World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

Episodes

• The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley

  Episode 1 · 1:35
• Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow

  Episode 2 · 2:20
• A Farewell by Charles Kingsley

  Episode 3 · 57s
• Riding Down by Nora Perry

  Episode 4 · 2:13
• A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin

  Episode 5 · 1:20
• In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Episode 6 · 1:47
• Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper

  Episode 7 · 1:02
• To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Episode 8 · 2:46
• The School Girl by William Henry Venable

  Episode 9 · 2:22
• Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 10 · 2:52
• To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth

  Episode 11 · 4:22
• Ruth by Thomas Hood

  Episode 12 · 1:13
• The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson

  Episode 13 · 3:38
• Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English

  Episode 14 · 2:29
• Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley

  Episode 15 · 1:13
• Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse

  Episode 16 · 4:43
• My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris

  Episode 17 · 1:48
• To the Virgins by Robert Herrick

  Episode 18 · 1:12
• Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous

  Episode 19 · 1:11
• The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley

  Episode 20 · 1:10
• Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous

  Episode 21 · 3:39
• To Thaliarchus by Horace

  Episode 22 · 1:41
• A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck

  Episode 23 · 1:18
• Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck

  Episode 24 · 1:26
• Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

  Episode 25 · 1:41
• Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 26 · 6:08
• The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore

  Episode 27 · 2:39
• On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray

  Episode 28 · 5:06
• Spring Song by Bliss Carman

  Episode 29 · 4:41
• Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

  Episode 30 · 2:43
• The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman

  Episode 31 · 4:00
• Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Episode 32 · 1:27
• The Heritage by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 33 · 3:30
• To Youth by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 34 · 1:18
• My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 35 · 4:56
• Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Episode 36 · 1:23
• The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard

  Episode 37 · 1:05
• Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope

  Episode 38 · 1:26
• Home by Leonidas

  Episode 39 · 56s
• The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 40 · 2:01
• The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney

  Episode 41 · 1:00
• Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton

  Episode 42 · 6:04
• The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans

  Episode 43 · 1:53
• The Auld House by Lady Nairne

  Episode 44 · 4:21
• The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Episode 45 · 2:06
• If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith

  Episode 46 · 2:36
• The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 47 · 1:59
• The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing

  Episode 48 · 1:54
• Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith

  Episode 49 · 2:37
• The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats

  Episode 50 · 1:21
• Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers

  Episode 51 · 2:56
• The Children by Charles M. Dickinson

  Episode 52 · 3:30
• Not One to Spare by Anonymous

  Episode 53 · 4:03
• Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow

  Episode 54 · 1:58
• I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore

  Episode 55 · 1:30
• The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee

  Episode 56 · 1:19
• By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom

  Episode 57 · 3:09
• My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton

  Episode 58 · 2:24
• A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 59 · 3:33
• The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner

  Episode 60 · 1:45
• The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns

  Episode 61 · 11:50
• A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 62 · 6:15
• Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor

  Episode 63 · 1:07
• The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Episode 64 · 1:23
• Homeward Bound by Catullus

  Episode 65 · 1:23
• The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman

  Episode 66 · 1:16
• The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

  Episode 67 · 3:11
• A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman

  Episode 68 · 1:48
• In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland

  Episode 69 · 1:45
• Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas)

  Episode 70 · 1:20
• A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 71 · 2:02
• The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard

  Episode 72 · 2:39
• The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

  Episode 73 · 3:03
• When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell

  Episode 74 · 3:50
• Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott

  Episode 75 · 1:42
• Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Episode 76 · 2:04
• The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 77 · 2:33
• Christmas by George Wither

  Episode 78 · 4:33
• The Auld Folks by Andrew Park

  Episode 79 · 1:29
• A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 80 · 1:06
• Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne

  Episode 81 · 2:10
• Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Episode 82 · 1:06
• Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young

  Episode 83 · 3:27
• Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 84 · 3:37
• Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Episode 85 · 1:16
• Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 86 · 1:22
• Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 87 · 1:41
• The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster

  Episode 88 · 1:09
• A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke

  Episode 89 · 1:15
• Parted Friends by James Montgomery

  Episode 90 · 1:19
• When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare

  Episode 91 · 1:19
• Jaffar by Leigh Hunt

  Episode 92 · 2:45
• The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore

  Episode 93 · 1:30
• We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

  Episode 94 · 1:19
• Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer

  Episode 95 · 1:03
• We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll

  Episode 96 · 2:19
• Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer

  Episode 97 · 2:45
• Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 98 · 2:19
• When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare

  Episode 99 · 1:21
• Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

  Episode 100 · 48s
• Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare

  Episode 101 · 1:27
• The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 102 · 4:31
• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns

  Episode 103 · 4:51
• And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore

  Episode 104 · 2:54
• We Love but Few by Anonymous

  Episode 105 · 1:41
• The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 106 · 2:31
• A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore

  Episode 107 · 1:34
• Platonic by William B. Terrett

  Episode 108 · 3:26
• Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges)

  Episode 109 · 46s
• The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 110 · 3:20
• The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 111 · 4:05
• The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar

  Episode 112 · 2:32
• Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 113 · 7:32
• Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Episode 114 · 1:21
• Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore

  Episode 115 · 2:06
• A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger

  Episode 116 · 2:52
• The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 117 · 1:54
• The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray

  Episode 118 · 4:50
• The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus

  Episode 119 · 1:08
• Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington

  Episode 120 · 57s
• To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper

  Episode 121 · 4:27
• Advice by William Dunbar

  Episode 122 · 1:38
• The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald

  Episode 123 · 2:18
• Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain

  Episode 124 · 1:54
• Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

  Episode 125 · 3:59