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World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

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AnthologiesElegies & OdesNarratives
108 chapters8h 7mEnglish1904

About this book

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Chapters (108)

1Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton
262
2Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
150
3Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
188
4To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley
180
5Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson
77
6Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman
216
7Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick
78
8The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope
126
9Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
222
10Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton
92
11On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt
141
12Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore
70
13The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
325
14The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)
152
15City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham
87
16The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey
85
17An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail
138
18Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden
85
19The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant
190
20Mist by Henry David Thoreau
63
21The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day
224
22Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
70
23The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North)
77
24A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman
159
25The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell
111
26The Nile by Leigh Hunt
78
27Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
94
28Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
233
29The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron
104
30The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore
148
31Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
208
32The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
142
33The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey
300
34The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
78
35The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp
196
36To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
88
37The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
326
38The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
100
39A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe
296
40February in Rome by Edmund Gosse
79
41Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
85
42A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
160
43Venice by John Addington Symonds
85
44Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
190
45The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough
131
46Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
180
47Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
179
48Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read
212
49England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith
103
50That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
188
51The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott
357
52O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne
161
53Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott
261
54An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
250
55The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
143
56The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
1587
57Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
86
58London by John Davidson
77
59The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone
337
60The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson
452
61Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
72
62The Settler by Alfred B. Street
224
63Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
192
64Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck
156
65Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
168
66The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor
159
67Scythe Song by Andrew Lang
75
68The Mowers by Myron B. Benton
338
69Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus')
339
70In Mexico by Evaleen Stein
136
71The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil
322
72Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
1326
73Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda
462
74Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér
562
75The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
485
76The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene
234
77The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
232
78Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt
284
79Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker
786
80The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis
388
81Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso
303
82Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis
337
83The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
192
84The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral
283
85The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt
164
86The Glove by Robert Browning
571
87Louis XV by John Sterling
167
88Hervé Riel by Robert Browning
486
89Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell
195
90How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
263
91Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1053
92Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
326
93The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer
952
94Lord Lovel by Anonymous
193
95Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous
335
96The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey
343
97The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
541
98England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
48
99Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg
711
100Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
186
101Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
281
102Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
880
103Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
473
104Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine
202
105The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
620
106Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier
347
107The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche
424
108Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe
201

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