World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)

Episodes

• The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 1 · 1:14
• The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 2 · 1:34
• The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor

  Episode 3 · 1:42
• The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley

  Episode 4 · 2:34
• The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey

  Episode 5 · 2:26
• A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 6 · 7:15
• The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor

  Episode 7 · 2:42
• The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 8 · 2:39
• The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms

  Episode 9 · 1:46
• The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 10 · 4:27
• Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill

  Episode 11 · 4:25
• The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts

  Episode 12 · 3:15
• Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 13 · 3:51
• The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt

  Episode 14 · 1:26
• Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith

  Episode 15 · 3:43
• The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 16 · 1:25
• The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White

  Episode 17 · 1:22
• To Daffodils by Robert Herrick

  Episode 18 · 1:07
• Daffodils by William Wordsworth

  Episode 19 · 1:42
• To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 20 · 3:24
• Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke

  Episode 21 · 1:48
• The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Episode 22 · 1:32
• The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Episode 23 · 1:19
• Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold

  Episode 24 · 1:51
• To Violets by Robert Herrick

  Episode 25 · 50s
• A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson

  Episode 26 · 1:46
• The Wreath by Meleager

  Episode 27 · 55s
• The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 28 · 3:36
• Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier

  Episode 29 · 8:54
• The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens

  Episode 30 · 1:46
• The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan

  Episode 31 · 3:34
• The Maize by William W. Fosdick

  Episode 32 · 4:24
• The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 33 · 3:06
• The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Episode 34 · 3:15
• Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck

  Episode 35 · 1:58
• The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer

  Episode 36 · 3:24
• To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns

  Episode 37 · 2:56
• To Blossoms by Robert Herrick

  Episode 38 · 1:05
• The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith

  Episode 39 · 1:15
• The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb

  Episode 40 · 54s
• Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith

  Episode 41 · 1:28
• The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher

  Episode 42 · 1:32
• Flowers by Thomas Hood

  Episode 43 · 1:41
• 'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore

  Episode 44 · 2:33
• To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 45 · 1:27
• The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges

  Episode 46 · 1:01
• Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman

  Episode 47 · 1:57
• The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley

  Episode 48 · 1:25
• Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery

  Episode 49 · 3:19
• To the Cuckoo by John Logan

  Episode 50 · 1:39
• To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth

  Episode 51 · 1:54
• Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

  Episode 52 · 57s
• The Lark Ascending by George Meredith

  Episode 53 · 6:11
• To the Skylark by William Wordsworth

  Episode 54 · 1:23
• To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Episode 55 · 4:59
• The Skylark by James Hogg

  Episode 56 · 2:25
• The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana

  Episode 57 · 1:49
• The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter

  Episode 58 · 2:00
• To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 59 · 2:06
• To the Nightingale by John Milton

  Episode 60 · 1:22
• The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw

  Episode 61 · 4:05
• Philomena by Matthew Arnold

  Episode 62 · 2:22
• Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper

  Episode 63 · 1:14
• Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 64 · 3:28
• The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg

  Episode 65 · 2:16
• To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs

  Episode 66 · 3:04
• The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Episode 67 · 3:46
• The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton

  Episode 68 · 1:32
• The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 69 · 1:36
• The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 70 · 49s
• The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 71 · 2:36
• The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 72 · 2:52
• The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie

  Episode 73 · 1:38
• The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Episode 74 · 3:22
• The English Robin by Harrison Weir

  Episode 75 · 1:09
• Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges

  Episode 76 · 1:53
• The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton

  Episode 77 · 1:12
• The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague

  Episode 78 · 1:58
• The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt

  Episode 79 · 1:00
• The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts

  Episode 80 · 1:18
• Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous

  Episode 81 · 1:23
• Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts

  Episode 82 · 8:42
• The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats

  Episode 83 · 1:13
• To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt

  Episode 84 · 1:24
• A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte

  Episode 85 · 1:55
• To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 86 · 1:23
• The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys

  Episode 87 · 1:03
• To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Episode 88 · 3:24
• Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson

  Episode 89 · 1:52
• A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman

  Episode 90 · 4:07
• To a Louse by Robert Burns

  Episode 91 · 2:28
• To a Mouse by Robert Burns

  Episode 92 · 2:33
• The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb

  Episode 93 · 1:17
• Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous

  Episode 94 · 2:39
• The Tiger by William Blake

  Episode 95 · 1:58
• The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath

  Episode 96 · 4:10
• Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania

  Episode 97 · 1:48
• The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci

  Episode 98 · 1:28
• Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

  Episode 99 · 1:57
• Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer

  Episode 100 · 3:22
• To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney

  Episode 101 · 2:13
• Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 102 · 3:26
• The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

  Episode 103 · 4:38
• The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 104 · 2:11
• The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anonymous

  Episode 105 · 1:35
• Chiquita by Bret Harte

  Episode 106 · 3:26
• The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Episode 107 · 1:52
• The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron

  Episode 108 · 4:53
• The Sea by Bernard Barton

  Episode 109 · 1:23
• The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Episode 110 · 2:36
• Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok

  Episode 111 · 1:28
• The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 112 · 2:20
• Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 113 · 2:38
• The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman

  Episode 114 · 2:59
• The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans

  Episode 115 · 2:47
• Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous

  Episode 116 · 2:36
• A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Episode 117 · 5:16
• Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner

  Episode 118 · 1:37
• Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 119 · 2:35
• The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

  Episode 120 · 2:48
• The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery

  Episode 121 · 3:12
• The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 122 · 2:26
• A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham

  Episode 123 · 1:25
• Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell

  Episode 124 · 2:29
• My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper

  Episode 125 · 1:20
• The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin

  Episode 126 · 1:49
• The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe

  Episode 127 · 1:12
• All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin

  Episode 128 · 1:27
• The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry

  Episode 129 · 2:40
• Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin

  Episode 130 · 1:36
• Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 131 · 2:07
• The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

  Episode 132 · 1:26
• Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing

  Episode 133 · 55s
• A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent

  Episode 134 · 1:35
• To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Episode 135 · 1:23
• Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby

  Episode 136 · 1:42
• Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell

  Episode 137 · 4:03
• The Storm by George Alexander Stevens

  Episode 138 · 3:22
• The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron

  Episode 139 · 1:35
• The Shipwreck by William Falconer

  Episode 140 · 3:16
• The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Episode 141 · 4:22
• The Polar Quest by Richard Burton

  Episode 142 · 1:14
• The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts

  Episode 143 · 57s
• The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche

  Episode 144 · 1:59
• The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner

  Episode 145 · 1:14
• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

  Episode 146 · 2:37
• With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb

  Episode 147 · 1:57
• The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth

  Episode 148 · 1:24
• The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor

  Episode 149 · 1:21
• Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 150 · 4:56
• Among the Rocks by Robert Browning

  Episode 151 · 1:12
• The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey

  Episode 152 · 4:20
• How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell

  Episode 153 · 2:08
• The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt

  Episode 154 · 1:52
• Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin

  Episode 155 · 3:09
• The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond

  Episode 156 · 4:20
• The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Episode 157 · 2:14