Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume VI. Fancy
| Introductory Essay | ||
| The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson (1851–1913) | ||
| Poems of Fancy | ||
| I. The Imagination | ||
| Fantasy by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
| Hallo, my Fancy by William Cleland (1661?–1689) | ||
| Ideality by Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) | ||
| Fancy by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| Imagination by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| II. Fairies: Elves: Sprites | ||
| Queen Mab by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Oberon’s Feast by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) | ||
| Fairy’s Song by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Compliment to Queen Elizabeth by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Fairies’ Lullaby by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Fairies’ Song by Thomas Randolph (1605–1635) | ||
| The Fairies by William Allingham (1824–1889) | ||
| Kilmeny by James Hogg (1770–1835) | ||
| The Fairy Child by John Anster (1793–1867) | ||
| Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887) | ||
| The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) | ||
| “Oh! where do fairies hide their heads?” by Thomas Haynes Bayley (1797–1839) | ||
| Songs of Ariel by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Airy Nothings by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) | ||
| The Djinns by Victor Hugo (1802–1885) | ||
| The Lady lost in the Wood by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| The Nymph of the Severn by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Tam O’ Shanter by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) | ||
| The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) | ||
| The Sirens’ Song by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) | ||
| The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| The Flitting of the Fairies by Jane Barlow (1857–1917) | ||
| III. Mythical: Mystical: Legendary | ||
| A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| A Transformation by Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) | ||
| The Comet by Charles Sangster (1822–1893) | ||
| The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan (1841–1901) | ||
| The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||
| The King’s Highway by Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911) | ||
| Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Una and the Red Crosse Knight by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| Una and the Lion by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| The Bower of Bliss by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| The Cave of Sleep by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| From “The Castle of Indolence” by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
| Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| From “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
| Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
| The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
| Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
| The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) | ||
| The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) | ||
| The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) | ||
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne (1856–1929) | ||
| A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) | ||
| Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1837) | ||
| Sherwood by Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) | ||
| Far-Away by George Sigerson (1836–1925) | ||
| Poems of Sentiment | ||
| I. Time | ||
| Time the Supreme by Edward Young (1681–1765) | ||
| To-morrow by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) | ||
| Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore (1822–1903) | ||
| Procrastination by Edward Young (1681–1765) | ||
| Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911) | ||
| The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon (1431–1463?) | ||
| The Approach of Age by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1833–1920) | ||
| The Death of the old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
| What is the Grass? by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) | ||
| The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch (1840–1922) | ||
| The Making of Man by John White Chadwick (1840–1904) | ||
| The Ascent of Man by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918) | ||
| Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) | ||
| Time: An Enigma by Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) | ||
| II. Life | ||
| This Life by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) | ||
| The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639) | ||
| Retribution by Friedrich von Logau (1604–1655) | ||
| The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618) | ||
| The Generous Air by Palladas (fl. 4th Century A.D.) | ||
| Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson (1572–1637) | ||
| Life by Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847) | ||
| “Where lies the land?” by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) | ||
| Life by George Herbert (1593–1633) | ||
| Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) | ||
| The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) | ||
| History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) | ||
| My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel (1864–1940) | ||
| Address to the Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition by Horace Smith (1779–1849) | ||
| London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848–1929) | ||
| The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| L’ Allegro by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Dining by E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891) | ||
| The Family Skeleton by George Meredith (1828–1909) | ||
| The Epicure by Anacreon (582–485 B.C.) | ||
| The Indian Weed—Anonymous (Seventeenth Century) | ||
| Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine (1685–1752) | ||
| Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) | ||
| Il Penseroso by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) | ||
| The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) | ||
| Fame by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
| Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (1802–1884) | ||
| Enid’s Song by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Fortune by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) | ||
| Opportunity by William Blake (1757–1827) | ||
| Opportunity by John James Ingalls (1833–1900) | ||
| Undeveloped Lives by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) | ||
| Augury by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) | ||
| “Keep sweet and keep movin’” by Robert Jones Burdette (1844–1914) | ||
| A Tear by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) | ||
| The Jester’s Sermon by George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) | ||
| The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) | ||
| At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) | ||
| A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) | ||
| Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) | ||
| Proem by Joaquin Miller (1841–1913) | ||
| A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller (1841–1913) | ||
| Yussouf by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Beauty by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| Beauty Unadorned by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) | ||
| Fortune by Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) | ||
