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

Episodes

• An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott

  Episode 0 · 30:31
• The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 1 · 1:30
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 2 · 3:26
• Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore

  Episode 3 · 2:19
• Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)

  Episode 4 · 1:34
• The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  Episode 5 · 1:14
• Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 6 · 1:27
• Fair Ines by Thomas Hood

  Episode 7 · 2:34
• The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns

  Episode 8 · 1:46
• Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney

  Episode 9 · 1:23
• Agatha by Alfred Austin

  Episode 10 · 2:01
• The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson

  Episode 11 · 3:48
• Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 12 · 16:28
• Song by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 13 · 1:12
• Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard

  Episode 14 · 3:27
• To a Portrait by Arthur Symons

  Episode 15 · 1:05
• Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 16 · 6:35
• The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine

  Episode 17 · 1:22
• Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle

  Episode 18 · 6:08
• Waly, Waly by Anonymous

  Episode 19 · 3:27
• Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous

  Episode 20 · 3:18
• My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell

  Episode 21 · 3:34
• Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman

  Episode 22 · 54s
• A Woman's Love by John Hay

  Episode 23 · 2:30
• The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers

  Episode 24 · 55s
• Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Episode 25 · 2:05
• The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham

  Episode 26 · 4:19
• Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell

  Episode 27 · 8:10
• Divided by Jean Ingelow

  Episode 28 · 8:18
• To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot

  Episode 29 · 1:16
• The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)

  Episode 30 · 1:22
• Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher

  Episode 31 · 1:38
• Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton

  Episode 32 · 1:52
• Time's Revenge by Agathias

  Episode 33 · 58s
• The Dream by Lord Byron

  Episode 34 · 12:44
• Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore

  Episode 35 · 2:43
• Blighted Love by Luís de Camões

  Episode 36 · 1:14
• The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Episode 37 · 1:13
• The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)

  Episode 38 · 5:26
• Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

  Episode 39 · 4:54
• Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge

  Episode 40 · 7:22
• The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford

  Episode 41 · 2:01
• Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux

  Episode 42 · 1:15
• Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler

  Episode 43 · 48s
• Parting by Coventry Patmore

  Episode 44 · 1:15
• To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace

  Episode 45 · 57s
• Good-bye by Anonymous

  Episode 46 · 2:13
• Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns

  Episode 47 · 2:11
• O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

  Episode 48 · 1:34
• Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron

  Episode 49 · 2:04
• 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 Scott

  Episode 50 · 2:01
• Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay

  Episode 51 · 3:24
• The Parting Lovers by Anonymous

  Episode 52 · 1:01
• Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay

  Episode 53 · 2:11
• As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore

  Episode 54 · 2:13
• Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough

  Episode 55 · 1:52
• Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron

  Episode 56 · 1:21
• Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron

  Episode 57 · 2:58
• Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton

  Episode 58 · 1:18
• Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare

  Episode 59 · 1:36
• Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford

  Episode 60 · 1:32
• We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford

  Episode 61 · 1:46
• Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 62 · 1:54
• Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 63 · 1:53
• Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore

  Episode 64 · 1:53
• Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer

  Episode 65 · 8:44
• Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer

  Episode 66 · 1:55
• To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace

  Episode 67 · 1:21
• To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 68 · 2:27
• I Love My Jean by Robert Burns

  Episode 69 · 1:12
• Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell

  Episode 70 · 4:39
• O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns

  Episode 71 · 1:23
• The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir

  Episode 72 · 2:18
• Absence by Frances Anne Kemble

  Episode 73 · 2:17
• Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel

  Episode 74 · 1:50
• Daisy by Francis Thompson

  Episode 75 · 3:26
• Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)

  Episode 76 · 1:49
• What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire

  Episode 77 · 1:42
• Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 78 · 1:21
• Absence by Anonymous

  Episode 79 · 43s
• Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)

  Episode 80 · 1:19
• "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 81 · 1:44
• The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb

  Episode 82 · 1:54
• Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan

  Episode 83 · 3:18
• The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous

  Episode 84 · 1:49
• My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster

  Episode 85 · 2:44
• Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster

  Episode 86 · 2:12
• The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper

  Episode 87 · 40s
• Man by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 88 · 37s
• The World by Francis, Lord Bacon

  Episode 89 · 1:45
• Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele

  Episode 90 · 1:24
• The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles

  Episode 91 · 2:34
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 92 · 1:23
• The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus

  Episode 93 · 2:51
• Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton

  Episode 94 · 1:28
• Lines by Chidiock Tichborne

  Episode 95 · 1:50
• Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher

  Episode 96 · 1:21
• The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 97 · 3:50
• The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe

  Episode 98 · 1:59
• Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Episode 99 · 3:11
• Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

  Episode 100 · 5:29
• Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter

  Episode 101 · 1:16
• Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron

  Episode 102 · 2:15
• A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter

  Episode 103 · 1:41
• The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 104 · 1:30
• A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Episode 105 · 57s
• "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood

  Episode 106 · 1:36
• Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton

  Episode 107 · 7:31
• Old by Ralph Hoyt

  Episode 108 · 7:20
• The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 109 · 2:27
• The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

  Episode 110 · 1:02
• The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger

  Episode 111 · 2:41
• The Beggar by Thomas Moss

  Episode 112 · 2:51
• A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley

  Episode 113 · 5:08
• "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous

  Episode 114 · 2:24
• Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards

  Episode 115 · 2:51
• The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood

  Episode 116 · 3:48
• The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel

  Episode 117 · 2:18
• Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Episode 118 · 1:51
• Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson

  Episode 119 · 3:30
• London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)

  Episode 120 · 1:33
• The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood

  Episode 121 · 4:39
• Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous

  Episode 122 · 3:09
• The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Episode 123 · 4:39
• Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 124 · 1:15