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