomas Moss (2:51)
A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley (5:08)
"They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous (2:24)
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards (2:51)
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (3:48)
The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel (2:18)
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1:51)
Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson (3:30)
London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1:33)
The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood (4:39)
Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous (3:09)
The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (4:39)
Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1:15)