World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)

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Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne
Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge
A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter
The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice
Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci
There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates
Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper
Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore
On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau
'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth
The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly
Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius
The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth
Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch
Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón
My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer
To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial
Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux
A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats
The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky
Æsop by Andrew Lang
Indirection by Richard Realf
Proem by Madison Cawein
The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller
The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron
Impression by Edmund Gosse
The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave
On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)
Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth
The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang
Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers
The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder
An Autograph by James Russell Lowell
Art by Sir Gilbert Parker
Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell
The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson
Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor
Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby
Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne
One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser
The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr
The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius
Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson
Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous
The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard
Books by John Higgins
Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder
A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden
The Spell by Paul Verlaine
The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins
Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden
Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey
Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Artist by Arthur Grissom
A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton
On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson
Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman
The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford
Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones
'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham
'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney
Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott
For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns
The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay
The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates
The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker
The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine
Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Work by Henry van Dyke
A Wish by Abraham Cowley
Contentment by Joshua Sylvester
Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene
Song by John Bunyan
In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange
Cleon and I by Charles Mackay
The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams
Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston
A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend
The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold
Rest by Margaret L. Woods
Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher
Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth
Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson
The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton
The Two Oceans by John Sterling
Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne
The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney

The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter