World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

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125 chapters6h 5mEnglish1904

About this book

The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter

Chapters (124)

1The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

2Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

206

3Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore

139

4Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)

5The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

6Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare

7Fair Ines by Thomas Hood

154

8The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns

106

9Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney

10Agatha by Alfred Austin

121

11The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson

228

12Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

988

13Song by Sir Walter Scott

14Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard

207

15To a Portrait by Arthur Symons

16Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier

395

17The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine

18Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle

368

19Waly, Waly by Anonymous

207

20Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous

198

21My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell

214

22Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman

23A Woman's Love by John Hay

150

24The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers

25Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

125

26The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham

259

27Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell

490

28Divided by Jean Ingelow

498

29To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot

30The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)

31Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher

32Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton

112

33Time's Revenge by Agathias

34The Dream by Lord Byron

764

35Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore

163

36Blighted Love by Luís de Camões

37The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

38The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)

326

39Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

294

40Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge

442

41The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford

121

42Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux

43Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler

44Parting by Coventry Patmore

45To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace

46Good-bye by Anonymous

133

47Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns

131

48O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

49Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron

124

50Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott

121

51Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay

204

52The Parting Lovers by Anonymous

53Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay

131

54As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore

133

55Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough

112

56Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron

57Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron

178

58Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton

59Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare

60Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford

61We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford

106

62Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell

114

63Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell

113

64Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore

113

65Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer

524

66Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer

115

67To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace

68To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier

147

69I Love My Jean by Robert Burns

70Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell

279

71O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns

72The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir

138

73Absence by Frances Anne Kemble

137

74Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel

110

75Daisy by Francis Thompson

206

76Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)

109

77What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire

102

78Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

79Absence by Anonymous

80Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)

81"Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

104

82The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb

114

83Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan

198

84The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous

109

85My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster

164

86Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster

132

87The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper

88Man by Walter Savage Landor

89The World by Francis, Lord Bacon

105

90Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele

91The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles

154

92Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare

93The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus

171

94Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton

95Lines by Chidiock Tichborne

110

96Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher

97The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

230

98The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe

119

99Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley

191

100Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

329

101Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter

102Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron

135

103A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter

101

104The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes

105A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley

106"What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood

107Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton

451

108Old by Ralph Hoyt

440

109The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes

147

110The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

111The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger

161

112The Beggar by Thomas Moss

171

113A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley

308

114"They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous

144

115Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards

171

116The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood

228

117The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel

138

118Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis

111

119Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson

210

120London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)

121The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood

279

122Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous

189

123The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

279

124Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

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