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

Chapters

1. 0 An Interpreter of Life by Lyman AbbottSonia, Lian Pang, Tomas Peter, Gaby 30:31
2. 1 The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareGaby 1:30
3. 2 Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord TennysonTomas Peter 3:26
4. 3 Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas MooreSonia 2:19
5. 4 Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)Lian Pang 1:34
6. 5 The Princess by Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonSonia 1:14
7. 6 Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William ShakespeareLian Pang, Tomas Peter 1:27
8. 7 Fair Ines by Thomas HoodGaby 2:34
9. 8 The Banks o' Doon by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 1:46
10. 9 Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip SidneyLian Pang 1:23
11. 10 Agatha by Alfred AustinSonia 2:01
12. 11 The Sun-Dial by Austin DobsonLian Pang 3:48
13. 12 Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord TennysonTomas Peter 16:28
14. 13 Song by Sir Walter ScottLian Pang 1:12
15. 14 Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne BarnardTomas Peter 3:27
16. 15 To a Portrait by Arthur SymonsLian Pang 1:05
17. 16 Maud Muller by John Greenleaf WhittierGaby 6:35
18. 17 The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich HeineGaby 1:22
19. 18 Cumnor Hall by William Julius MickleSonia 6:08
20. 19 Waly, Waly by AnonymousTomas Peter 3:27
21. 20 Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by AnonymousLian Pang 3:18
22. 21 My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William MotherwellTomas Peter 3:34
23. 22 Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale EastmanLian Pang 0:54
24. 23 A Woman's Love by John HayLian Pang 2:30
25. 24 The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron RogersGaby 0:55
26. 25 Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'ShaughnessyGaby 2:05
27. 26 The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William AllinghamSonia 4:19
28. 27 Home, Wounded by Sydney DobellTomas Peter 8:10
29. 28 Divided by Jean IngelowGaby 8:18
30. 29 To Diane de Poitiers by Clément MarotGaby 1:16
31. 30 The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)Sonia 1:22
32. 31 Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John FletcherGaby 1:38
33. 32 Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert AytonLian Pang 1:52
34. 33 Time's Revenge by AgathiasSonia 0:58
35. 34 The Dream by Lord ByronGaby 12:44
36. 35 Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas MooreGaby 2:43
37. 36 Blighted Love by Luís de CamõesLian Pang 1:14
38. 37 The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel RossettiTomas Peter 1:13
39. 38 The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)Gaby 5:26
40. 39 Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikLian Pang 4:54
41. 40 Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend TrowbridgeGaby 7:22
42. 41 The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott SpoffordSonia 2:01
43. 42 Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le RouxLian Pang 1:15
44. 43 Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-ButlerLian Pang 0:48
45. 44 Parting by Coventry PatmoreSonia 1:15
46. 45 To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard LovelaceTomas Peter 0:57
47. 46 Good-bye by AnonymousGaby 2:13
48. 47 Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 2:11
49. 48 O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 1:34
50. 49 Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord ByronGaby 2:04
51. 50 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 ScottTomas Peter 2:01
52. 51 Black-Eyed Susan by John GayGaby 3:24
53. 52 The Parting Lovers by AnonymousSonia 1:01
54. 53 Lochaber No More by Allan RamsayTomas Peter 2:11
55. 54 As Slow Our Ship by Thomas MooreGaby 2:13
56. 55 Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh CloughSonia 1:52
57. 56 Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord ByronGaby 1:21
58. 57 Farewell to His Wife by Lord ByronTomas Peter 2:58
59. 58 Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael DraytonSonia 1:18
60. 59 Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William ShakespeareGaby 1:36
61. 60 Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) CrawfordLian Pang 1:32
62. 61 We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) CrawfordLian Pang 1:46
63. 62 Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell LowellGaby 1:54
64. 63 Palinode: Autumn by James Russell LowellGaby 1:53
65. 64 Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas MooreSonia 1:53
66. 65 Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by HomerSonia, Tomas Peter, Gaby 8:44
67. 66 Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by HomerTomas Peter 1:55
68. 67 To Lucasta by Richard LovelaceLian Pang 1:21
69. 68 To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf WhittierSonia 2:27
70. 69 I Love My Jean by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 1:12
71. 70 Jeanie Morrison by William MotherwellTomas Peter 4:39
72. 71 O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 1:23
73. 72 The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth MoirTomas Peter 2:18
74. 73 Absence by Frances Anne KembleLian Pang 2:17
75. 74 Robin Adair by Lady Caroline KeppelSonia 1:50
76. 75 Daisy by Francis ThompsonGaby 3:26
77. 76 Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)Sonia 1:49
78. 77 What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna BlamireTomas Peter 1:42
79. 78 Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareLian Pang 1:21
80. 79 Absence by AnonymousLian Pang 0:43
81. 80 Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)Sonia 1:19
82. 81 "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord TennysonLian Pang 1:44
83. 82 The Old Familiar Faces by Charles LambTomas Peter 1:54
84. 83 Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph BrenanGaby 3:18
85. 84 The Wife to Her Husband by AnonymousSonia 1:49
86. 85 My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins FosterLian Pang 2:44
87. 86 Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins FosterLian Pang 2:12
88. 87 The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William CowperSonia 0:40
89. 88 Man by Walter Savage LandorLian Pang 0:37
90. 89 The World by Francis, Lord BaconSonia 1:45
91. 90 Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry NeeleSonia 1:24
92. 91 The Vanity of the World by Francis QuarlesTomas Peter 2:34
93. 92 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William ShakespeareLian Pang 1:23
94. 93 The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by AeschylusSonia 2:51
95. 94 Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John MiltonLian Pang 1:28
96. 95 Lines by Chidiock TichborneGaby 1:50
97. 96 Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John FletcherLian Pang 1:21
98. 97 The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareTomas Peter 3:50
99. 98 The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George CrabbeSonia 1:59
100. 99 Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe ShelleyGaby 3:11
101. 100 Ode to a Nightingale by John KeatsTomas Peter 5:29
102. 101 Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise RitterSonia 1:16
103. 102 Byron's Latest Verses by Lord ByronSonia 2:15
104. 103 A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne ProcterLian Pang 1:41
105. 104 The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell HolmesSonia 1:30
106. 105 A Lament by Percy Bysshe ShelleyTomas Peter 0:57
107. 106 "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas HoodGaby 1:36
108. 107 Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will CarletonGaby 7:31
109. 108 Old by Ralph HoytTomas Peter 7:20
110. 109 The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell HolmesGaby 2:27
111. 110 The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich PushkinSonia 1:02
112. 111 The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de BérangerSonia 2:41
113. 112 The Beggar by Thomas MossTomas Peter 2:51
114. 113 A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles KingsleyGaby 5:08
115. 114 "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by AnonymousTomas Peter 2:24
116. 115 Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford EdwardsLian Pang 2:51
117. 116 The Song of the Shirt by Thomas HoodLian Pang 3:48
118. 117 The Pauper's Drive by Thomas NoelSonia 2:18
119. 118 Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker WillisTomas Peter 1:51
120. 119 Beautiful Snow by James W. WatsonSonia 3:30
121. 120 London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)Lian Pang 1:33
122. 121 The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas HoodGaby 4:39
123. 122 Guilty, or Not Guilty? by AnonymousTomas Peter 3:09
124. 123 The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth LandonGaby 4:39
125. 124 Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonia 1:15