The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (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 5: Nature (Part 1) by Various. Read in English by Sonia; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Jason in Panama; Craig Franklin The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 159
• Listed recording duration: 6:28:17

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• snow
• light
• winter
• spring
• water
• rain

Opening tracks: first 24 of 159

1. 000 - The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas Roberts — 12:29
2. 001 - The World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William Wordsworth — 1:25
3. 002 - Earth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley — 3:34
4. 003 - On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling — 1:32
5. 004 - God in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert Browning — 4:02
6. 005 - My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth — 0:57
7. 006 - Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson — 3:09
8. 007 - The Country Faith by Norman Gale — 1:01
9. 008 - Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth — 9:43
10. 009 - Great Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson Gilder — 1:41
11. 010 - Come to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle Bowles — 1:13
12. 011 - Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray — 2:52
13. 012 - Nature by Jones Very — 1:18
14. 013 - Influence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William Wordsworth — 4:11
15. 014 - An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats — 1:52
16. 015 - The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth — 2:07
17. 016 - Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott — 2:45
18. 017 - The Faun (A Fragment) by Richard Hovey — 5:26
19. 018 - Invocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John Milton — 3:55
20. 019 - Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John Milton — 1:03
21. 020 - Light by George MacDonald — 3:58
22. 021 - The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor — 0:49
23. 022 - From the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham Cowley — 3:41
24. 023 - Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 1:37

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