World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

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The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page. Summary by Tomas Peter
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  • 01
    An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott
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  • 02
    The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore
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    Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)
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    The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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    Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare
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    Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
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  • 09
    The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns
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  • 10
    Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney
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    Agatha by Alfred Austin
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    The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson
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    Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Song by Sir Walter Scott
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    Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard
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    To a Portrait by Arthur Symons
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    Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine
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    Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle
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    Waly, Waly by Anonymous
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    Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous
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    My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell
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    Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman
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    A Woman's Love by John Hay
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    The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers
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    Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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    The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham
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    Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell
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    Divided by Jean Ingelow
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    To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot
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  • 31
    The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)
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    Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
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    Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton
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    Time's Revenge by Agathias
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    The Dream by Lord Byron
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    Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore
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    Blighted Love by Luís de Camões
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    The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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    The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)
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    Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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    Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge
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    The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford
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    Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux
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    Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler
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    Parting by Coventry Patmore
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    To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
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    Good-bye by Anonymous
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    Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns
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    O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
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    Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron
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  • 51
    Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott
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    Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay
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    The Parting Lovers by Anonymous
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    Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay
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    As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
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    Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough
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    Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron
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    Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron
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    Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton
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    Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare
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    Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
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    We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
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    Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell
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    Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell
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    Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore
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  • 66
    Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
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    Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
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    To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace
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    To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    I Love My Jean by Robert Burns
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    Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell
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    O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns
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    The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir
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    Absence by Frances Anne Kemble
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    Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel
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    Daisy by Francis Thompson
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    Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)
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    What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire
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    Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    Absence by Anonymous
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    Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)
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    "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
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    Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan
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    The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous
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    My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster
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    Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster
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    The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper
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    Man by Walter Savage Landor
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    The World by Francis, Lord Bacon
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    Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele
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    The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles
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    Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
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    The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus
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    Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton
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    Lines by Chidiock Tichborne
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    Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher
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    The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe
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    Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
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    Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter
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    Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron
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    A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
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    The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood
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    Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton
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    Old by Ralph Hoyt
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    The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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    The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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    The Beggar by Thomas Moss
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    A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley
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    "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous
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    Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards
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    The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
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    The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel
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    Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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    Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson
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    London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
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    The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
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    Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous
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    The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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    Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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