| Greatness by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
| Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) | ||
| The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| Growing Gray by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
| Healthful Old Age by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Quack Medicines by George Crabbe (1754–1832) | ||
| The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale (1741–1821) | ||
| Old Age and Death by Edmund Waller (1606–1687) | ||
| The Ruling Passion by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) | ||
| The Will by John Donne (1572–1631) | ||
| To a Skeleton—Anonymous | ||
| The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar (1460?–1520?) | ||
| III. Memory | ||
| Blest Memory by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) | ||
| Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) | ||
| Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) | ||
| Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) | ||
| A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) | ||
| The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice (1802–1870) | ||
| Roma by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) | ||
| “There is such power” by Arlo Bates (1850–1918) | ||
| Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
| Mignon’s Song by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) | ||
| “Oft in the stilly night” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau (1752–1832) | ||
| “’T is but a little faded flower” by Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827–1899) | ||
| The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) | ||
| Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius of Thessalonica (c. 500–560 A.D.) | ||
| IV. Thought: Poetry: Books | ||
| The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) | ||
| Dream-Life by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) | ||
| “My minde to me a kingdom is” by Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607) | ||
| To One who had scoffed at the Poet’s Poverty by Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.) | ||
| Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux (1509–1556) | ||
| “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| The Sower and his Seed by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903) | ||
| Æsop by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) | ||
| Indirection by Richard Realf (1832–1878) | ||
| Proem by Madison Cawein (1865–1914) | ||
| The Poet of Nature by Philip James Bailey (1816–1902) | ||
| Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller (1841–1913) | ||
| The Poet’s Impulse by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Impression by Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) | ||
| The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) | ||
| On his “Sonnets of the Wingless Hours” by Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) | ||
| The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) (1823–1904) | ||
| Unknown Poets by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
| On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats (1795–1821) | ||
| From “The Odyssey” by Andrew Lang (1844–1912) | ||
| Sonnet: “Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show” by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) | ||
| The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) | ||
| The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) | ||
| An Autograph by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| Art by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) | ||
| Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| The Modern Poet by Alice Meynell (1847–1922) | ||
| The Jester’s Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) | ||
| Verses, why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) | ||
| Sweet Nature’s Voice by Arthur Joseph Munby (1828–1910) | ||
| Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (1802–1884) | ||
| “One day I wrote her name” by Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) | ||
| The Poet’s Death by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) | ||
| The Sharing of the Earth by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) | ||
| The Immortality of Genius by Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.) | ||
| Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) | ||
| Books—Anonymous | ||
| The Scholar by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) | ||
| The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) | ||
| Books by John Higgins | ||
| V. The Arts | ||
| Influence of Music by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Music by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) | ||
| The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) | ||
| A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day, 1687 by John Dryden (1631–1700) | ||
| The Spell by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) | ||
| The Passions by William Collins (1721–1759) | ||
| Invocation by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) | ||
| Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music by John Dryden (1631–1700) | ||
| Beethoven’s Third Symphony by Richard Hovey (1864–1900) | ||
| Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) | ||
| The Artist by Arthur Grissom (1869?–1901) | ||
| A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) | ||
| On a Fan by Austin Dobson (1840–1921) | ||
| VI. Labor and Rest | ||
| Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) | ||
| The Axe by Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887) | ||
| Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850) | ||
| The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869) | ||
| “The Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham (1852–1940) | ||
| “The Man with the Hoe”: a Reply by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) | ||
| Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) | ||
| For a’ That and a’ That by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay (1814–1889) | ||
| The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) | ||
| The Happy Heart by Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) | ||
| The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) | ||
| Labor Done by Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) | ||
| Haste not! Rest not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) | ||
| Work by Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) | ||
| A Wish by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) | ||
| Contentment by Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618) | ||
| Content by Robert Greene (1558–1592) | ||
| Song: “He that is down need fear no fall” by John Bunyan (1628–1688) | ||
| In Prison by Sir Roger L’Estrange (1616–1704) | ||
| Cleon and I by Charles Mackay (1814–1889) | ||
| The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) | ||
| Contentment by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887) | ||
| A Woman’s Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend (1836–1901) | ||
| The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) | ||
| Rest by Margaret L. Woods (1856–1945) | ||
| Invocation to Sleep by John Fletcher (1579–1625) | ||
| Sleep by John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819) | ||
| Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) | ||
| Sleep by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) | ||
| Watching by Emily Chubbuck Judson (Fanny Forrester) (1817–1854) | ||
| The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1849–1937) | ||
| The Two Oceans by John Sterling (1806–1844) | ||
| Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) | ||
| The Fallen by John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) | ||