The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (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 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) by Various. Read in English by Lian Pang; Gaby; Sonia; Tomas Peter. This is the third 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 poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 152
• Listed recording duration: 6:21:14

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• death
• sorrow
• bereavement
• comfort
• world's best poetry
• cheer
• consolation

Opening tracks: first 24 of 152

1. 001 - To Myself by Paul Fleming — 1:07
2. 002 - The Flower by George Herbert — 3:17
3. 003 - Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton — 1:13
4. 004 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley — 1:07
5. 005 - Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle — 5:54
6. 006 - Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere — 1:17
7. 007 - My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson — 2:37
8. 008 - The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 1:33
9. 009 - Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell — 1:47
10. 010 - Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch — 3:08
11. 011 - The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart — 4:48
12. 012 - Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson — 2:00
13. 013 - Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough — 1:15
14. 014 - God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick — 1:42
15. 015 - Sonnet by Louise Labé — 1:06
16. 016 - Waiting by John Burroughs — 1:25
17. 017 - Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett — 3:19
18. 018 - Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine — 1:42
19. 019 - Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt — 1:03
20. 020 - I Hold Still by Julius Sturm — 2:29
21. 021 - The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — 1:15
22. 022 - When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette — 3:04
23. 023 - Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien — 1:30
24. 024 - The Saddest Fate by Anonymous — 1:30

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