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World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)

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The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a trove of poetry focusing on youth and young love; the home and domestic life; and the highs and lows of friendship. - Summary by Tomas Peter

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  • 01
    The Days Gone By by James Whitcomb Riley
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  • 02
    Seven Times Two: Romance by Jean Ingelow
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  • 03
    A Farewell by Charles Kingsley
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  • 04
    Riding Down by Nora Perry
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  • 05
    A Girl of Pompeii by Edward Sandford Martin
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    In the Season by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • 07
    Sweet Stream, That Winds by William Cowper
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  • 08
    To My Grandmother by Frederick Locker-Lampson
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  • 09
    The School Girl by William Henry Venable
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    Maidenhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    To a Highland Girl by William Wordsworth
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  • 12
    Ruth by Thomas Hood
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    The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan by Samuel Ferguson
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    Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English
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    Honey Dripping from the Comb by James Whitcomb Riley
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    Lying in the Grass by Edmund Gosse
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    My Mother's Bible by George Pope Morris
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    To the Virgins by Robert Herrick
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  • 19
    Lauriger Horatius by Anonymous
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  • 20
    The 'Old, Old Song' by Charles Kingsley
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    Gaudeamus Igitur by Anonymous
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    To Thaliarchus by Horace
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  • 23
    A Knot of Blue (For the Boys of Yale) by Samuel Minturn Peck
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    Dollie by Samuel Minturn Peck
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    Beware by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
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    Peg of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    The Girl of All Periods by Coventry Patmore
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  • 28
    On a Distant Prospect of Eton College by Thomas Gray
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  • 29
    Spring Song by Bliss Carman
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  • 30
    Youth and Love: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
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  • 31
    The Joys of the Road by Bliss Carman
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  • 32
    Hope and Fear by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    The Heritage by James Russell Lowell
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    To Youth by Walter Savage Landor
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    My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Youth: From 'Youth and Age' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    The Flight of Youth by Richard Henry Stoddard
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    Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope
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    Home by Leonidas
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    The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    The Happiest Heart by John Vance Cheney
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    Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton
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    The Homes of England by Felicia Hemans
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    The Auld House by Lady Nairne
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    The House Beautiful by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • 46
    If We Knew; or, Blessings of To-day by May Riley Smith
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    The Soldier's Dream by Thomas Campbell
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    The Happy Mother by Alexander Laing
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    Tired Mothers by May Riley Smith
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  • 50
    The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats
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  • 51
    Rock Me to Sleep by Elizabeth Akers
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  • 52
    The Children by Charles M. Dickinson
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    Not One to Spare by Anonymous
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  • 54
    Seven Times Six: Giving in Marriage by Jean Ingelow
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    I Knew by the Smoke That So Gracefully Curled by Thomas Moore
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    The Ingle-Side by Hew Ainslee
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    By the Fireside by Lucy Larcom
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    My Ain Fireside by Elizabeth Hamilton
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  • 59
    A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell
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    The Light'ood Fire by John Henry Boner
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    The Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns
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    A New England Home in Winter: From 'Snow-Bound' by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Heart-Rest: From 'Philip van Artevelde' by Sir Henry Taylor
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    The Means to Attain Happy Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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    Homeward Bound by Catullus
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  • 66
    The Hudson by George Sidney Hellman
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    The Wanderer's Home: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith
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    A Picture by Charles Gamage Eastman
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    In the Cellar: From 'Bitter Sweet' by Josiah Gilbert Holland
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    Two Pictures by Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas)
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    A Shepherd's Life: From 'Third Part of Henry VI,' Act. II Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare
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    The Country Life by Richard Henry Stoddard
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    The Swiss Peasant: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith
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    When the Cows Come Home by Agnes E. Mitchell
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    Home Song by Duncan Campbell Scott
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    Labor Song: From 'The Bell-Founder' by Denis Florence MacCarthy
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    The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Christmas by George Wither
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    The Auld Folks by Andrew Park
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  • 80
    A Petition to Time by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
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    Home, Sweet Home: From 'Clari, the Maid of Milan' by John Howard Payne
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    Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Friendship: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night II. by Dr. Edward Young
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    Bill and Joe: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    Early Friendship by Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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    Young Friends: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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    Friendship: From 'Hamlet,' Act. III Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
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  • 88
    The Memory of the Heart by Daniel Webster
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    A Wayfaring Song by Henry van Dyke
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    Parted Friends by James Montgomery
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    When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought: Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare
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    Jaffar by Leigh Hunt
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    The Vale of Avoca by Thomas Moore
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    We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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    Too Late I Stayed by William Robert Spencer
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    We Are Brethren A' by Robert Nicoll
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    Wife, Children, and Friends by William Robert Spencer
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    Benedicite by John Greenleaf Whittier
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    When in Disgrace: Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare
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    Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt
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    Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments: Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare
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  • 102
    The Dead Friend: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns
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    And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore
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    We Love but Few by Anonymous
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  • 106
    The Garret by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    A Temple to Friendship by Thomas Moore
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    Platonic by William B. Terrett
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    Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge de Vere (Madeline Bridges)
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    The Boys: From 'Poems of the Class of Twenty-Nine' (Harvard) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    The Cane-Bottomed Chair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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    The Welcome by Faríd-Uddín Attar
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    Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius: From 'Julius Caesar,' Act. IV Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare
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    Sparkling and Bright by Charles Fenno Hoffman
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    Wreathe the Bowl by Thomas Moore
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  • 116
    A Winter Wish by Robert Hinckley Messinger
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  • 117
    The Mahogany-Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray
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  • 118
    The Ballad of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray
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  • 119
    The Dead Poet-Friend by Callimachus
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  • 120
    Mors et Vita by Samuel Waddington
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  • 121
    To Seek a Friend: Extracts from 'Friendship' by William Cowper
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    Advice by William Dunbar
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  • 123
    The Friend: From 'On Friendship' by Nicholas Grimoald
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  • 124
    Take the World as It Is by Charles Swain
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  • 125
    Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
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