World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)

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112 chapters4h 17mEnglish1904

About this book

The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Chapters (112)

1Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers

165

2Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne

137

4Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge

141

5A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter

6The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice

325

7Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci

8There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates

9Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper

225

10Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

102

11Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore

12On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau

167

13'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth

14The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly

289

15Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius

16The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth

17Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch

123

18Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón

138

19My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer

269

20To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial

21Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux

108

22A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats

120

23The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky

24Æsop by Andrew Lang

125

25Indirection by Richard Realf

149

26Proem by Madison Cawein

27The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

28Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller

29The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron

107

30Impression by Edmund Gosse

131

31The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave

109

32On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

33The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)

118

34Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth

35The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson

130

36On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

37The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang

38Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

39The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers

40The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder

41An Autograph by James Russell Lowell

42Art by Sir Gilbert Parker

138

43Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

121

44The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell

113

45The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson

187

46Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor

47Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby

253

48Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne

107

49One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser

50The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott

152

51Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr

52The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

147

53The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius

135

54Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson

55Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous

56The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor

57The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard

58Books by John Higgins

59Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

60Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

127

61To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley

62The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder

63A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden

238

64The Spell by Paul Verlaine

65The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins

419

66Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley

112

67Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden

591

68Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey

69Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman

297

70On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

182

71The Artist by Arthur Grissom

72A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton

73On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson

118

74Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman

161

75The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford

121

76Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood

219

77The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones

165

78'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham

210

79'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney

192

80Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott

81For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns

172

82The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay

189

83The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

722

84Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates

85The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker

104

86The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine

218

87Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

188

88Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

113

89Work by Henry van Dyke

90A Wish by Abraham Cowley

106

91Contentment by Joshua Sylvester

106

92Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene

93Song by John Bunyan

94In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange

147

95Cleon and I by Charles Mackay

111

96The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams

222

97Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes

233

98Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

302

99To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston

100A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend

112

101The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold

128

102Rest by Margaret L. Woods

103Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher

104Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

105Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

106Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

153

107Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth

108Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson

208

109The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton

148

110The Two Oceans by John Sterling

111Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne

329

112The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney

202

World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)

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