The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (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 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Lian Pang; Tomas Peter; Gaby The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 125
• Listed recording duration: 6:05:54

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• death
• adversity
• comfort
• world's best poetry
• disappointment
• absence

Opening tracks: first 24 of 125

1. 000 - An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott — 30:31
2. 001 - The Course of True Love: From ''Midsummer Night's Dream,'' Act I. Sc.1 by William Shakespeare — 1:30
3. 002 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 3:26
4. 003 - Linda to Hafed: From ''The Fire-Worshippers'' by Thomas Moore — 2:19
5. 004 - Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton) — 1:34
6. 005 - The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — 1:14
7. 006 - Unrequited Love: From ''Twelfth NIght,'' Act I. Sc. by William Shakespeare — 1:27
8. 007 - Fair Ines by Thomas Hood — 2:34
9. 008 - The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns — 1:46
10. 009 - Sonnet: From ''Astrophel and Stella'' by Sir Philip Sidney — 1:23
11. 010 - Agatha by Alfred Austin — 2:01
12. 011 - The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson — 3:48
13. 012 - Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — 16:28
14. 013 - Song by Sir Walter Scott — 1:12
15. 014 - Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard — 3:27
16. 015 - To a Portrait by Arthur Symons — 1:05
17. 016 - Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier — 6:35
18. 017 - The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine — 1:22
19. 018 - Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle — 6:08
20. 019 - Waly, Waly by Anonymous — 3:27
21. 020 - Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous — 3:18
22. 021 - My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell — 3:34
23. 022 - Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman — 0:54
24. 023 - A Woman's Love by John Hay — 2:30

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