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World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)

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

Chapters

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Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous (2:22)
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous (6:42)
Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger (1:58)
I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe (1:33)
Good Ale by John Still (2:35)
The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (3:36)
The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous (4:52)
Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler (2:09)
The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous (2:48)
Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger (4:02)
The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor (2:47)
Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood (2:23)
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith (1:34)
Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene (2:34)
Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith (1:46)
The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell (2:05)
Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood (3:30)
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood (3:31)
Orator Puff by Thomas Moore (2:11)
The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith (2:40)
The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper (11:13)
Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2:22)
The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (3:51)
Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin (3:48)
Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at Waterloo by George Canning (2:07)
Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1:28)
Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning (3:12)
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray (2:14)
Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert (4:48)
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert (4:59)
The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood (4:06)
Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns (1:56)
To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert (1:19)
The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper (2:18)
The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift (0:47)
Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck (4:39)
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough (1:32)
The New Church Organ by Will Carleton (4:21)
Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift (1:30)
The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn (2:36)
The Recruit by Robert William Chambers (3:16)
Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland (2:22)
Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland (2:50)
Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams (2:13)
Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams (3:02)
The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) (7:53)
America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell (2:21)
What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lowell (3:40)
Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous (1:44)
The Compliment by Eugene Field (1:19)
The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields (2:29)
The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (7:04)
Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley (2:56)
He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss (1:59)
The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous (4:47)
To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson (4:09)
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay (2:50)
To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte (4:35)
Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay (2:56)
Jim by Bret Harte (2:05)
Banty Tim by John Hay (2:57)
Dow's Flat by Bret Harte (4:00)
The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte (3:03)
Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by Bret Harte (2:35)
A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton (1:12)
De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell (4:00)
Perils of Thinking by Anonymous (0:45)
Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell (2:04)
A Life's Love by Anonymous (1:36)
Darwin by Mortimer Collins (0:36)
Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver Wendell Holmes (2:26)
Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall (2:31)
A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymous (2:17)
A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith (1:44)
Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley (1:56)
A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb (7:23)
Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous (0:58)
From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin (2:02)
A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous (0:52)
The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous (4:14)
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning (2:42)
Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh (2:47)
The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley (7:34)
The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley (2:37)
Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley (4:03)
Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne (3:30)
The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley (2:17)
The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous (0:58)
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Robert H. Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr) (8:19)
Belagcholly Days by Anonymous (1:50)
Sneezing by Leigh Hunt (1:09)
To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) (0:51)
Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen (1:10)
A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2:22)
'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley (2:04)
Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous (2:06)
My Love by Anonymous (1:39)
Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard (1:39)
Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1:03)
Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood (2:42)
Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe (2:34)
Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell (0:47)
The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form by Anonymous (1:11)
The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell (1:07)
The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous (1:17)
The Hen by Matthias Claudius (1:45)
Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope (3:48)
Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley (3:05)
Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley (2:38)
Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord (1:01)
On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley (2:50)
The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche (2:23)
Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole (1:30)
Of Blue China by Andrew Lang (1:37)
A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe (2:07)
A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan (2:44)
Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous (2:35)
Nonsense by Thomas Moore (1:02)
The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess (0:36)
Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess (0:58)
The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (3:55)
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1:46)
For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch) (0:48)