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World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Year of Publication: 1904Genres: Anthologies

Running Time: 05 hours 09 minutes 58 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley Leanne Yau	1:35
2	Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow Tomas Peter	2:20
3	A Farewell by Charles Kingsley Jason in Panama	0:57
4	Riding Down by Nora Perry Leanne Yau	2:13
5	A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin Leanne Yau	1:20
6	In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson Sonia	1:47
7	Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper Jason in Panama	1:02
8	To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson Craig Franklin	2:46
9	The School Girl by William Henry Venable Jason in Panama	2:22
10	Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tomas Peter	2:52
11	To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth Craig Franklin	4:22
12	Ruth by Thomas Hood Leanne Yau	1:13
13	The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson Leanne Yau	3:38
14	Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English Craig Franklin	2:29
15	Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley Leanne Yau	1:13
16	Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse Sonia	4:43
17	My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris Craig Franklin	1:48
18	To the Virgins by Robert Herrick Sonia	1:12
19	Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous Tomas Peter	1:11
20	The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley Craig Franklin	1:10
21	Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous Sonia	3:39
22	To Thaliarchus by Horace Sonia	1:41
23	A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck Leanne Yau	1:18
24	Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck Jason in Panama	1:26
25	Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim Tomas Peter	1:41
26	Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray Leanne Yau	6:08
27	The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore Leanne Yau	2:39
28	On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray Sonia	5:06
29	Spring Song by Bliss Carman Leanne Yau	4:41
30	Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Jason in Panama	2:43
31	The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman Tomas Peter	4:00
32	Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne Jason in Panama	1:27
33	The Heritage by James Russell Lowell Sonia	3:30
34	To Youth by Walter Savage Landor Sonia	1:18
35	My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jason in Panama	4:56
36	Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Tomas Peter	1:23
37	The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard Sonia	1:05
38	Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope Sonia	1:26
39	Home by Leonidas Tomas Peter	0:56
40	The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Leanne Yau	2:01
41	The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney Jason in Panama	1:00
42	Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton Craig Franklin	6:04
43	The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans Leanne Yau	1:53
44	The Auld House by Lady Nairne Tomas Peter	4:21
45	The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson Craig Franklin	2:06
46	If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith Craig Franklin	2:36
47	The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell Sonia	1:59
48	The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing Sonia	1:54
49	Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith Jason in Panama	2:37
50	The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats Tomas Peter	1:21
51	Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers Leanne Yau	2:56
52	The Children by Charles M. Dickinson Jason in Panama	3:30
53	Not One to Spare by Anonymous Sonia	4:03
54	Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow Jason in Panama	1:58
55	I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore Tomas Peter	1:30
56	The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee Craig Franklin	1:19
57	By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom Leanne Yau	3:09
58	My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton Craig Franklin	2:24
59	A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell Sonia	3:33
60	The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner Craig Franklin	1:45
61	The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns Sonia	11:50
62	A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier Tomas Peter	6:15
63	Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor Jason in Panama	1:07
64	The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Craig Franklin	1:23
65	Homeward Bound by Catullus Sonia	1:23
66	The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman Tomas Peter	1:16
67	The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Craig Franklin	3:11
68	A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman Sonia	1:48
69	In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland Leanne Yau	1:45
70	Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) Leanne Yau	1:20
71	A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare Jason in Panama	2:02
72	The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard Sonia	2:39
73	The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith Tomas Peter	3:03
74	When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell Sonia	3:50
75	Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott Leanne Yau	1:42
76	Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy Tomas Peter	2:04
77	The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sonia	2:33
78	Christmas by George Wither Tomas Peter	4:33
79	The Auld Folks by Andrew Park Tomas Peter	1:29
80	A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Leanne Yau	1:06
81	Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne Jason in Panama	2:10
82	Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson Leanne Yau	1:06
83	Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young Craig Franklin	3:27
84	Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Leanne Yau	3:37
85	Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Sonia	1:16
86	Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	1:22
87	Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Sonia	1:41
88	The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster Leanne Yau	1:09
89	A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke Leanne Yau	1:15
90	Parted Friends by James Montgomery Leanne Yau	1:19
91	When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	1:19
92	Jaffar by Leigh Hunt Sonia	2:45
93	The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore Sonia	1:30
94	We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Leanne Yau	1:19
95	Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer Craig Franklin	1:03
96	We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll Jason in Panama	2:19
97	Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer Jason in Panama	2:45
98	Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier Tomas Peter	2:19
99	When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare Jason in Panama	1:21
100	Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt Jason in Panama	0:48
101	Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter	1:27
102	The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia	4:31
103	Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns Craig Franklin	4:51
104	And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore Sonia	2:54
105	We Love but Few by Anonymous Craig Franklin	1:41
106	The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray Tomas Peter	2:31
107	A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore Leanne Yau	1:34
108	Platonic by William B. Terrett Leanne Yau	3:26
109	Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges) Craig Franklin	0:46
110	The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jason in Panama	3:20
111	The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray Tomas Peter	4:05
112	The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar Sonia	2:32
113	Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	7:32
114	Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman Leanne Yau	1:21
115	Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore Tomas Peter	2:06
116	A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger Craig Franklin	2:52
117	The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray Sonia	1:54
118	The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray Sonia	4:50
119	The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus Sonia	1:08
120	Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington Craig Franklin	0:57
121	To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper Jason in Panama	4:27
122	Advice by William Dunbar Craig Franklin	1:38
123	The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald Jason in Panama	2:18
124	Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain Sonia	1:54
125	Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns Sonia	3:59