Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.
Book III: Nos. 209–341
Mortality — Melancholy — Sorrow — Sin — Ethics & Conduct — Philosophies & Humanities.
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Sleep and Poetry
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)—From Pièces retranchées
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Song
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet XII
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)—Song
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Ozymandias
- From the Chinese—The Ruin
- Thomas Gray (1716–1771)—From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905)—Vitrail
- James Shirley (1596–1666)—Death the Leveller
- John Masefield (1878–1967)—Truth
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585)—From Sonnets pour Hélène
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—The opening of Ode on Departing Youth
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet LXXI
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song from Tempest
- George Peele (1558?–1597?)—From A Farewell to Arms
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet LXXIII
- Emily Bronte (1818–1848)—From Poems
- François Villon (1431–1463?)—Ballade des dames du temps jadis
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Song in Hamlet
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Song from Lyrical Poems
- Nicias, a friend of Theocritus—From Greek Epigrams
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Death
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)—From The Whaups
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From Hyperion
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—From K. John
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree
- George Borrow (1803–1881)—From Lavengro
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From The Pang More Sharp Than All
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—A Widow Bird
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Sonnet
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet LX
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From Constancy to an Ideal Object
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From Hellas
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930)—Revenants
- John Milton (1608–1674)—On His Deceased Wife
- Emily Bronte (1818–1848)—From Poems
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—Stanzas
- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867)—A Song
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—A Lament
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 240
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From 1821
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From the Ode to Melancholy
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From The Solitary Reaper
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From the Ode to a Nightingale
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- Francis Jammes (1868–1938)—Clairières dans le ciel
- Lord De Tabley (1835–1895)—From The Churchyard on the Sands
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)—From To Misery
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- William Blake (1757–1827)—From Songs of Innocence
- George Herbert (1593–1633)—From Bitter-Sweet
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From Samson Agonistes
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—From Essay V
- John Keats (1795–1821)—The opening of Hyperion
- Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)—Ante Aram
- John Keats (1795–1821)—From the ode to Sorrow in Endymion
- George Borrow (1803–1881)—From Lavengro
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)—From Bonheur
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 144
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)—The Candle Indoors
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Mercy
- Willoughby Weaving (1885–1977)—From Poems
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881)—From The Brothers Karamazof
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost, iii. 418
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From Lay Sermons
- William Blake (1757–1827)—The Tyger
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost, ii. 688
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- Bible—Romans 7
- John Masefield (1878–1967)—From The Everlasting Mercy
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, i, p. 131
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)—Hymn
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)—From Gitanjali
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Sonnet CXXIX
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)—From Gitanjali
- Richard Crashaw (1612?–1649)—From Dies Irae
- John Donne (1572–1631)—From A Hymn to God the Father
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 188
- Saint Augustine (354–430)—From Confessions
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)—xi. 16
- John Milton (1608–1674)—From the Areopagitica
- Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)—Essais, ii. 20
- Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)—From Essay on Solitude
- William Blake (1757–1827)—The Sick Rose
- Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801)—From Lundis
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 165
- Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)—Ethics iii. 5, § 15
- Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938)—From The Fool’s Adventure
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)—xii. 32
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)—xi. 1
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Hamlet, iv. 4
- Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)—Nicomachean Ethics
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)—From The Lotos-eaters
- George Darley (1795–1846)—From Nepenthe
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677—From Ethics
- Plato (427?–347 B.C.)—From Timaeus
- Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)—From The Character of a Happy Life
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—Hamlet, iii. 2
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—From Ode to Duty
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- René Descartes (1596–1650)—From Discours de la Méthode
- Homer (fl. 850 B.C.)—From the Odyssey
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 182
- William Blake (1757–1827)—Opportunity
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—From Pensées
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost. vii. 24
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677—Ethics v. 42
- Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)—Essais, ii. 12
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 23
- John Milton (1608–1674)—Paradise Lost, ii. 557
- Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943)—From Stoics and Sceptics
- Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801)—From Lundis
- Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801)—From Lundis
- Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801)—From Lundis
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)—From Pulvis et Umbra
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—Advancement of Learning, I. v. 11
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)—From Into the Twilight
- Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)—From Gösta Berling’s Saga
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (c. 1821–1881)—From Fragments d’un Journal Intime, ii, p. 107
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From Human Life, or the Denial of Immortality
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)—From The Ancient Mariner
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—From Essay II
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677—Ethics iv. 67
- Anonymous—From Greek Anthology
- Anonymous—From Greek Anthology
- Bible—Ecclesiastes, ix. 7
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)—Advancement of Learning, II. xxi. 5
- John Milton (1608–1674)—To Cyriack Skinner
- William Hazlitt (1778–1830)—From The Round Table
- John Milton (1608–1674)—To Mr. Lawrence