The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations


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The last of ten volumes compilation of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This volume collects excerpts and quotations from famous poems, grouped under diverse topics. - Summary by Sonia

Chapters

After all, what is poetry ? by John Raymond Howard 40:47 Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Absence - Action - Admiration - Adornment - Adventure 9:33 Read by Adrian Stephens
Adversity - Advice - Age - Air - Ambition 17:14 Read by Sonia
Angel - Anger - Angling - Animals - Anthology 13:20 Read by Craig Franklin
Apparition - Appearance - Architecture - Argument - Aristocracy 13:13 Read by Tomas Peter
Art - Aspiration - Authority - Authorship - Baby 10:35 Read by Sonia
Battle - Beauty - Bell - Bible - Birds 23:01 Read by Craig Franklin
Blessing - Blush - Boating - Books - Borrowing 8:52 Read by Sonia
Boy - Care - Chance - Change - Charity 9:54 Read by Tomas Peter
Childhood - Christmas - Church - City - Clergy 12:40 Read by Adrian Stephens
Cloud - Comfort - Compliment - Conceit - Conscience 12:06 Read by Sonia
Consolation - Constancy - Contentment - Conversation - Coquetry 13:58 Read by Adrian Stephens
Countries - Courage - Courtesy - Cowardice - Creed 18:41 Read by Tomas Peter
Crime - Criticism - Custom - Day - Death 17:57 Read by Sonia
Deceit - Deeds - Defeat - Despair - Devil 9:14 Read by Tomas Peter
Dew - Disappointment - Discontent - Distance - Doubt 11:12 Read by Craig Franklin
Dream - Dress - Drink - Duty - Dying 11:10 Read by Sonia
Easter - Ecclesiasticism - Eternity - Evening - Expectation 10:31 Read by Adrian Stephens
Eye - Face - Fairy - Faith - Falsehood 14:22 Read by Craig Franklin
Fame - Fancy - Farewell - Farming - Fashion 11:25 Read by Sonia
Fate - Fault - Fear - Feeling - Fidelity 10:20 Read by Tomas Peter
Fish - Flattery - Flowers - Fool - Forget 22:02 Read by Sonia
Forgive - Fortune - Freedom - Friendship - Fright 18:02 Read by Tomas Peter
Future - Gentleman - Ghost - Glory - God 13:02 Read by Craig Franklin
The Gods - Good - Gratitude - The Grave - Greatness 12:41 Read by Adrian Stephens
Grief - Habit - Hair - Hand - Happiness 9:34 Read by Craig Franklin
Hate - Heart - Heaven - Hell - Help 7:25 Read by Sonia
Heroism - Home - Hope - Horsemanship - Hospitality 13:14 Read by Craig Franklin
Humility - Hunting - Hypocrisy - Idleness - Illness 14:30 Read by Adrian Stephens
Imagination - Immortality - Inconstancy - Ingratitude - Inn 15:50 Read by Craig Franklin
Innocence - Insects - Instruction - Invention - Jealousy 11:07 Read by Adrian Stephens
Jesus Christ - Jewel - Journalism - Joy - Kiss 13:51 Read by Tomas Peter
Knowledge - Labor - Law - Learning - Letters 16:25 Read by Adrian Stephens
Life - Loss - Love - Man - Manners 30:54 Read by Tomas Peter
Matrimony - Medicine - Melancholy - Memory - Mercy 21:53 Read by Adrian Stephens
Merriment - Mind - Missions - Moderation - Moon 15:51 Read by Sonia
Morning - Mother - Mountain - Mourning - Murder 16:55 Read by Craig Franklin
Music - Name - Nature - Night - Nobility 22:13 Read by Adrian Stephens
Opinion - Opportunity - Oratory - Order - Pain 6:02 Read by Tomas Peter
Painting - Parting - Passion - The Past - Patience 10:49 Read by Sonia
Patriotism - Peace - The Pen - The People - Perfection 8:31 Read by Tomas Peter
Perfume - Personal - Philosophy - Pity - Pleasure 25:24 Read by Craig Franklin
The Poet - Poetry - Politics - Possession - Poverty 18:41 Read by Adrian Stephens
Power - Praise - Prayer - Preaching - The Present 8:31 Read by Tomas Peter
Pride - Progress - Promise - Quarrel - Rain 9:44 Read by Adrian Stephens
Rainbow - Reading - Reasons - Regret - Religion 9:48 Read by Craig Franklin
Remorse - Reputation - Resignation - Resolution - Rest 11:16 Read by Sonia
Retribution - Revenge - The Rod - Romance - Royalty 5:57 Read by Tomas Peter
Rural Life - Sabbath - Satire - Scandal - School 11:05 Read by Craig Franklin
Science - Scold - Sculpture - Sea - Seasons 21:04 Read by Sonia
Secret - Shame - Ship - Sigh - Silence 8:40 Read by Tomas Peter
Sin - Sincerity - Sky - Sleep - Smile 9:26 Read by Sonia
Society - Soldier - Solitude - Sorrow - Soul 15:05 Read by Adrian Stephens
Speech - Spirits - The Stage - Star - Statecraft 12:51 Read by Tomas Peter
Stealing - Storm - Success - Suicide - Sun 11:48 Read by Craig Franklin
Suspicion - Sympathy - The Table - Taste - Tear 8:19 Read by Sonia
Temper - Temptation - Theology - Thought - Time 8:26 Read by Tomas Peter
Tobacco - Tomorrow - Treason - Tree - Trifle 10:34 Read by Adrian Stephens
Truth - Tyranny - Vanity - Variety - Virtue 12:01 Read by Craig Franklin
Visions - War - Waters - Wealth - Wife 29:43 Read by Adrian Stephens
Wind - Wine - Wisdom - Woman - Youth - Zeal 23:25 Read by Craig Franklin