The World's Best Poetry, Volume 03: Sorrow and Consolation

Chapter 21

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BENJAMIN, PARK. Old Sexton, The 282

BENNETT, LUCY A. "Asleep! asleep!" 396

BÉRANGER, PIERRE-JEAN DE. Old Vagabond, The (_Translation_) 188

BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON. "It is not death to die" 455

BJÖRNSON, BJÖRSTJERNE. Princess, The (_Dole's Translation_) 9

BLACKIE, JOHN STUART. Emigrant Lassie, The 280

BLAMIRE, SUSANNA. "What ails this heart o' mine" 139

BLAND, ROBERT. Time's Revenge (_Greek of Agathias_) 72

BLOOD, HENRY AMES. Song of Savoyards 248

BODENSTEDT, FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON. Unchanging (_Translation_) 242

BONAR, HORATIUS. "Beyond the smiling and the weeping"

BRENAN, JOSEPH. "Come to me, dearest" 144

BRIDGES, ROBERT (_Droch_). Unillumined Verge, The 308

BONAR, HORATIUS. "Beyond the smiling and the weeping" 378

BROOKS, MARIA GOWEN (_Maria del Occidente_). Song of Egla 138

BROWN, JOSEPH BROWNLEE. Thalatta! Thalatta! 388

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Comfort 433 De Profundis 421 Hopeless Grief 217 Mother and Poet 323 Sleep, The 389 Tears 429 Wail of Prometheus Bound, The (_Greek of Æschylus_) 156

BROWNING, ROBERT. Evelyn Hope 310 Prospice 391

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Blessed are They that Mourn 420 Conqueror's Grave, The 442 Thanatopsis 264

BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES. "When my ship comes in" 245

BURNS, ROBERT. "Ae fond kiss, and then we sever" 98 Banks o' Doon, The 12 Highland Mary 329 "I love my Jean" 126 Mary in Heaven, To 339 "O my Luve's like a red, red rose" 99 "O, saw ye bonnie Leslie" 130

BURROUGHS, JOHN. Waiting 238

BYRON, GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD. "Adieu, adieu, my native shore" 108 Dream, The 73 Farewell to his Wife 109 Latest Verses 169 "Maid of Athens, ere we part" 100 Picture of Death, A (The Giaour) 261

CAMOËNS, LUIS DE. Blighted Love (_Strongford's Translation_) 81

CARLETON, WILL. "Over the hill to the poor-house" 175

CARY, HENRY FRANCIS. "The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (_French of Duke of Orleans_) 356

CHADWICK, JOHN WHITE. Two Waitings, The 409

CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY. Sleepy Hollow 277

CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE. Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur (_Translation_) 305

CHATTERTON, THOMAS. Minstrel's Song 340

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH. Despondency Rebuked 235 Qua Cursum Ventus 107

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Good, Great Man, The 244

COSTELLO, LOUISE STUART. On the Death of Francis I. (_French of Marguerite_) 338 Sonnet (_French of Labé) 237 To Diane de Poitiers (_French of Marat_) 69

COWPER, WILLIAM. Present Good, The (_The Task_) 150

CRABBE, GEORGE. Approach of Age, The (_Tales of the Hall_) 163

CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK. Now and Afterwards 268 Only a Woman 86 Too Late 335

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE. Compensation 229

CRAWFORD, JULIA (or LOUISA MACARTNEY). Kathleen Mavourneen 112 "We parted in silence" 113

DELAND, MARGARETTA WADE. Love and Death 394

DE VERE, AUBREY THOMAS. "Sad is our youth, for it is ever going" 225

DE VERE, MARY AINGE (_Madeline Bridges_). Spinner, The 70

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON. Home, Wounded 58

DOBSON, AUSTIN. Sun-Dial, The 15

DODGE, MARY ELIZABETH MAPES. Two Mysteries, The (_Along the Way_) 262

DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL. Princess, The (_Norwegian of Bjornson_) 9

