The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (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 5: Nature (Part 2). Read in English by Jason in Panama; Leanne Yau; Tomas Peter; Craig Franklin; and Sonia. The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. Summary by Tomas Peter

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 157
• Listed recording duration: 6:18:04

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• animals
• birds
• plants
• insects
• flowers
• sea

Opening tracks: first 24 of 157

1. 001 - The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 1:14
2. 002 - The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare — 1:34
3. 003 - The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor — 1:42
4. 004 - The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley — 2:34
5. 005 - The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey — 2:26
6. 006 - A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant — 7:15
7. 007 - The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor — 2:42
8. 008 - The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier — 2:38
9. 009 - The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms — 1:46
10. 010 - The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant — 4:27
11. 011 - Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill — 4:25
12. 012 - The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts — 3:15
13. 013 - Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — 3:51
14. 014 - The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt — 1:26
15. 015 - Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith — 3:43
16. 016 - The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor — 1:25
17. 017 - The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White — 1:22
18. 018 - To Daffodils by Robert Herrick — 1:07
19. 019 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth — 1:42
20. 020 - To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell — 3:24
21. 021 - Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke — 1:48
22. 022 - The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti — 1:32
23. 023 - The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson — 1:19
24. 024 - Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold — 1:51

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