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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

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This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

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  • 01
    To Myself by Paul Fleming
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  • 02
    The Flower by George Herbert
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  • 03
    Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton
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    Invictus by William Ernest Henley
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    Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle
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    Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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    My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson
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    The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell
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    Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch
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    The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart
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    Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson
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    Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough
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    God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick
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    Sonnet by Louise Labé
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    Waiting by John Burroughs
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    Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett
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    Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine
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    Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
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    I Hold Still by Julius Sturm
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    The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette
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    Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien
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    The Saddest Fate by Anonymous
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    The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood
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    Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
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    Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    Sic Vita by Henry King
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    Death the Leveller by James Shirley
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    Virtue Immortal by George Herbert
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    Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell
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    Mortality by William Knox
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    The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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    The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
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    A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron
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    The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge
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    Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
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    A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill
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    Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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    The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias
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    Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous
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    On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont
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    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
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    God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing
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    The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell
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    Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy
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    The Dead by Mathilde Blind
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    On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers
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    The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie
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    The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin
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    The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell
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    The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell
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    The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson
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    Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster
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    Jim's Kids by Eugene Field
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    The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald
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    Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay
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    Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
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    The Death-bed by Thomas Hood
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    A Death-bed by James Aldrich
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    Requiescat by Matthew Arnold
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    'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)
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    Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott
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    Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning
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    Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
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    Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan
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    Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore
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    Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
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    She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery
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    The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    Highland Mary by Robert Burns
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    Fair Helen by Anonymous
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    Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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    After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston
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    Lament for Heliodore by Meleager
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    On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
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    To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns
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    Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton
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    The Passage by Ludwig Uhland
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    Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin
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    Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton
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    Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Après by Arthur Joseph Munby
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    The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans
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    Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Lavender by Anonymous
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    What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne
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    Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott
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    When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman
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    If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith
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    Awakening by Washington Gladden
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    Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar
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    The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne
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    Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle
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    Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson
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    Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood
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    For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe
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    Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown
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    The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    Prospice by Robert Browning
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    I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg
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    Farewell by Walter Savage Landor
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    Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland
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    To Death by Gluck
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    Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett
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    Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland
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    In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne
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    Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr
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    Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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    The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan
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    The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr
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    Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest
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    Grief for the Dead by Anonymous
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    The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick
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    For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer
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    Watching for Papa by Anonymous
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    My Child by John Pierpont
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    Song by Richard Le Gallienne
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    The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant
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    De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
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    Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
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    In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond
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    Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold
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    Peace by Anonymous
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    Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan
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    The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston
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    The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant
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    Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber
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    Lycidas by John Milton
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    After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold
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    It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune
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    There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery
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    Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks
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    Blind by Israel Zangwill
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    The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare
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