Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation
Introductory Essay | ||
An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott (1835–1922) | ||
I. Disappointment in Love | ||
The Course of True Love by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Linda to Hafed by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
“Love not” by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) | ||
The Princess by Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) | ||
Unrequited Love by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
The Banks o’ Doon by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Sonnet: “With how sad steps” by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) | ||
Agatha by Alfred Austin (1835–1913) | ||
The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Song: “A weary lot is thine, fair maid” by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne (Lindsay) Barnard (1750–1825) | ||
To a Portrait by Arthur Symons (1865–1945) | ||
Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) | ||
Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle (1735–1788) | ||
“Waly, waly”—Anonymous | ||
Lady Ann Bothwell’s Lament—Anonymous | ||
“My heid is like to rend, Willie” by William Motherwell (1797–1835) | ||
Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) | ||
A Woman’s Love by John Hay (1838–1905) | ||
The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers (1862–1912) | ||
“Has summer come without the rose?” by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881) | ||
The Dirty Old Man by William Allingham (1824–1889) | ||
Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) | ||
Divided by Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) | ||
To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot (1496–1544) | ||
The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges) | ||
“Take, O, take those lips away” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) | ||
Woman’s Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638) | ||
Time’s Revenge by Agathias (c. 530–582) | ||
The Dream by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
“Alas! how light a cause” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
Blighted Love by Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) | ||
The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||
The Portrait by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) | ||
Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) | ||
Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) | ||
The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) | ||
Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux (1110–1147) | ||
Faith by Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) | ||
II. Parting and Absence | ||
Parting by Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) | ||
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace (1618–1658) | ||
Good-bye—Anonymous | ||
“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
“O, my Luve ’s like a red, red rose” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
“Maid of Athens, ere we part” by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
Song of the Young Highlander by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay (1685–1732) | ||
The Parting Lovers—Anonymous | ||
Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay (1686–1758) | ||
“As slow our ship” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) | ||
“Adieu, adieu! my native shore” by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
Farewell to his Wife by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
“Come, let us kisse and parte” by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) | ||
“Farewell! thou art too dear” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Kathleen Mavourneen by Louisa Macartney Crawford (1790–1858) | ||
“We parted in silence” by Louisa Macartney Crawford (1790–1858) | ||
Auf Wiedersehen by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
Palinode by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
“Farewell!—but whenever” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
Parting of Hector and Andromache by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) | ||
Hector to His Wife by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) | ||
To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace (1618–1658) | ||
To Her Absent Sailor by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
“I love my Jean” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell (1797–1835) | ||
“O, saw ye bonnie Leslie?” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
The Rustic Lad’s Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) | ||
Absence by Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) | ||
Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel (c. 1734–1769) | ||
Daisy by Francis Thompson (1859–1907) | ||
Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?–1845) | ||
“What ails this heart o’ mine?” by Susanna Blamire (1747–1794) | ||
Love’s Memory by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Absence—Anonymous | ||
Thinkin’ Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) (1866–1902) | ||
“Tears, idle tears” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) | ||
“Come to me, dearest” by Joseph Brenan (1828–1857) | ||
The Wife to her Husband—Anonymous | ||
My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) | ||
Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) | ||
The Present Good by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
III. Adversity | ||
Man by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
The World by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) | ||
“Moan, moan, ye dying gales” by Henry Neele (1798–1828) | ||
The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles (1592–1644) | ||
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
The Wail of Prometheus Bound by Æschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) | ||
Samson on His Blindness by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
Lines: “My prime of youth is but a frost of cares” by Chidiock Tichborne (1563–1586) | ||
“Hence, all ye vain delights” by John Fletcher (1579–1625) | ||
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
The Approach of Age by George Crabbe (1754–1832) | ||
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
Perished by Mary Louise Ritter | ||
Latest Verses by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) | ||
The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
“What can an old man do but die?” by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
“Over the hill to the poor-house” by Will Carleton (1845–1912) | ||
Old by Ralph Hoyt (1806–1878) | ||
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
The Last Leaf by Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) | ||
The Old Vagabond by Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) | ||
The Beggar by Thomas Moss (1740–1808) | ||
A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) | ||
“They are dear fish to me”—Anonymous | ||
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother by Amanda M. Edmond (1824–1862) | ||
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
The Pauper’s Drive by Thomas Noel (1799–1861) | ||
Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) | ||
Beautiful Snow by John Whitaker Watson (1824–1890) | ||
London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) | ||
The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
Guilty, or Not Guilty?—Anonymous | ||
The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) | ||
Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
IV. Comfort and Cheer | ||
To Myself by Paul Fleming (1609–1640) | ||
The Flower by George Herbert (1593–1633) | ||
Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) | ||
Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) | ||
“Sad is our youth, for it is ever going” by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) | ||
My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson (1820–1898) | ||
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
“Times go by turns” by Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595) | ||
Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) | ||
The Changed Cross by Mrs. Charles Hobart | ||
Something Beyond by Mary (Clemmer) (Ames) Hudson (1839–1884) | ||
Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) | ||
God’s Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich (1633–1714) | ||
Sonnet: “While yet these tears have power to flow” by Louise Labé (c. 1520–1566) | ||
Waiting by John Burroughs (1837–1921) | ||
Aunt Phillis’s Guest by William Channing Gannett (1840–1923) | ||
“Ilka blade o’ grass keps its ain drap o’ dew” by James Ballantine (1808–1877) | ||
Unchanging by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) | ||
I Hold Still by Julius Sturm (1816–1896) | ||
The Good, Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
“When my ship comes in” by Robert Jones Burdette (1844–1914) | ||
Never Despair by William Smith O’Brien (1803–1864) | ||
The Saddest Fate—Anonymous | ||
The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood (1836–1900) | ||
V. Death and Bereavement | ||
Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
Soliloquy on Death by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Sic Vita by Henry King (1592–1669) | ||
Death the Leveller by James Shirley (1596–1666) | ||
Virtue Immortal by George Herbert (1593–1633) | ||
Man’s Mortality by Simon Wastell (c. 1566–1632) | ||
Mortality by William Knox (1789–1825) | ||
The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) | ||
The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919) | ||
A Picture of Death by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) | ||
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) | ||
Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) | ||
The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias of Rhodes (fl. 300 B.C.) | ||
Inscription on Melrose Abbey—Anonymous | ||
On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) | ||
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) | ||
God’s Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) | ||
The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) | ||
Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy (1842–1918) | ||
The Dead by Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) | ||
On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) | ||
The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) | ||
The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin (1809–1864) | ||
The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
The Morning-Glory by Maria (White) Lowell (1821–1853) | ||
The Widow’s Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) | ||
“Are the children at home?” by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) | ||
Jim’s Kids by Eugene Field (1850–1895) | ||
The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
On Anne Allen by Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883) | ||
Sonnet: “Yea, Love is strong as life” by Lady Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay (1844–1912) | ||
Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) | ||
The Death-Bed by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
A Death-Bed by James Aldrich (1810–1856) | ||
Requiescat by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
“The Unillumined Verge” by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) | ||
Coronach by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
“Thy braes were bonny” by John Logan (1748–1788) | ||
“Farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
“Softly woo away her breath” by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
“She died in beauty” by Charles Doyne Sillery (1807–1837) | ||
The Death of Minnehaha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Highland Mary by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Fair Helen—Anonymous | ||
“Oh that ’t were possible” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) | ||
After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887) | ||
Lament for Heliodore by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) | ||
On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I. by Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615) | ||
To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
Minstrel’s Song by Thomas Chatterton (17527#150;1770) | ||
The Passage by Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) | ||
Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan (1807–1867) | ||
“Home they brought her warrior dead” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
The King of Denmark’s Ride by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) | ||
Grief by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
Selections from “In Memoriam” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Après by Arthur Joseph Munby (1828–1910) | ||
“The fairest thing in mortal eyes” by Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465) | ||
“Break, break, break” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
Lavender—Anonymous | ||
What of the Darkness? by Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) | ||
Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) | ||
“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed” by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
“If I should die to-night” by Belle E. Smith | ||
Awakening by Washington Gladden (1836–1918) | ||
“Beyond the smiling and the weeping” by Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) | ||
The Land o’ the Leal by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) | ||
Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle (1826–1863) | ||
Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) | ||
“Farewell, Life” by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
Thalatta! Thalatta! by Joseph Brownlee Brown (1824–1888) | ||
The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
Prospice by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
“I would not live alway” by William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796–1877) | ||
Farewell by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
Love and Death by Margaret Deland (1857–1945) | ||
To Death—Anonymous | ||
“Asleep! asleep!” by Lucy Ann Bennett (1850–1927) | ||
Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland (1832–1864) | ||
In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) | ||
Hush! by Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) | ||
Life by Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) | ||
VI. Consolation | ||
The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
“They are all gone” by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) | ||
The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) | ||
Over the River by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield (1836–1870) | ||
Grief for the Dead—Anonymous | ||
The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick (1840–1904) | ||
For Charlie’s Sake by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) | ||
Watching for Papa—Anonymous | ||
My Child by John Pierpont (1785–1866) | ||
Song: “She ’s somewhere in the sunlight strong” by Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) | ||
The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
“Only a year” by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) | ||
Blessed are They that Mourn by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
“Blessed are They” by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918) | ||
Lines to the Memory of “Annie” by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) | ||
Death in Youth by Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) | ||
In Memoriam F. A. S. by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) | ||
Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918) | ||
Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) | ||
Peace—Anonymous | ||
Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
“Happy are the dead” by Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) | ||
“The green grass under the snow” by Annie A. Preston | ||
The Conqueror’s Grave by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
“Thou art gone to the grave” by Reginald Heber (1783–1826) | ||
Lycidas by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
After Death in Arabia by From the Arabic | ||
“It is not death to die” by George Washington Bethune (1805–1862) | ||
“There is no death” by J. L. McCreery | ||
Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks (1830–1908) | ||
Blind by Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) | ||
The Death of Death by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |