The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)


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(1 étoile; 1 critique)

The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a broad and diverse selection of light and comic verse on miscellaneous topics, including religion, the laboring classes, romance, government, food, the human body, animals, the natural world, and everyday hobbies. Also included are parodies and imitations, ingenuities and oddities, and nonsense verse, all using inventive techniques such as puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming, and dialect. - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 35 min)

Chapitres

Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes by Anonymous 2:22 Lu par Craig Franklin
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury: From 'Percy's Reliques' by Anonymous 6:42 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Gluggity Glug: From 'The Myrtle and the Vine' by George Colman the Younger 1:58 Lu par Leanne Yau
I Am a Friar of Orders Gray: From the Opera of 'Robin Hood' by John O'Keeffe 1:33 Lu par Jason in Panama
Good Ale by John Still 2:35 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Pilgrims and the Peas by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 3:36 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Vicar of Bray by Anonymous 4:52 Lu par Tomas Peter
Hudibras' Sword and Dagger: From 'Hudibras,' Part I by Dr. Samuel Butler 2:09 Lu par Sonia
The Fine Old English Gentleman by Anonymous 2:48 Lu par Foon
Toby Tosspot by George Colman the Younger 4:02 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Milkmaid by Jeffreys Taylor 2:47 Lu par Leanne Yau
Morning Meditations by Thomas Hood 2:23 Lu par Craig Franklin
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 1:34 Lu par Leanne Yau
Old Grimes by Albert G. Greene 2:34 Lu par Tomas Peter
Elegy on Madam Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith 1:46 Lu par Foon
The Grave-Yard: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 2:05 Lu par Tomas Peter
Faithless Nelly Gray (A Pathetic Ballad) by Thomas Hood 3:30 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood 3:31 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Orator Puff by Thomas Moore 2:11 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger by Horace Smith 2:40 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper 11:13 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2:22 Lu par Foon
The Razor-Seller by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) 3:51 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Paper (A Conversational Pleasantry) by Benjamin Franklin 3:48 Lu par Craig Franklin
Epitaph: For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea's Leg, Lost at … 2:07 Lu par Tomas Peter
Rudolph the Headsman: From 'This Is It' by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1:28 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Song of One Eleven Years in Prison by George Canning 3:12 Lu par Tomas Peter
Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray 2:14 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Captain Reece by William Schwenck Gilbert 4:48 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell': From 'The Bab Ballads' by William Schwenck Gilbert 4:59 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Art of Book-Keeping by Thomas Hood 4:06 Lu par Tomas Peter
Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns 1:56 Lu par Leanne Yau
To the Terrestrial Globe (By a Miserable Wretch) by William Schwenck Gilbert 1:19 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Nose and the Eyes by William Cowper 2:18 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Vowels: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift 0:47 Lu par Leanne Yau
Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck 4:39 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough 1:32 Lu par Sonia
The New Church Organ by Will Carleton 4:21 Lu par Sonia
Tonis ad Resto Mare by Jonathan Swift 1:30 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Irishman and the Lady by William Maginn 2:36 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Recruit by Robert William Chambers 3:16 Lu par Tomas Peter
Ritter Hugo by Charles Godfrey Leland 2:22 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland 2:50 Lu par Tomas Peter
Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Charles Follen Adams 2:13 Lu par Leanne Yau
Dot Long-Handled Dipper by Charles Follen Adams 3:02 Lu par Sonia
The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.) 7:53 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
America: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell 2:21 Lu par Leanne Yau
What Mr. Robinson Thinks: From 'The Biglow Papers,' No. III by James Russell Lo… 3:40 Lu par Craig Franklin
Swell's Soliloquy by Anonymous 1:44 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Compliment by Eugene Field 1:19 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Nantucket Skipper by James Thomas Fields 2:29 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The One-Hoss Shay; or, The Deacon's Masterpiece (A Logical Story) by Oliver Wen… 7:04 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Griggsby's Station by James Whitcomb Riley 2:56 Lu par Craig Franklin
He'd Had No Show by Sam Walter Foss 1:59 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Mystified Quaker in New York by Anonymous 4:47 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
To the 'Sextant' by Arabella M. Willson 4:09 Lu par Foon
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay 2:50 Lu par Sonia
To the Pliocene Skull (A Geological Address) by Bret Harte 4:35 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Little Breeches: A Pike County View of Special Providence by John Hay 2:56 Lu par Jason in Panama
Jim by Bret Harte 2:05 Lu par Jason in Panama
Banty Tim by John Hay 2:57 Lu par Foon
Dow's Flat by Bret Harte 4:00 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Society upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte 3:03 Lu par Jason in Panama
Plain Language from Truthful James (Popularly Known as 'The Heathen Chinee') by… 2:35 Lu par Leanne Yau
A Plantation Ditty by Frank Lebby Stanton 1:12 Lu par Leanne Yau
De Fust Banjo by Irwin Russell 4:00 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Perils of Thinking by Anonymous 0:45 Lu par Jason in Panama
Nebuchadnezzar by Irwin Russell 2:04 Lu par Foon
A Life's Love by Anonymous 1:36 Lu par Craig Franklin
Darwin by Mortimer Collins 0:36 Lu par Craig Franklin
Ode for a Social Meeting (With Slight Alterations by a Teetotaller) by Oliver W… 2:26 Lu par Sonia
Hollow Hospitality: From 'Satires,' Book III, Satire 3 by Dr. Joseph Hall 2:31 Lu par Sonia
A Recipe: Roasted Sucking-Pig (from 'Punch's Poetical Cookery Book') by Anonymo… 2:17 Lu par Foon
A Recipe for Salad by Sydney Smith 1:44 Lu par Leanne Yau
Ode to Tobacco by Charles S. Calverley 1:56 Lu par Tomas Peter
A Farewell to Tobacco by Charles Lamb 7:23 Lu par Foon
Too Great a Sacrifice by Anonymous 0:58 Lu par Leanne Yau
From 'Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum' by Wallace Irwin 2:02 Lu par Tomas Peter
A Saddened Tramp by Anonymous 0:52 Lu par Jason in Panama
The Modern House That Jack Built by Anonymous 4:14 Lu par Foon
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder by George Canning 2:42 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Deborah Lee by William H. Burleigh 2:47 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Cock and the Bull by Charles Stuart Calverley 7:34 Lu par Sonia
The Auld Wife by Charles Stuart Calverley 2:37 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Lovers, and a Reflection by Charles Stuart Calverley 4:03 Lu par Sonia
Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3:30 Lu par Sonia
The Arab by Charles Stuart Calverley 2:17 Lu par Sonia
The Modern Hiawatha by Anonymous 0:58 Lu par Foon
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem by Rober… 8:19 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Belagcholly Days by Anonymous 1:50 Lu par Leanne Yau
Sneezing by Leigh Hunt 1:09 Lu par Sonia
To My Nose by Alfred A. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill) 0:51 Lu par Sonia
Lapsus Calami by James Kenneth Stephen 1:10 Lu par Sonia
A Conservative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2:22 Lu par Leanne Yau
'Forever' by Charles Stuart Calverley 2:04 Lu par Sonia
Siege of Belgrade by Anonymous 2:06 Lu par Tomas Peter
My Love by Anonymous 1:39 Lu par Leanne Yau
Ode to the Human Heart by Laman Blanchard 1:39 Lu par Craig Franklin
Metrical Feet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1:03 Lu par Tomas Peter
Nocturnal Sketch (Blank Verse in Rhyme) by Thomas Hood 2:42 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Railroad Rhyme by John Godfrey Saxe 2:34 Lu par Craig Franklin
Physics (The Unconscious Poetizing of a Philosopher) by William Whewell 0:47 Lu par Foon
The Collegian to His Bride: Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form … 1:11 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Lawyer's Invocation to Spring by Henry Howard Brownell 1:07 Lu par Leanne Yau
The Cosmic Egg by Anonymous 1:17 Lu par Foon
The Hen by Matthias Claudius 1:45 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Ode—To the Roc by William John Courthope 3:48 Lu par Sonia
Motherhood by Charles Stuart Calverley 3:05 Lu par Leanne Yau
Disaster by Charles Stuart Calverley 2:38 Lu par Foon
Lines Written in an Album by Willis Gaylord 1:01 Lu par Tomas Peter
On the Brink by Charles Stuart Calverley 2:50 Lu par Leanne Yau
The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche 2:23 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Larks and Nightingales by Nathan Haskell Dole 1:30 Lu par Leanne Yau
Of Blue China by Andrew Lang 1:37 Lu par Leanne Yau
A Riddle: The Letter 'H' by Catherine Fanshawe 2:07 Lu par Craig Franklin
A Threnody by George Thomas Lanigan 2:44 Lu par Sonia
Lines to Miss Florence Huntington by Anonymous 2:35 Lu par Sonia
Nonsense by Thomas Moore 1:02 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess 0:36 Lu par Tomas Peter
Psycholophon by Gelett Burgess 0:58 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Baker's Tale: From 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (… 3:55 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 1:46 Lu par Leanne Yau
For a Novel of Hall Caine's (After Kipling) by Robert Bridges (Droch) 0:48 Lu par Sonia