World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

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In Category - Anthologies, Elegies & Odes, Narratives

Authors: Various In Year : 1904

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Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton
Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick
The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)
City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham
The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail
Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North)
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell
The Nile by Leigh Hunt
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron
The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse
Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Venice by John Addington Symonds
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough
Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read
England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith
That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne
Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott
An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
London by John Davidson
The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The Settler by Alfred B. Street
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus')
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein
The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt
The Glove by Robert Browning
Louis XV by John Sterling
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer
Lord Lovel by Anonymous
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter