The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1), credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1). Read in English by Anusha Iyer; Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; and Craig Franklin. The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for children, and fun for little folk. It also includes a general introduction to the series by Carman himself, as well as an introductory essay to the volume by University of Chicago English professor William Darnall MacClintock (1858-1936). (Summary by Tomas Peter)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 138
• Listed recording duration: 6:28:30

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• children
• family
• limericks
• home
• babies
• world's best poetry

Opening tracks: first 24 of 138

1. 000 - The Purpose of Poetry by Bliss Carman — 39:50
2. 001 - Young People and the Poets by William Darnall MacClintock — 35:40
3. 002 - The Baby by Kalidasa — 0:50
4. 003 - Birth by Annie R. Stillman (Grace Raymond) — 1:24
5. 004 - The Baby by George MacDonald — 1:51
6. 005 - Weighing the Baby by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) — 2:14
7. 006 - Laus Infantium by William Canton — 1:35
8. 007 - Étude réaliste by Algernon Charles Swinburne — 2:05
9. 008 - The Babie by Jeremiah Eames Rankin — 1:26
10. 009 - The Angel's Whisper by Samuel Lover — 1:38
11. 010 - Lullaby: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 1:24
12. 011 - The Happy Hour by Mary Frances Butts — 1:28
13. 012 - Cradle Song by Anonymous — 1:15
14. 013 - Cradle Song: From 'Bitter-Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland — 2:51
15. 014 - Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field — 1:34
16. 015 - Philip, My King by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik — 2:26
17. 016 - Baby May by William Cox Bennett — 2:57
18. 017 - Little Feet by Elizabeth Akers — 2:47
19. 018 - Baby Louise by Margaret Eytinge — 1:31
20. 019 - Silent Baby by Ellen Bartlett Currier — 1:53
21. 020 - The Household Sovereign: From 'The Hanging of the Crane' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 1:56
22. 021 - On the Picture of an Infant (Playing Near a Precipice) by Leonidas of Alexandria — 1:06
23. 022 - The Mother's Sacrifice by Seba Smith — 1:43
24. 023 - Mother and Child by William Gilmore Simms — 2:07

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