World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)

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In Category - Anthologies, Elegies & Odes

Authors: Various In Year : 1904

Book Language: English

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What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne
To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies
To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard
To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton
O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore
Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
Napoleon by Victor Hugo
Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne
George Washington by Anonymous
Washington by James Russell Lowell
Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell
Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps
Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder
The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell
Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell
To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil
George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse
Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew Roydon
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland
Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick
On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson
Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson
An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton
Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge
Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood
Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden
To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth
Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Wordsworth
The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron
Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp
Memorabilia by Robert Browning
Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok
Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wordsworth
To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons
Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott
Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier
To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats
On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold
From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable
Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte
Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne
To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson
Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor
The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field
Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier
Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner
On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler
Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)
Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell
Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman
Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell Lowell
Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson
House by Robert Browning
Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor
Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by Anonymous
The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns
Chopin by Emma Lazarus
The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier
Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter