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

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

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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
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  • 01
    Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers
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    Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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    Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne
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    Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge
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    A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter
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    The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice
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    Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci
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  • 08
    There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates
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  • 09
    Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper
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    Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore
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    On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau
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    'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth
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    The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly
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    Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius
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    The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth
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    Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch
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    Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón
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    My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer
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    To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial
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    Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux
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  • 22
    A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats
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    The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky
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    Æsop by Andrew Lang
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    Indirection by Richard Realf
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    Proem by Madison Cawein
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    The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey
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    Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller
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    The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron
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    Impression by Edmund Gosse
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    The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave
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    On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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    The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)
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    Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth
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    The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson
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    On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
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    The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang
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    Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
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    The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers
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    The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder
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    An Autograph by James Russell Lowell
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    Art by Sir Gilbert Parker
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    Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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  • 44
    The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell
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    The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson
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    Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor
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    Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby
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    Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne
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    One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser
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    The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
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    Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr
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    The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
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    The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius
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    Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson
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    Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous
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    The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor
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    The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard
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    Books by John Higgins
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    Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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    The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder
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    A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden
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    The Spell by Paul Verlaine
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    The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins
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    Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley
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    Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden
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    Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey
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    Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman
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    On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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    The Artist by Arthur Grissom
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    A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton
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    On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson
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    Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman
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    The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford
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    Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood
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    The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones
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    'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham
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    'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney
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    Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott
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    For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns
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    The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay
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    The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates
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    The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker
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    The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine
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    Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller
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    Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Work by Henry van Dyke
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    A Wish by Abraham Cowley
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    Contentment by Joshua Sylvester
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    Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene
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    Song by John Bunyan
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    In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange
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    Cleon and I by Charles Mackay
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    The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams
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    Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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    To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston
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    A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend
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    The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold
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    Rest by Margaret L. Woods
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  • 103
    Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher
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    Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)
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    Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney
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    Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
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    Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth
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    Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson
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    The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton
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    The Two Oceans by John Sterling
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    Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne
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  • 112
    The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney
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