Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume V. Nature
| Introductory Essay | ||
| The Poetry of Nature by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| I. Nature’s Influence | ||
| “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Earth, Ocean, Air by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling (1806–1844) | ||
| God in Nature by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| “My heart leaps up” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| The Country Faith by Norman Gale (1862–1942) | ||
| Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| “Great Nature is an army gay” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) | ||
| “Come to these scenes of peace” by William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) | ||
| Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) | ||
| Nature by Jones Very (1813–1880) | ||
| Influence of Natural Objects by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) | ||
| The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott (1841–1904) | ||
| The Faun by Richard Hovey (1864–1900) | ||
| II. Light: Day: Night | ||
| Invocation to Light by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Light by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Light by George MacDonald (1824–1905) | ||
| The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819–1887) | ||
| From the “Hymn to Light” by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) | ||
| Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) | ||
| Morning Song by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) | ||
| Morning by John Cunningham (1729–1773) | ||
| “Pack clouds away” by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) | ||
| Morning by James Beattie (1735–1803) | ||
| Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) | ||
| The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) | ||
| A Midsummer’s Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur (1813–1868) | ||
| Noontide by John Leyden (1775–1811) | ||
| A Summer Noon by William Howitt (1792–1879) | ||
| “The midges dance aboon the burn” by Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) | ||
| Sunset by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
| “Day is Dying” by George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross) (1819–1880) | ||
| The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) | ||
| Evening by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) | ||
| A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) | ||
| To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Evening in Paradise by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Evening by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Moonlight on the Prairie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| To Delia by Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) | ||
| The Camp at Night by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) | ||
| To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Night by Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841) | ||
| Night by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| “In the wide awe and wisdom of the night” by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| III. The Seasons | ||
| A Hymn by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
| March by William Morris (1834–1896) | ||
| “When the hounds of spring” by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| March by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| “Spring, the sweet spring” by Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) | ||
| Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) | ||
| Spring by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) | ||
| Summer Longings by Denis Florence Mac Carthy (1817–1882) | ||
| “Sweetly breathing, vernal air” by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) | ||
| Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| May Morning by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) | ||
| Song on May Morning by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) | ||
| Spring by Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) | ||
| “Die down, O dismal day” by David Gray (1838–1861) | ||
| Morning in May by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) | ||
| Cuckoo Song—Anonymous | ||
| Spring by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| The Plough by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (1802–1884) | ||
| “They come! the merry summer months” by William Motherwell (1797–1835) | ||
| Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley (1795–1846) | ||
| A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) | ||
| June by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume (1560?–1609) | ||
| “Knee-deep in June” by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | ||
| Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) | ||
| Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett (1820–1895) | ||
| Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner | ||
| Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) | ||
| Rain by Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860) | ||
| The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies (1570–1626) | ||
| Wicklow Winds by George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845–1906) | ||
| Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| The Cloud Chorus by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) | ||
| The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Summer Moods by John Clare (1793–1864) | ||
| In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639) | ||
| The Angler’s Wish by Izaak Walton (1593–1683) | ||
| The Angler by John Chalkhill (fl. 1600?) | ||
| Swimming by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) | ||
| The Solitary Woodsman by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| September by George Arnold (1834–1865) | ||
| The Latter Rain by Jones Very (1813–1880) | ||
| To Autumn by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| Harvest Song by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776) | ||
| Life in the Autumn Woods by Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850) | ||
| Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Hunter’s Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| The Hunted Squirrel by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) | ||
| “A hunting we will go” by Henry Fielding (1707–1754) | ||
| The Stag Hunt by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Stag Hunt by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
| The Old Squire by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) | ||
| Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb (1845–1909) | ||
| No! by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
| “When the frost is on the punkin” by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | ||
| Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| “When icicles hang by the wall” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Winter by Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) | ||
| Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) | ||
| Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| December by Joel Benton (1832–1911) | ||
| Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) | ||
| The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857–1940) | ||
| The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| “The Snowing of the Pines” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) | ||
| A Snow-Storm by Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860) | ||
| Winter by John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) | ||
| Winter Scenes by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
| Winter Song by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776) | ||
| Winter Morning by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
| Sleigh Song by G. W. Pettee | ||
| Our Skater Belle—Anonymous | ||
| “O winter! wilt thou never, never go?” by David Gray (1838–1861) | ||
| A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) | ||
| IV. Inland Waters: Highlands | ||
| The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) | ||
| Song of the Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) | ||
| A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill (1843–1915) | ||
| Song of the River by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) | ||
| Afton Water by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| The Snows by Charles Sangster (1822–1893) | ||
| My River by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) | ||
| On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) | ||
| Oxus by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) | ||
| To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) | ||
