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

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

Chapters

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To Myself by Paul Fleming (1:07)
The Flower by George Herbert (3:17)
Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton (1:13)
Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1:07)
Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle (5:54)
Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1:17)
My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson (2:37)
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1:33)
Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell (1:47)
Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch (3:08)
The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart (4:48)
Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson (2:00)
Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough (1:15)
God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick (1:42)
Sonnet by Louise Labé (1:06)
Waiting by John Burroughs (1:25)
Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett (3:19)
Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine (1:42)
Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1:03)
I Hold Still by Julius Sturm (2:29)
The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1:15)
When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette (3:04)
Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien (1:30)
The Saddest Fate by Anonymous (1:31)
The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood (3:35)
Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1:46)
Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (3:00)
Sic Vita by Henry King (1:02)
Death the Leveller by James Shirley (1:30)
Virtue Immortal by George Herbert (1:48)
Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell (1:32)
Mortality by William Knox (3:34)
The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (3:31)
The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (0:38)
A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron (3:00)
The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge (2:20)
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (4:55)
A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill (1:52)
Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1:23)
The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias (0:50)
Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous (1:00)
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont (1:16)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (8:10)
God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1:33)
Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing (1:44)
The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell (1:22)
Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy (1:03)
The Dead by Mathilde Blind (1:39)
On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers (1:10)
The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie (2:12)
The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin (2:09)
The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell (2:03)
The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell (3:43)
The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1:04)
Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster (3:54)
Jim's Kids by Eugene Field (2:44)
The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (14:38)
On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald (2:11)
Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay (1:18)
Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1:26)
The Death-bed by Thomas Hood (1:02)
A Death-bed by James Aldrich (0:45)
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold (1:10)
'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) (2:11)
Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott (1:57)
Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (3:21)
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (2:13)
Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan (2:18)
Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore (2:50)
Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1:16)
She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery (1:29)
The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4:58)
Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6:08)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (1:29)
Highland Mary by Robert Burns (1:49)
Fair Helen by Anonymous (2:09)
Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (4:15)
Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1:36)
After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston (2:15)
Lament for Heliodore by Meleager (1:22)
On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1:25)
To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns (2:09)
Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton (2:40)
The Passage by Ludwig Uhland (1:32)
Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin (2:35)
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1:10)
The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton (2:34)
Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (1:48)
Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (8:34)
Après by Arthur Joseph Munby (1:41)
The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans (2:07)
Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1:06)
Lavender by Anonymous (3:26)
What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne (1:31)
Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott (1:50)
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman (16:14)
If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith (2:03)
Awakening by Washington Gladden (3:14)
Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar (2:10)
The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne (1:13)
Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle (2:37)
Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (2:47)
Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood (1:41)
For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe (3:24)
Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown (1:15)
The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2:31)
Prospice by Robert Browning (2:20)
I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg (3:18)
Farewell by Walter Savage Landor (0:37)
Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland (1:08)
To Death by Gluck (2:16)
Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett (2:23)
Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland (1:39)
In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne (2:08)
Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr (1:15)
Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1:54)
The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier (1:38)
They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan (2:23)
The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr (2:08)
Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest (3:55)
Grief for the Dead by Anonymous (1:42)
The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick (2:55)
For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer (4:22)
Watching for Papa by Anonymous (1:27)
My Child by John Pierpont (4:22)
Song by Richard Le Gallienne (1:03)
The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1:30)
'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2:01)
Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant (1:27)
De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (5:27)
Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1:33)
Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2:57)
Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey (1:05)
In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson (1:39)
Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1:48)
Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2:39)
Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1:44)
Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1:10)
The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold (4:18)
Peace by Anonymous (1:05)
Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3:08)
Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan (2:45)
The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston (0:56)
The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant (5:38)
Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber (1:28)
Lycidas by John Milton (11:12)
After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold (4:04)
It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune (1:39)
There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery (4:19)
Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks (1:47)
Blind by Israel Zangwill (1:59)
The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare (1:29)