World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)


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 (6 hr 18 min)

Chapters

The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth L…
The Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
The Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley
The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey
A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant
The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor
The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms
The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant
Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill
The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts
Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt
Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith
The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor
The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White
To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell
Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke
The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew Arnold
To Violets by Robert Herrick
A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson
The Wreath by Meleager
The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier
The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens
The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan
The Maize by William W. Fosdick
The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck
The Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey Chaucer
To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns
To Blossoms by Robert Herrick
The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith
The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb
Copa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna Coolbrith
The Moss Rose by F.W. Krummacher
Flowers by Thomas Hood
'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas Moore
To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
The Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour Bridges
Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman
The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley
Birds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
To the Cuckoo by John Logan
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth
Hark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith
To the Skylark by William Wordsworth
To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Skylark by James Hogg
The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana
The Sandpiper by Celia Thaxter
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
To the Nightingale by John Milton
The Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard Crashaw
Philomena by Matthew Arnold
Unmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William Cowper
Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
The O'Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg
To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs
The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch
The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton
The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie
The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis
The English Robin by Harrison Weir
Asian Birds by Robert Seymour Bridges
The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton
The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague
The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt
The Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. Roberts
Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous
Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore Watts
The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt
A Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter Harte
To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William Oldys
To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson
A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman
To a Louse by Robert Burns
To a Mouse by Robert Burns
The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb
Remonstrance with the Snails by Anonymous
The Tiger by William Blake
The Lion's Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath
Fodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania
The Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci
Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer
To a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney
Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott
The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by Anony…
Chiquita by Bret Harte
The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
The Sea by Bernard Barton
The Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ocean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert Pollok
The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman
The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Hemans
Flotsam and Jetsam by Anonymous
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner
Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James Montgomery
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham
Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell
My Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore Cooper
The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin
The Minute-Gun by R.S. Sharpe
All's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas Dibdin
The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry
Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin
Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery Channing
A Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes Sargent
To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby
Tacking Ship Off Shore by Walter Mitchell
The Storm by George Alexander Stevens
The Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord Byron
The Shipwreck by William Falconer
The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Polar Quest by Richard Burton
The Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. Roberts
The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche
The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb
The Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William Wordsworth
The Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage Landor
Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier
Among the Rocks by Robert Browning
The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
How's My Boy? by Sydney Dobell
The Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt
Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin
The Mariner's Dream by William Dimond
The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti