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

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

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