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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

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Read by Sonia, Leanne Yau, Tomas Peter, Jason in Panama, Craig Franklin and Foon · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere (22:25)
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor (4:07)
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides (6:21)
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis (10:01)
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne (4:47)
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (6:06)
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (10:57)
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo (2:10)
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold (26:40)
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard (2:41)
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller (11:22)
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey (5:08)
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker (21:28)
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (2:02)
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley (13:35)
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan (7:33)
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers (6:30)
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans (5:14)
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron (19:12)
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson (1:52)
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning (26:10)
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (2:56)
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (5:39)
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous (1:44)
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis (6:04)
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling (2:22)
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey (21:56)
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow (9:00)
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (8:16)
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood (10:03)
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins (7:01)
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling (3:29)
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous (4:32)
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte (3:31)
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott (2:52)
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley (1:33)
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper (2:08)
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley (1:33)
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans (2:50)
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4:49)
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien (4:48)
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey (1:48)
Woman by Anonymous (0:47)
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg (2:41)
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington (1:24)
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes (1:20)
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger (4:54)
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray (1:12)
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey (3:20)
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (5:41)
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous (1:55)
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe (2:14)
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler (19:34)
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden (1:40)
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe (9:56)
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson (3:15)
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous (0:50)