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

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2), credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2). Read in English by Craig Franklin; Anusha Iyer; Leanne Yau; Jason in Panama; Tomas Peter; and Sonia. The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous and influential love poems relating to such topics as cautions and complaints; lovers; love's power; and wedded love. Summary by Tomas Peter.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 142
• Listed recording duration: 6:18:34

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• love
• Lovers
• world's best poetry
• cautions
• complaints
• weddings

Opening tracks: first 24 of 142

1. 001 - Let Not Woman E'er Complain by Robert Burns — 1:10
2. 002 - To Chloe: An Apology for Going into the Country by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) — 2:39
3. 003 - A Woman's Answer by Adelaide Anne Procter — 2:56
4. 004 - Love's Blindness: Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare — 1:31
5. 005 - 'Full Many a Glorious Morning': Sonnet XXXIII by William Shakespeare — 1:23
6. 006 - Alexis, Here She Stayed by William Drummond — 1:33
7. 007 - Rivalry in Love by William Walsh — 1:02
8. 008 - My Dear and Only Love by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose — 6:12
9. 009 - The Faithful Lovers by Anonymous — 2:37
10. 010 - The Chronicle by Abraham Cowley — 3:09
11. 011 - Constancy by Anonymous — 1:36
12. 012 - The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray — 2:09
13. 013 - The Common Doom by James Shirley — 1:06
14. 014 - The Author's Resolution, in a Sonnet: From 'Fair Virtue' by George Wither — 2:37
15. 015 - Answer to Master Wither's Song, 'Shall I, Wasting in Despair' by Ben Jonson — 2:30
16. 016 - Forever Unconfessed by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton — 1:25
17. 017 - Advice to a Girl by Thomas Campion — 1:15
18. 018 - Si Jeunesse Savait! by Edmund Clarence Stedman — 1:18
19. 019 - Waiting for the Grapes by William Maginn — 2:03
20. 020 - Give Me More Love or More Disdain by Thomas Carew — 1:12
21. 021 - Affaire d'Amour: For E.W.W. by Margaret Deland — 1:30
22. 022 - A Renunciation by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford — 1:32
23. 023 - Why So Pale and Wan? by Sir John Suckling — 1:00
24. 024 - A Woman's Question by Adelaide Anne Procter — 2:33

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