World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
by Various
About this book
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter
Chapters (86)
1To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies
2To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard
3To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton
4O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore
5Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
6Napoleon by Victor Hugo
7Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
8On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne
9George Washington by Anonymous
10Washington by James Russell Lowell
11Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes
12William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell
13Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps
14Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor
15O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
16On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder
17The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman
18Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell
19Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
20To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
21In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell
22To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil
23George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
24To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
25On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons
26Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse
27Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon
28To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland
29Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
30On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
31To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson
32Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
33An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton
34Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge
35Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
36Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood
37Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden
38To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth
39Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth
40The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
41Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
42To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron
43Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp
44Memorabilia by Robert Browning
45Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok
46Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor
47On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth
48To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons
49Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott
50Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier
51To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats
52On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
53The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
54Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold
55From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson
56In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne
57A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable
58Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte
59Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne
60To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
61Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
62Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson
63Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
64The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field
65Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck
66Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier
67Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner
68On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne
69Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler
70Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)
71Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell
72Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman
73Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
74Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman
75Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
76Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar
77To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell
78Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson
79House by Robert Browning
80Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
81Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous
82The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
83A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns
84Chopin by Emma Lazarus
85The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier
86Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien
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