The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2), 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 2) by Various. Read in English by Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Sonia; Craig Franklin The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 125
• Listed recording duration: 5:09:58

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• domesticity
• youth
• Friendship
• home
• world's best poetry
• companionship

Opening tracks: first 24 of 125

1. 001 - The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley — 1:35
2. 002 - Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow — 2:20
3. 003 - A Farewell by Charles Kingsley — 0:57
4. 004 - Riding Down by Nora Perry — 2:13
5. 005 - A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin — 1:20
6. 006 - In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson — 1:47
7. 007 - Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper — 1:02
8. 008 - To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson — 2:46
9. 009 - The School Girl by William Henry Venable — 2:22
10. 010 - Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 2:52
11. 011 - To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth — 4:22
12. 012 - Ruth by Thomas Hood — 1:13
13. 013 - The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson — 3:38
14. 014 - Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English — 2:29
15. 015 - Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley — 1:13
16. 016 - Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse — 4:43
17. 017 - My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris — 1:48
18. 018 - To the Virgins by Robert Herrick — 1:12
19. 019 - Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous — 1:11
20. 020 - The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley — 1:10
21. 021 - Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous — 3:39
22. 022 - To Thaliarchus by Horace — 1:41
23. 023 - A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck — 1:18
24. 024 - Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck — 1:26

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