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) | ||