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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