The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1) - Free Audiobook

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1. The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts
2. The World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William Wordsworth
3. Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling
5. God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning
6. My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
7. Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. The Country Faith by Norman Gale
9. Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
10. Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder
11. Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles
12. Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
13. Nature by Jones Very
14. Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth
15. An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats
16. The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
17. Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott
18. The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey
19. Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton
20. Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton
21. Light by George MacDonald
22. The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor
23. From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley
24. Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25. Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder
26. Morning Song by Joanna Baillie
27. Morning by John Cunningham
28. Pack Clouds Away by Thomas Heywood
29. Morning: From 'The Minstrel' by James Beattie
30. Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge
31. The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
32. A Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur
33. Noontide by John Leyden
34. A Summer Noon by William Howitt
35. The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert Tannahill
36. Sunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
37. Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
38. Day Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)
39. The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott
40. Evening by Archibald Lampman
41. A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale
42. To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
43. The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant
44. Evening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton
45. Evening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron
46. Moonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
47. To Delia by Samuel Daniel
48. The Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by Homer
49. To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley
50. Night by Joseph Blanco White
51. Night: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord Byron
52. Night: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
53. Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
54. In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. Roberts
55. A Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James Thomson
56. March by William Morris
57. When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne
58. March by William Wordsworth
59. Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe
60. Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard
61. Spring by Thomas Gray
62. Summer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthy
63. Sweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas Carew
64. Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning
65. May Morning by Celia Thaxter
66. Song (On May Morning) by John Milton
67. Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod
68. Spring by Ebenezer Elliott
69. Die Down, O Dismal Day by David Gray
70. Morning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer
71. Cuckoo Song by Anonymous
72. Spring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
73. Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman
74. The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes
75. The Plough by Richard Hengist Horne
76. They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell
77. Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley
78. A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell
79. June by William Cullen Bryant
80. The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume
81. Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley
82. Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley
83. Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett
84. Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
85. Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
86. Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner
87. Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell
88. After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
89. A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne
90. Rain by Ebenezer Jones
91. The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies
92. Wicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-Armstrong
93. Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
94. The Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes
95. The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley
96. Summer Moods by John Clare
97. In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton
98. The Angler's Wish by Izaak Walton
99. The Angler by John Chalkhill
100. Swimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord Byron
101. The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana
102. The Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. Roberts
103. September by George Arnold
104. The Latter Rain by Jones Very
105. To Autumn by John Keats
106. Harvest Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty
107. Life in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton Cooke
108. Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott
109. The Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
110. The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William Browne
111. A Hunting We Will Go by Henry Fielding
112. The Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott
113. The Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James Thomson
114. The Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
115. Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb
116. No! by Thomas Hood
117. When the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley
118. Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley
119. When Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
120. Winter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias Claudius
121. Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas
122. Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
123. December by Joel Benton
124. Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge
125. The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson
126. The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald
127. The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant
128. 'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
129. A Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage Eastman
130. Winter by John Howard Bryant
131. Winter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James Thomson
132. Winter Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty
133. Winter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William Cowper
134. Sleigh Song by G.W. Pettee
135. Our Skater Belle by Anonymous
136. O Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David Gray
137. A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
138. The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant
139. Song of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
140. The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms
141. A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
142. The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill
143. Song of the River by Charles Kingsley
144. Afton Water by Robert Burns
145. The Snows by Charles Sangster
146. My River by Eduard Mörike
147. On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles
148. Oxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold
149. The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
150. To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival
151. The Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
152. The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
153. Calm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
154. The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster
155. Storm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
156. Dover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William Shakespeare
157. Choral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by Euripides
158. An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers
159. From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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