World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

by Various

152 chapters6h 21mEnglish1904

About this book

This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

Chapters (152)

1To Myself by Paul Fleming

2The Flower by George Herbert

197

3Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton

4Invictus by William Ernest Henley

5Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle

354

6Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

7My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson

157

8The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

9Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell

107

10Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch

188

11The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart

288

12Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson

120

13Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough

14God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick

102

15Sonnet by Louise Labé

16Waiting by John Burroughs

17Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett

199

18Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine

102

19Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt

20I Hold Still by Julius Sturm

149

21The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette

184

23Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien

24The Saddest Fate by Anonymous

25The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood

215

26Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

106

27Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

180

28Sic Vita by Henry King

29Death the Leveller by James Shirley

30Virtue Immortal by George Herbert

108

31Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell

32Mortality by William Knox

214

33The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

211

34The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

35A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron

180

36The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge

140

37Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

295

38A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill

112

39Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

40The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias

41Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous

42On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

43Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

490

44God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

45Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing

104

46The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell

47Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy

48The Dead by Mathilde Blind

49On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers

50The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie

132

51The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin

129

52The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell

123

53The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell

223

54The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson

55Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster

234

56Jim's Kids by Eugene Field

164

57The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

878

58On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald

131

59Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay

60Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand

61The Death-bed by Thomas Hood

62A Death-bed by James Aldrich

63Requiescat by Matthew Arnold

64'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)

131

65Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott

117

66Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning

201

67Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

133

68Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan

138

69Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore

170

70Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

71She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery

72The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

298

73Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

368

74Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

75Highland Mary by Robert Burns

109

76Fair Helen by Anonymous

129

77Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

255

78Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

79After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston

135

80Lament for Heliodore by Meleager

81On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

82To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns

129

83Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton

160

84The Passage by Ludwig Uhland

85Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin

155

86Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

87The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton

154

88Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

108

89Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

514

90Après by Arthur Joseph Munby

101

91The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans

127

92Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

93Lavender by Anonymous

206

94What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne

95Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott

110

96When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman

974

97If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith

123

98Awakening by Washington Gladden

194

99Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar

130

100The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne

101Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle

157

102Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson

167

103Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood

101

104For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe

204

105Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown

106The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

151

107Prospice by Robert Browning

140

108I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg

198

109Farewell by Walter Savage Landor

110Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland

111To Death by Gluck

136

112Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett

143

113Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland

114In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne

128

115Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr

116Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

114

117The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier

118They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan

143

119The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr

128

120Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest

235

121Grief for the Dead by Anonymous

102

122The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick

175

123For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer

262

124Watching for Papa by Anonymous

125My Child by John Pierpont

262

126Song by Richard Le Gallienne

127The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

128'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe

121

129Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant

130De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

327

131Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

132Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

177

133Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

134In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson

135Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

108

136Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

159

137Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond

104

138Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

139The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold

258

140Peace by Anonymous

141Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

188

142Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan

165

143The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston

144The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant

338

145Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber

146Lycidas by John Milton

672

147After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold

244

148It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune

149There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery

259

150Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks

107

151Blind by Israel Zangwill

119

152The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare

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