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

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (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 2: Love (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Anusha Iyer; Sandra Schmit; Sonia; John Burlinson; Tomas Peter; Lian Pang; Gaby; and Craig Franklin. The second 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 famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as admiration; love's nature; love's beginnings; and wooing and winning. It also includes an introductory essay by American poet John Vance Cheney (1848-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 171
• Listed recording duration: 6:00:46

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• love
• world's best poetry
• admiration
• wooing
• love's nature
• love's beginnings

Opening tracks: first 24 of 171

1. 000 - The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney — 19:00
2. 001 - When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare — 1:14
3. 002 - Daybreak by Sir William Davenant — 1:04
4. 003 - Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare — 1:15
5. 004 - The Portrait by Thomas Heywood — 2:33
6. 005 - Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — 2:09
7. 006 - To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton — 1:28
8. 007 - The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare — 1:23
9. 008 - There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by Anonymous — 1:45
10. 009 - Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare — 0:44
11. 010 - Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare — 1:09
12. 011 - Song by Mark Akenside — 1:54
13. 012 - Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson — 2:25
14. 013 - Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope — 1:06
15. 014 - Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe — 2:58
16. 015 - Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson — 1:09
17. 016 - Eros Is Missing by Meleager — 1:15
18. 017 - A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain — 1:16
19. 018 - To Dianeme by Robert Herrick — 0:53
20. 019 - Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge — 3:13
21. 020 - Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew — 0:56
22. 021 - To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph — 2:36
23. 022 - Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley — 1:20
24. 023 - Constancy by Sir John Suckling — 1:04

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