| The Bugle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) | ||
| Calm on Lake Leman by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster (b. 1856) | ||
| Storm in the Alps by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Dover Cliff by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Choral Song by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) | ||
| An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) | ||
| “Mont Blanc yet gleams on high” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| V. Trees: Flowers: Plants | ||
| The Primeval Forest by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Wind and the Pine-Tree by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) | ||
| The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872) | ||
| The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey (1774–1843) | ||
| A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) | ||
| The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) | ||
| The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) | ||
| The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts Boyle (1812–1869) | ||
| Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt (1799–1888) | ||
| Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith (1779–1849) | ||
| The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) | ||
| To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| Daffodils by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) | ||
| The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||
| The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| Early June by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| To Violets by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) | ||
| The Wreath by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) | ||
| The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) | ||
| The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) | ||
| The Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald Geoghegan (1810–1889) | ||
| The Maize by William Whiteman Fosdick (1825–1862) | ||
| The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) | ||
| The Daisy by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) | ||
| To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| To Blossoms by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) | ||
| The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb (1845–1909) | ||
| Copa de Oro by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) | ||
| The Moss Rose by Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (1767–1845) | ||
| Flowers by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) | ||
| “’T is the last rose of summer” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| The Sea-Poppy by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) | ||
| Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) | ||
| VI. Animate Nature | ||
| The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | ||
| Birds by James Montgomery (1771–1854) | ||
| To the Cuckoo by John Logan (1748–1788) | ||
| To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| “Hark, hark! the lark” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (1828–1909) | ||
| To the Skylark by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| The Skylark by James Hogg (1770–1835) | ||
| The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) | ||
| The Sandpiper by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) | ||
| To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| To the Nightingale by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| The Nightingale’s Song by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) | ||
| Philomena by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| Unmusical Birds by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
| Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| The O’Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg (1805–1884) | ||
| To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs (1837–1921) | ||
| The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) | ||
| The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927) | ||
| The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) | ||
| The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) | ||
| The English Robin by Harrison Weir (1824–1906) | ||
| Asian Birds by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) | ||
| The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton (1832–1911) | ||
| The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague (1791–1875) | ||
| The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt (1792–1879) | ||
| The Flight of the Geese by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| Lines to the Stormy Petrel—Anonymous | ||
| Ode to Mother Carey’s Chicken by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) | ||
| The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) | ||
| A Soliloquy by Walter Harte (1709–1774) | ||
| To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| The Fly by William Oldys (1696–1761) | ||
| To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) | ||
| A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) | ||
| To a Louse by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| To a Mouse by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) | ||
| Remonstrance with the Snails—Anonymous | ||
| The Tiger by William Blake (1757–1827) | ||
| The Lion’s Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) | ||
| Fodder-Time by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) | ||
| The Ox by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) | ||
| Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) | ||
| Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer (1770–1834) | ||
| To a Dog’s Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) | ||
| Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) | ||
| The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| The Chariot of Cuchullin—Anonymous | ||
| Chiquita by Bret Harte (1836–1902) | ||
| VII. The Sea | ||
| The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| The Sea by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Sea by Bernard Barton (1784–1849) | ||
| The Disappointed Lover by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| Ocean by Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827) | ||
| The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) | ||
| The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) | ||
| Flotsam and Jetsam—Anonymous | ||
| A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) | ||
| Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner (1822–1847) | ||
| Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) | ||
| The Coral Reef by James Montgomery (1771–1854) | ||
| The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| “A wet sheet and a flowing sea” by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) | ||
| Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) | ||
| My Brigantine by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) | ||
| The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) | ||
| The Minute-Gun by R. S. Sharpe (1759–1835) | ||
| All ’s Well by Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841) | ||
| The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) | ||
| Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) | ||
| “Ye Mariners of England” by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| “Our boat to the waves” by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) | ||
| “A life on the ocean wave” by Epes Sargent (1813–1880) | ||
| To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) | ||
| Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby (1819–1852) | ||
| Tacking Ship Off-Shore by Walter Mitchell (b. c. 1825) | ||
| The Storm by George Alexander Stevens (1710–1784) | ||
| The Wreck by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The Shipwreck by William Falconer (1732–1769) | ||
| The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) | ||
| The Polar Quest by Richard Burton (1861–1940) | ||
| The Shore by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) | ||
| The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) | ||
| Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) | ||
| The Sea Shell by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| The Shell by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Among the Rocks by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey (1774–1843) | ||
| “How ’s my boy?” by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) | ||
| The Sailor’s Consolation by William Pitt (d. 1840) | ||
| Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) | ||
| The Mariner’s Dream by William Dimond (fl. 1800–1830) | ||
| The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||