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

Chapters

1. 1 To Myself by Paul FlemingLian Pang 1:07
2. 2 The Flower by George HerbertGaby 3:17
3. 3 Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John MiltonSonia 1:13
4. 4 Invictus by William Ernest HenleySonia 1:07
5. 5 Afar in the Desert by Thomas PringleTomas Peter 5:54
6. 6 Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de VereSonia 1:17
7. 7 My Wife and Child by Henry R. JacksonTomas Peter 2:37
8. 8 The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGaby 1:33
9. 9 Times Go by Turns by Robert SouthwellLian Pang 1:47
10. 10 Compensation by Christopher Pearse CranchGaby 3:08
11. 11 The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles HobartSonia 4:48
12. 12 Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames HudsonTomas Peter 2:00
13. 13 Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh CloughLian Pang 1:15
14. 14 God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of BrunswickLian Pang 1:42
15. 15 Sonnet by Louise LabéLian Pang 1:06
16. 16 Waiting by John BurroughsSonia 1:25
17. 17 Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing GannettTomas Peter 3:19
18. 18 Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James BallantineTomas Peter 1:42
19. 19 Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von BodenstedtGaby 1:03
20. 20 I Hold Still by Julius SturmGaby 2:29
21. 21 The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSonia 1:15
22. 22 When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones BurdetteGaby 3:04
23. 23 Never Despair by William Smith O'BrienSonia 1:30
24. 24 The Saddest Fate by AnonymousSonia 1:31
25. 25 The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames BloodTomas Peter 3:35
26. 26 Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)Gaby 1:46
27. 27 Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareGaby 3:00
28. 28 Sic Vita by Henry KingSonia 1:02
29. 29 Death the Leveller by James ShirleyLian Pang 1:30
30. 30 Virtue Immortal by George HerbertGaby 1:48
31. 31 Man's Mortality by Simon WastellLian Pang 1:32
32. 32 Mortality by William KnoxSonia 3:34
33. 33 The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea HemansGaby 3:31
34. 34 The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan PiattLian Pang 0:38
35. 35 A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord ByronGaby 3:00
36. 36 The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes DodgeTomas Peter 2:20
37. 37 Thanatopsis by William Cullen BryantLian Pang 4:55
38. 38 A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland SillGaby 1:52
39. 39 Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikLian Pang 1:23
40. 40 The Grave of Sophocles by SimmiasLian Pang 0:50
41. 41 Inscription on Melrose Abbey by AnonymousGaby 1:00
42. 42 On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis BeaumontTomas Peter 1:16
43. 43 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayTomas Peter 8:10
44. 44 God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLian Pang 1:33
45. 45 Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery ChanningTomas Peter 1:44
46. 46 The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir MitchellSonia 1:22
47. 47 Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond KennedyLian Pang 1:03
48. 48 The Dead by Mathilde BlindGaby 1:39
49. 49 On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry MyersGaby 1:10
50. 50 The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart BlackieTomas Peter 2:12
51. 51 The Old Sexton by Park BenjaminLian Pang 2:09
52. 52 The First Snow-fall by James Russell LowellSonia 2:03
53. 53 The Morning-Glory by Maria White LowellGaby 3:43
54. 54 The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-LampsonSonia 1:04
55. 55 Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. SangsterGaby 3:54
56. 56 Jim's Kids by Eugene FieldTomas Peter 2:44
57. 57 The May Queen by Alfred, Lord TennysonGaby 14:38
58. 58 On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGeraldLian Pang 2:11
59. 59 Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady LindsaySonia 1:18
60. 60 Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de ChateaubriandTomas Peter 1:26
61. 61 The Death-bed by Thomas HoodSonia 1:02
62. 62 A Death-bed by James AldrichLian Pang 0:45
63. 63 Requiescat by Matthew ArnoldTomas Peter 1:10
64. 64 'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)Sonia 2:11
65. 65 Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter ScottGaby 1:57
66. 66 Evelyn Hope by Robert BrowningTomas Peter 3:21
67. 67 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeTomas Peter 2:13
68. 68 Thy Braes Were Bonny by John LoganLian Pang 2:18
69. 69 Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas MooreSonia 2:50
70. 70 Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)Lian Pang 1:16
71. 71 She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne SilleryGaby 1:29
72. 72 The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSonia, Lian Pang, Tomas Peter, Gaby 4:58
73. 73 Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonia 6:08
74. 74 Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareTomas Peter 1:29
75. 75 Highland Mary by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 1:49
76. 76 Fair Helen by AnonymousTomas Peter 2:09
77. 77 Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord TennysonTomas Peter 4:15
78. 78 Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikLian Pang 1:36
79. 79 After Summer by Philip Bourke MarstonGaby 2:15
80. 80 Lament for Heliodore by MeleagerTomas Peter 1:22
81. 81 On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of NavarreSonia 1:25
82. 82 To Mary in Heaven by Robert BurnsTomas Peter 2:09
83. 83 Minstrel's Song by Thomas ChattertonLian Pang 2:40
84. 84 The Passage by Ludwig UhlandSonia 1:32
85. 85 Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady DufferinTomas Peter 2:35
86. 86 Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord TennysonSonia 1:10
87. 87 The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. NortonTomas Peter 2:34
88. 88 Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareTomas Peter, Gaby 1:48
89. 89 Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord TennysonSonia, Lian Pang, Tomas Peter, Gaby 8:34
90. 90 Après by Arthur Joseph MunbyTomas Peter 1:41
91. 91 The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of OrléansTomas Peter 2:07
92. 92 Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord TennysonSonia 1:06
93. 93 Lavender by AnonymousGaby 3:26
94. 94 What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le GallienneSonia 1:31
95. 95 Van Elsen by Frederick George ScottGaby 1:50
96. 96 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt WhitmanTomas Peter 16:14
97. 97 If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. SmithSonia 2:03
98. 98 Awakening by Washington GladdenLian Pang 3:14
99. 99 Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius BonarLian Pang 2:10
100. 100 The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness NairneTomas Peter 1:13
101. 101 Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines LytleTomas Peter 2:37
102. 102 Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt JacksonSonia 2:47
103. 103 Farewell, Life by Thomas HoodGaby 1:41
104. 104 For Annie by Edgar Allan PoeTomas Peter 3:24
105. 105 Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee BrownSonia 1:15
106. 106 The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLian Pang 2:31
107. 107 Prospice by Robert BrowningGaby 2:20
108. 108 I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus MuhlenbergLian Pang 3:18
109. 109 Farewell by Walter Savage LandorLian Pang 0:37
110. 110 Love and Death by Margaretta Wade DelandSonia 1:08
111. 111 To Death by GluckGaby 2:16
112. 112 Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. BennettLian Pang 2:23
113. 113 Rest by Mary Woolsey HowlandGaby 1:39
114. 114 In Harbor by Paul Hamilton HayneTomas Peter 2:08
115. 115 Hush! by Julia C.R. DorrSonia 1:15
116. 116 Life by Anna Laetitia BarbauldLian Pang 1:54
117. 117 The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf WhittierLian Pang 1:38
118. 118 They Are All Gone by Henry VaughanLian Pang 2:23
119. 119 The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith BarrSonia 2:08
120. 120 Over the River by Nancy Woodbury PriestGaby 3:55
121. 121 Grief for the Dead by AnonymousLian Pang 1:42
122. 122 The Two Waitings by John White ChadwickGaby 2:55
123. 123 For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson PalmerTomas Peter 4:22
124. 124 Watching for Papa by AnonymousTomas Peter 1:27
125. 125 My Child by John PierpontGaby 4:22
126. 126 Song by Richard Le GallienneGaby 1:03
127. 127 The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLian Pang 1:30
128. 128 'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher StoweLian Pang 2:01
129. 129 Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen BryantLian Pang 1:27
130. 130 De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTomas Peter 5:27
131. 131 Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington RaymondSonia 1:33
132. 132 Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher StoweSonia 2:57
133. 133 Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James BaileyLian Pang 1:05
134. 134 In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis StevensonTomas Peter 1:39
135. 135 Tears by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGaby 1:48
136. 136 Resignation by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLian Pang 2:39
137. 137 Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington RaymondSonia 1:44
138. 138 Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLian Pang 1:10
139. 139 The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin ArnoldSonia 4:18
140. 140 Peace by AnonymousLian Pang 1:05
141. 141 Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGaby 3:08
142. 142 Happy Are the Dead by Henry VaughanSonia 2:45
143. 143 The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. PrestonSonia 0:56
144. 144 The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen BryantGaby 5:38
145. 145 Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald HeberLian Pang 1:28
146. 146 Lycidas by John MiltonTomas Peter 11:12
147. 147 After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin ArnoldTomas Peter 4:04
148. 148 It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington BethuneGaby 1:39
149. 149 There Is No Death by James L. M'CreeryGaby 4:19
150. 150 Going and Coming by Edward A. JenksSonia 1:47
151. 151 Blind by Israel ZangwillGaby 1:59
152. 152 The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William ShakespeareSonia 1:29