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

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

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