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

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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 (6 hr 28 min)

Chapters

The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts

12:29

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The World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William Wordsworth

1:25

Read by Leanne Yau

Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3:34

Read by Leanne Yau

On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling

1:32

Read by Sonia

God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning

4:02

Read by Craig Franklin

My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth

0:57

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Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson

3:09

Read by Jason in Panama

The Country Faith by Norman Gale

1:01

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Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

9:43

Read by Craig Franklin

Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder

1:41

Read by Sonia

Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles

1:13

Read by Leanne Yau

Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray

2:52

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Nature by Jones Very

1:18

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Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth

4:11

Read by Craig Franklin

An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats

1:52

Read by Leanne Yau

The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

2:07

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Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott

2:45

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The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey

5:26

Read by Leanne Yau

Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton

3:55

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Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton

1:03

Read by Craig Franklin

Light by George MacDonald

3:58

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The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor

0:50

Read by Leanne Yau

From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley

3:41

Read by Craig Franklin

Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:37

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Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder

2:11

Read by Leanne Yau

Morning Song by Joanna Baillie

1:33

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Morning by John Cunningham

2:14

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Pack Clouds Away by Thomas Heywood

1:23

Read by Leanne Yau

Morning: From 'The Minstrel' by James Beattie

1:32

Read by Craig Franklin

Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge

1:26

Read by Sonia

The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

1:34

Read by Craig Franklin

A Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur

2:26

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Noontide by John Leyden

1:31

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A Summer Noon by William Howitt

1:52

Read by Leanne Yau

The Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert Tannahill

1:26

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Sunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

2:17

Read by Leanne Yau

Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:25

Read by Craig Franklin

Day Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Elio…

1:46

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The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott

1:35

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Evening by Archibald Lampman

1:20

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A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale

2:00

Read by Craig Franklin

To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell

1:16

Read by Leanne Yau

The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant

3:18

Read by Sonia

Evening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton

1:18

Read by Leanne Yau

Evening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

3:51

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Moonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:16

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To Delia by Samuel Daniel

1:16

Read by Craig Franklin

The Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by Homer

1:47

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To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley

2:13

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Night by Joseph Blanco White

1:25

Read by Sonia

Night: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord Byron

3:09

Read by Craig Franklin

Night: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

2:47

Read by Leanne Yau

Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:50

Read by Sonia

In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. Roberts

1:27

Read by Craig Franklin

A Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James Thomson

7:52

Read by Tomas Peter

March by William Morris

1:57

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When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne

3:57

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March by William Wordsworth

1:09

Read by Sonia

Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe

1:25

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Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard

1:43

Read by Craig Franklin

Spring by Thomas Gray

2:47

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Summer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthy

3:54

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Sweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas Carew

1:36

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Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning

1:35

Read by Leanne Yau

May Morning by Celia Thaxter

2:23

Read by Sonia

Song (On May Morning) by John Milton

1:04

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Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod

2:45

Read by Leanne Yau

Spring by Ebenezer Elliott

1:21

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Die Down, O Dismal Day by David Gray

1:21

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Morning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey C…

1:50

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Cuckoo Song by Anonymous

1:11

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Spring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:32

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Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman

2:15

Read by Leanne Yau

The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes

4:14

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The Plough by Richard Hengist Horne

1:22

Read by Craig Franklin

They Come! The Merry Summer Months by William Motherwell

3:43

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Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley

1:36

Read by Leanne Yau

A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell

2:24

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June by William Cullen Bryant

2:51

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The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume

6:15

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Knee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley

4:20

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Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley

2:15

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Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett

1:21

Read by Leanne Yau

Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4:10

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Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:04

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Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner

3:27

Read by Leanne Yau

Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell

5:41

Read by Tomas Peter

After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:01

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A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne

2:15

Read by Craig Franklin

Rain by Ebenezer Jones

1:44

Read by Leanne Yau

The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies

2:27

Read by Sonia

Wicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-Armstrong

1:47

Read by Craig Franklin

Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

5:24

Read by Tomas Peter

The Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by Aristophanes

2:55

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The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley

4:36

Read by Leanne Yau

Summer Moods by John Clare

1:21

Read by Sonia

In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton

3:32

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The Angler's Wish by Izaak Walton

1:47

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The Angler by John Chalkhill

2:02

Read by Craig Franklin

Swimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord Byron

1:28

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The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana

3:18

Read by Jason in Panama

The Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. Roberts

2:50

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September by George Arnold

2:20

Read by Craig Franklin

The Latter Rain by Jones Very

1:15

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To Autumn by John Keats

2:34

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Harvest Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty

1:26

Read by Sonia

Life in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton Cooke

4:50

Read by Leanne Yau

Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott

1:46

Read by Craig Franklin

The Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

2:41

Read by Tomas Peter

The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William Br…

1:38

Read by Sonia

A Hunting We Will Go by Henry Fielding

2:00

Read by Leanne Yau

The Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott

7:27

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The Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James Thomson

2:29

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The Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

3:40

Read by Craig Franklin

Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb

0:47

Read by Jason in Panama

No! by Thomas Hood

1:22

Read by Leanne Yau

When the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley

2:20

Read by Tomas Peter

Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:48

Read by Tomas Peter

When Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by Wil…

1:25

Read by Jason in Panama

Winter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias Claudius

1:59

Read by Jason in Panama

Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas

1:19

Read by Jason in Panama

Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:23

Read by Sonia

December by Joel Benton

1:27

Read by Craig Franklin

Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge

1:07

Read by Sonia

The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

2:14

Read by Tomas Peter

The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald

1:18

Read by Craig Franklin

The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant

3:23

Read by Leanne Yau

'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

1:24

Read by Leanne Yau

A Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage Eastman

4:48

Read by Sonia

Winter by John Howard Bryant

1:36

Read by Craig Franklin

Winter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James Thomson

2:58

Read by Leanne Yau

Winter Song by Ludwig H.C. Hölty

1:33

Read by Tomas Peter

Winter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William C…

4:10

Read by Jason in Panama

Sleigh Song by G.W. Pettee

1:35

Read by Sonia

Our Skater Belle by Anonymous

1:42

Read by Craig Franklin

O Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David Gray

1:19

Read by Jason in Panama

A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald

1:57

Read by Sonia

The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant

2:29

Read by Sonia

Song of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:44

Read by Sonia

The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms

3:41

Read by Leanne Yau

A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:12

Read by Sonia

The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill

3:02

Read by Craig Franklin

Song of the River by Charles Kingsley

1:57

Read by Jason in Panama

Afton Water by Robert Burns

4:14

Read by Tomas Peter

The Snows by Charles Sangster

2:02

Read by Tomas Peter

My River by Eduard Mörike

3:27

Read by Leanne Yau

On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles

1:18

Read by Sonia

Oxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold

1:32

Read by Craig Franklin

The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

1:38

Read by Jason in Panama

To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival

1:53

Read by Tomas Peter

The Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:42

Read by Sonia

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats

1:39

Read by Tomas Peter

Calm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron

2:06

Read by Jason in Panama

The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster

1:23

Read by Sonia

Storm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron

1:43

Read by Craig Franklin

Dover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William Shakespeare

1:21

Read by Jason in Panama

Choral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by Euripides

2:38

Read by Sonia

An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers

1:21

Read by Craig Franklin

From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:43

Read by Sonia