Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative
| Introductory Essay | ||
| What ’s the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) | ||
| Descriptive Poems | ||
| I. Personal: Rulers; Statesmen; Warriors | ||
| To the Spring by Sir John Davies (1570–1626) | ||
| To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) | ||
| To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| “O, breathe not his name” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| Charles XII. by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) | ||
| Napoleon by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) | ||
| Napoleon by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| George Washington—Anonymous | ||
| Washington by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps (1853–1933) | ||
| Abraham Lincoln by Tom Taylor (1817–1880) | ||
| “O Captain! my Captain!” by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
| On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) | ||
| The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Albert, Prince Consort of England by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| I. Personal: Great Writers | ||
| To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| To Madame de Sevigné by Mathieu de Montreuil (1620–1691) | ||
| George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) | ||
| Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) | ||
| Sir Philip Sidney by Matthew Roydon (fl. 1580–1622) | ||
| To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland (1613–1658) | ||
| Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
| To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
| Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) | ||
| An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) | ||
| Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) | ||
| Under the Portrait of John Milton by John Dryden (1631–1700) | ||
| To Milton by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Walton’s Book of Lives by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| The Sonnet by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Camp-Bell by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) | ||
| To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp (1839–1905) | ||
| Memorabilia by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Byron by Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827) | ||
| Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons (1804–1850) | ||
| Burns by Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) | ||
| Burns by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| On a Portrait of Wordsworth by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| The Lost Leader by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Memorial Verses by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| From “Wordsworth’s Grave” by William Watson (1858–1935) | ||
| In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| A Welcome to “Boz” by William Henry Venable (1836–1920) | ||
| Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte (1836–1902) | ||
| Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) | ||
| Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| Lachrymæ Musarum by William Watson (1858–1935) | ||
| Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914) | ||
| Joseph Rodman Drake by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) | ||
| Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Poe’s Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner (1845–1903) | ||
| On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler (1843–1914) | ||
| Emerson by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) (1835–1905) | ||
| Lowell on Himself by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| “Out from behind this mask” by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
| Myself by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
| Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) | ||
| To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Longfellow by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
| House by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| I. Personal: Miscellaneous | ||
| Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| Anne Hathaway—Anonymous | ||
| The Poet’s Friend by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
| A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| Chopin by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) | ||
| The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Kane by Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–1862) | ||
| II. Nature and Art | ||
| Adam and Eve by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| To Ianthe, Sleeping by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Freedom in Dress by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
| Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| The Toilet by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
| Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| Laus Veneris by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) | ||
| On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
| “Those evening bells” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
| The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) | ||
| City Bells by Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) | ||
| The Cuckoo Clock by Caroline Bowles Southey (1786–1854) | ||
| An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail (1859–1945) | ||
| Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa” by Edward Dowden (1843–1913) | ||
| The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Mist by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) | ||
| The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day (1861–1927) | ||
| Smoke by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) | ||
| The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) (1785–1854) | ||
| A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803–1878) | ||
| The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell (1831–1886) | ||
| III. Places | ||
| The Nile by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
| Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) | ||
| The Orient by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Vale of Cashmere by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The Rhine by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Cataract of Lodore by Robert Southey (1774–1843) | ||
| The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The White Peacock by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) (1855–1905) | ||
| To Rome by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580–1645) | ||
| The Coliseum by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Pantheon by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| A Day in the Pamfili Doria by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) | ||
| February in Rome by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) | ||
| Saint Peter’s at Rome by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| A View across the Roman Campagna by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| Venice by John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) | ||
| Venice by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) | ||
| The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) | ||
| Venice by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Naples by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) | ||
| Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) | ||
| England by Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) | ||
| That England by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| The Knight by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| “O, the pleasant days of old!” by Frances Browne (1816–1879) | ||
| Melrose Abbey by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| An Old Time Christmas by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Castle Ruins by William Barnes (1801–1886) | ||
| The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) | ||
| Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| London by John Davidson (1857–1909) | ||
| The Village Schoolmistress by William Shenstone (1714–1763) | ||
| The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson (1810–1886) | ||
| Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) | ||
| The Settler by Alfred Billings Street (1811–1881) | ||
| Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) | ||
| Weehawken and the New York Bay by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) | ||
| Mannahatta by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
| The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) | ||
| Scythe Song by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) | ||
| The Mowers by Myron B. Benton (1834–1902) | ||
| Château Papineau by Susan Frances Harrison (“Seranus”) (1859–1935) | ||
| In Mexico by Evaleen Stein (1863–1923) | ||
| Narrative Poems | ||
| I. Greece | ||
| The Fall of Troy by Virgil (70–19 B.C.) | ||
| II. Rome | ||
| Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) | ||
| III. Norseland | ||
| Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym by Sæmund’s Edda | ||
| Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr by Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) | ||
| The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| IV. Germany | ||
| The Baron’s Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene (1802–1868) | ||
| The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (1736–1809) | ||
| V. The Orient | ||
| Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
| Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) | ||
| The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) | ||
| Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) | ||
| VI. Spain | ||
| Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis (“Monk Lewis”) (1775–1818) | ||
| The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) | ||
| VII. France | ||
| The Ballad of Guibour by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) | ||
| The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
| The Glove by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Louis XV. by John Sterling (1806–1844) | ||
| Hervé Riel by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| VIII. England | ||
| Mort D’Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Canterbury Pilgrims by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) | ||
| Lord Lovel—Anonymous | ||
| Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale—Anonymous | ||
| The Greenwood Shrift by Robert (1774–1843) and Caroline Southey (1786–1854) | ||
| The Revenge by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| England by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| IX. Scotland | ||
| Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg (1770–1835) | ||
| Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| Marmion and Douglas by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Fitz-James and Ellen by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Muckle-Mou’d Meg by James Ballantine (1808–1877) | ||
| The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) | ||
| Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| X. America | ||
| The Fight of the “Armstrong” Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) | ||
| Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850–1939) | ||