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

by Various

125 chapters5h 9mEnglish1904

About this book

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

Chapters (125)

1The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley

2Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow

140

3A Farewell by Charles Kingsley

4Riding Down by Nora Perry

133

5A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin

6In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson

107

7Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper

8To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson

166

9The School Girl by William Henry Venable

142

10Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

172

11To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth

262

12Ruth by Thomas Hood

13The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson

218

14Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English

149

15Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley

16Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse

283

17My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris

108

18To the Virgins by Robert Herrick

19Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous

20The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley

21Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous

219

22To Thaliarchus by Horace

101

23A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck

24Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck

25Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

101

26Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray

368

27The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore

159

28On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray

306

29Spring Song by Bliss Carman

281

30Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

163

31The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman

240

32Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne

33The Heritage by James Russell Lowell

210

34To Youth by Walter Savage Landor

35My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

296

36Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

37The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard

38Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope

39Home by Leonidas

40The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

121

41The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney

42Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton

364

43The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans

113

44The Auld House by Lady Nairne

261

45The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson

126

46If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith

156

47The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell

119

48The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing

114

49Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith

157

50The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats

51Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers

176

52The Children by Charles M. Dickinson

210

53Not One to Spare by Anonymous

243

54Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow

118

55I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore

56The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee

57By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom

189

58My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton

144

59A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell

213

60The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner

105

61The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns

710

62A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier

375

63Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor

64The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

65Homeward Bound by Catullus

66The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman

67The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

191

68A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman

108

69In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland

105

70Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas)

71A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

122

72The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard

159

73The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith

183

74When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell

230

75Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott

102

76Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy

124

77The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

153

78Christmas by George Wither

273

79The Auld Folks by Andrew Park

80A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

81Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne

130

82Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson

83Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young

207

84Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

217

85Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

86Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

87Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

101

88The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster

89A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke

90Parted Friends by James Montgomery

91When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare

92Jaffar by Leigh Hunt

165

93The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore

94We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

95Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer

96We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll

139

97Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer

165

98Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier

139

99When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare

100Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

101Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare

102The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

271

103Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns

291

104And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore

174

105We Love but Few by Anonymous

101

106The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray

151

107A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore

108Platonic by William B. Terrett

206

109Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges)

110The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

200

111The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray

245

112The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar

152

113Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

452

114Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman

115Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore

126

116A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger

172

117The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray

114

118The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray

290

119The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus

120Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington

121To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper

267

122Advice by William Dunbar

123The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald

138

124Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain

114

125Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

239

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

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