World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 1)

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Authors: Various In Year : 1904

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The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton Gummere
Iphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage Landor
The Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by Euripides
Parrhasius by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Lucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard Payne
The Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Mark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
The Sack of the City by Victor-Marie Hugo
The Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew Arnold
Khamsin by Clinton Scollard
The Diver by Johann C.F. Schiller
God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey
Countess Laura by George Henry Boker
Othello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
The Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fra Giacomo by Robert Buchanan
Ginevra by Samuel Rogers
Bernardo Del Carpio by Felicia Hemans
The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron
Before Sedan by Austin Dobson
Ivàn Ivànovitch by Robert Browning
A Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
The Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
The Twa Corbies by Anonymous
The Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne Davis
The Rose and the Gauntlet by John Sterling
The Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles Southey
High-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean Ingelow
Rizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
In the Engine-Shed by William Wilkins
Revelry of the Dying by Bartholomew Dowling
The Drummer-Boy's Burial by Anonymous
Ramon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret Harte
At the Cedars by Duncan Campbell Scott
The Sands o' Dee by Charles Kingsley
On the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William Cowper
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingsley
Casabianca by Felicia Hemans
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Second Mate by Fitz-James O'Brien
A Sea Story by Emily Henrietta Hickey
Woman by Anonymous
The Women Fo'k by James Hogg
Of a Certaine Man by Sir John Harrington
Women's Chorus by Aristophanes
The Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst Bürger
Sorrows of Werther by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Well of St. Keyne by Robert Southey
The Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Echo and the Lover by Anonymous
Echo by John Godfrey Saxe
'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen Butler
The Sea by Eva L. Ogden
The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey Saxe
On an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-Lampson
How Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous

The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world, including Greece, Rome, the Orient, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, England, America, and the sea. It ends off with a selection of mischievous poems about women and their proclivities. The collection also includes an introductory essay by folklore scholar Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919). - Summary by Tomas Peter