All Episodes
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7 — 87 episodes
Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier
Chopin by Emma Lazarus
A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns
The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
House by Robert Browning
Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman
Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell
Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)
Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler
On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner
Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier
Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck
The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field
Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson
Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte
A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne
From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson
Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier
Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott
To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth
Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor
Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok
Memorabilia by Robert Browning
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp
To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron
Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth
To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth
Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden
Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood
Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton
Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson
On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland
Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse
On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons
To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil
In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell
To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman
On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell
Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Washington by James Russell Lowell
George Washington by Anonymous
On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
Napoleon by Victor Hugo
Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore
To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton
To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard
To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies
What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne