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

Episodes

• To Myself by Paul Fleming

  Episode 1 · 1:07
• The Flower by George Herbert

  Episode 2 · 3:17
• Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton

  Episode 3 · 1:13
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley

  Episode 4 · 1:07
• Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle

  Episode 5 · 5:54
• Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Episode 6 · 1:17
• My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson

  Episode 7 · 2:37
• The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 8 · 1:33
• Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell

  Episode 9 · 1:47
• Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Episode 10 · 3:08
• The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart

  Episode 11 · 4:48
• Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson

  Episode 12 · 2:00
• Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough

  Episode 13 · 1:15
• God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick

  Episode 14 · 1:42
• Sonnet by Louise Labé

  Episode 15 · 1:06
• Waiting by John Burroughs

  Episode 16 · 1:25
• Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett

  Episode 17 · 3:19
• Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine

  Episode 18 · 1:42
• Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt

  Episode 19 · 1:03
• I Hold Still by Julius Sturm

  Episode 20 · 2:29
• The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Episode 21 · 1:15
• When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette

  Episode 22 · 3:04
• Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien

  Episode 23 · 1:30
• The Saddest Fate by Anonymous

  Episode 24 · 1:31
• The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood

  Episode 25 · 3:35
• Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 26 · 1:46
• Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 27 · 3:00
• Sic Vita by Henry King

  Episode 28 · 1:02
• Death the Leveller by James Shirley

  Episode 29 · 1:30
• Virtue Immortal by George Herbert

  Episode 30 · 1:48
• Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell

  Episode 31 · 1:32
• Mortality by William Knox

  Episode 32 · 3:34
• The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

  Episode 33 · 3:31
• The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

  Episode 34 · 38s
• A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron

  Episode 35 · 3:00
• The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge

  Episode 36 · 2:20
• Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 37 · 4:55
• A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill

  Episode 38 · 1:52
• Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

  Episode 39 · 1:23
• The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias

  Episode 40 · 50s
• Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous

  Episode 41 · 1:00
• On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

  Episode 42 · 1:16
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

  Episode 43 · 8:10
• God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 44 · 1:33
• Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing

  Episode 45 · 1:44
• The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell

  Episode 46 · 1:22
• Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy

  Episode 47 · 1:03
• The Dead by Mathilde Blind

  Episode 48 · 1:39
• On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers

  Episode 49 · 1:10
• The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie

  Episode 50 · 2:12
• The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin

  Episode 51 · 2:09
• The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 52 · 2:03
• The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell

  Episode 53 · 3:43
• The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Episode 54 · 1:04
• Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster

  Episode 55 · 3:54
• Jim's Kids by Eugene Field

  Episode 56 · 2:44
• The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 57 · 14:38
• On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald

  Episode 58 · 2:11
• Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay

  Episode 59 · 1:18
• Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand

  Episode 60 · 1:26
• The Death-bed by Thomas Hood

  Episode 61 · 1:02
• A Death-bed by James Aldrich

  Episode 62 · 45s
• Requiescat by Matthew Arnold

  Episode 63 · 1:10
• 'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)

  Episode 64 · 2:11
• Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 65 · 1:57
• Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning

  Episode 66 · 3:21
• Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

  Episode 67 · 2:13
• Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan

  Episode 68 · 2:18
• Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore

  Episode 69 · 2:50
• Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 70 · 1:16
• She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery

  Episode 71 · 1:29
• The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 72 · 4:58
• Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 73 · 6:08
• Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 74 · 1:29
• Highland Mary by Robert Burns

  Episode 75 · 1:49
• Fair Helen by Anonymous

  Episode 76 · 2:09
• Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 77 · 4:15
• Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

  Episode 78 · 1:36
• After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston

  Episode 79 · 2:15
• Lament for Heliodore by Meleager

  Episode 80 · 1:22
• On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

  Episode 81 · 1:25
• To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns

  Episode 82 · 2:09
• Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton

  Episode 83 · 2:40
• The Passage by Ludwig Uhland

  Episode 84 · 1:32
• Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin

  Episode 85 · 2:35
• Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 86 · 1:10
• The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton

  Episode 87 · 2:34
• Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 88 · 1:48
• Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 89 · 8:34
• Après by Arthur Joseph Munby

  Episode 90 · 1:41
• The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans

  Episode 91 · 2:07
• Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 92 · 1:06
• Lavender by Anonymous

  Episode 93 · 3:26
• What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne

  Episode 94 · 1:31
• Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott

  Episode 95 · 1:50
• When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman

  Episode 96 · 16:14
• If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith

  Episode 97 · 2:03
• Awakening by Washington Gladden

  Episode 98 · 3:14
• Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar

  Episode 99 · 2:10
• The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne

  Episode 100 · 1:13
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle

  Episode 101 · 2:37
• Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson

  Episode 102 · 2:47
• Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood

  Episode 103 · 1:41
• For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe

  Episode 104 · 3:24
• Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown

  Episode 105 · 1:15
• The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 106 · 2:31
• Prospice by Robert Browning

  Episode 107 · 2:20
• I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg

  Episode 108 · 3:18
• Farewell by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 109 · 37s
• Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland

  Episode 110 · 1:08
• To Death by Gluck

  Episode 111 · 2:16
• Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett

  Episode 112 · 2:23
• Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland

  Episode 113 · 1:39
• In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Episode 114 · 2:08
• Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr

  Episode 115 · 1:15
• Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

  Episode 116 · 1:54
• The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 117 · 1:38
• They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan

  Episode 118 · 2:23
• The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr

  Episode 119 · 2:08
• Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest

  Episode 120 · 3:55
• Grief for the Dead by Anonymous

  Episode 121 · 1:42
• The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick

  Episode 122 · 2:55
• For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer

  Episode 123 · 4:22
• Watching for Papa by Anonymous

  Episode 124 · 1:27
• My Child by John Pierpont

  Episode 125 · 4:22
• Song by Richard Le Gallienne

  Episode 126 · 1:03
• The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 127 · 1:30
• 'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Episode 128 · 2:01
• Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 129 · 1:27
• De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 130 · 5:27
• Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

  Episode 131 · 1:33
• Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Episode 132 · 2:57
• Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

  Episode 133 · 1:05
• In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Episode 134 · 1:39
• Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 135 · 1:48
• Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 136 · 2:39
• Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

  Episode 137 · 1:44
• Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 138 · 1:10
• The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold

  Episode 139 · 4:18
• Peace by Anonymous

  Episode 140 · 1:05
• Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 141 · 3:08
• Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan

  Episode 142 · 2:45
• The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston

  Episode 143 · 56s
• The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 144 · 5:38
• Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber

  Episode 145 · 1:28
• Lycidas by John Milton

  Episode 146 · 11:12
• After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold

  Episode 147 · 4:04
• It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune

  Episode 148 · 1:39
• There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery

  Episode 149 · 4:19
• Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks

  Episode 150 · 1:47
• Blind by Israel Zangwill

  Episode 151 · 1:59
• The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare

  Episode 152 · 1:29