World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)

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Über dieses Buch

The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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1Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson

2Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland

412

3Ideality by Hartley Coleridge

4Fancy by John Keats

271

5Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

6Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare

184

7Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick

193

8Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

9Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

108

10The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

176

11Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph

12The Fairies by William Allingham

160

13Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg

1037

14The Fairy Child by John Anster

115

15Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston

219

16The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake

2045

17Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly

18Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

203

19Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

20The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

195

21The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo

310

22The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton

235

23The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton

519

24Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns

712

25The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine

26The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

121

27The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne

28The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold

453

29The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow

30A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

166

31A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid

120

32The Comet by Charles Sangster

196

33The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan

589

34The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

452

35The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston

111

36Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell

508

37Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser

252

38Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser

234

39The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spenser

278

40The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser

41The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson

980

42Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

43The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

517

44Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2029

45Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe

359

46The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

515

47Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

324

48The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

155

49The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller

124

50The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly

185

51The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

999

52Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne

53A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone

54Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

55Sherwood by Alfred Noyes

256

56Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson

122

57Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young

251

58To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson

59Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore

60Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young

186

61Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson

109

62The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon

130

63The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare

64The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson

182

65The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

215

66A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson

67What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

218

68The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch

158

69The Making of Man by John White Chadwick

70The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond

120

71Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám

1492

72Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift

73This Life by William Drummond

74The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton

104

75Retribution by Friedrich von Logau

76The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh

211

77The Generous Air by Palladas

78Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson

79Life by Richard Henry Wilde

101

80Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough

130

81Life by George Herbert

82Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

83The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland

84History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

85My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel

86Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith

317

87London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly

126

88The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant

170

89L'Allegro by John Milton

456

90Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)

121

91The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith

100

92The Epicure by Anacreon

136

93The Indian Weed by Anonymous

94Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine

95Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio

96Il Penseroso by John Milton

542

97Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

176

98The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney

138

99The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge

372

100Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope

108

101Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne

151

102Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

103Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck

120

104Opportunity by William Blake

105Opportunity by John James Ingalls

106Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky

123

107Augury by Edith M. Thomas

108'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette

161

109A Tear by Samuel Rogers

107

110The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury

227

111The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill

164

112At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton

113A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier

114Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson

115Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller

100

116A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller

117Yussouf by James Russell Lowell

153

118Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser

155

119Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius

115

120Fortune by Sophocles

121Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope

140

122Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci

123The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor

124Growing Gray by Austin Dobson

121

125Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

126Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe

243

127The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale

422

128Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller

129The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope

233

130The Will by Dr. John Donne

236

131To a Skeleton by Anonymous

173

132The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar

156

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