DORR, JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY. Hush! (_After glow_) 400

DRAYTON, MICHAEL. "Come, let us kisse and parte" 111

DUFFERIN, HELEN BELINDA SHERIDAN, LADY (_afterwards_ LADY GIFFORD). Lament of the Irish Emigrant 343

EASTMAN, ELAINE GOODALE. Ashes of Roses 51

EDWARDS, AMELIA BLANDFORD. "Give me three grains of corn, mother" 197

FIELD, EUGENE. Jim's Kids 290

FITZGERALD, EDWARD. Anne Allen, On 303

FLEMING, PAUL. Myself, To (_Winkworth's Translation_) 218

FLETCHER, JOHN. "Hence, all ye vain delights" 160 "Take, O, take those lips away" (_Bloody Brother_) 71

FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS. My Old Kentucky Home 147 Old Folks at Home 148

GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING. Aunt Phillis's Guest 239

GAY, JOHN. Black-Eyed Susan 102

GLADDEN, WASHINGTON. Awakening 375

GLUCK, ---- To Death (_Translation_) 395

GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard 270

HARDINGE, WILLIAM M. Grave of Sophocles (_Greek of Simmias_) 200

HAWTREY, E.C. Hector to his Wife (_Greek of Homer_) 122

HAY, JOHN. Woman's Love, A 52

HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON. In Harbor 398

HEBER, REGINALD. "Thou art gone to the grave" 445

HEINE, HEINRICH. Palm and the Pine, The (_Houghton's Translation_) 40

HEMANS. FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE. Hour of Death, The 259

HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. Invictus 221

HERBERT, GEORGE. Flower, The 219 Virtue Immortal 254

HOBART, MRS. CHARLES. Changed Cross, The 231

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Last Leaf, The 185 Voiceless, The 172

HOMER. Hector to his Wife (_Hawtrey's Translation_) 122 Parting of Hector and Andromache (_Pope's Translation_) 118

HOOD, THOMAS. Bridge of Sighs, The 208 Death-Bed, The 300 "Farewell, Life" 384 Song of the Shirt, The 199 "What can an old man do but die" 174

HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD. London Churches 207 Palm and the Pine, The (_German of Heine_) 40

HOWLAND, MARY WOOLSEY. Rest 397

HOYT, RALPH. Old 180

HUDSON, MARY CLEMMER AMES. Something Beyond 234

INGELOW, JEAN. Divided 64

JACKSON, HELEN FISKE HUNT (_H.H._). Habeas Corpus 382

JACKSON, HENRY R. My Wife and Child 226

JENKS, EDWARD A. Going and Coming 458

KEATS, JOHN. Nightingale, Ode to a 166

KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE. Absence 133 Faith 95

KENNEDY, CRAMMOND. Greenwood Cemetery 279

KEPPEL, LADY CAROLINE. Robin Adair 134

KING, HENRY. Sic Vita 253

KINGSLEY, CHARLES. Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter, A 191

KNOX, WILLIAM. Mortality 256

LABE, LOUISE. Sonnet (_Costello's Translation_) 237

LAMB, CHARLES. Old Familiar Faces, The 143

LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (_later_ MRS. MACLEAN). Female Convict, The 215

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE. Farewell 394 Man 151

LANG, ANDREW. Lament for Heliodore (_Greek of Meleager_) 337

LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD. Song (_Robert Louis Stevenson an Elegy and other Poems_) 417 What of the Darkness (_English_ Poems) 360

LE ROUX, GUIRAUD. Fidelity in Doubt (_Preston's Translation_) 95

LINDSAY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH FITZROY, LADY. Sonnet 304

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK. Widow's Mite, The 287

LOGAN, JOHN. "Thy braes were bonny" 314

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Death of Minnehaha, The (Song of Hiawatha) 319 Footsteps of Angels 438 God's Acre 276 Rainy Day, The 228 Reaper and the Flowers, The 417 Resignation 430

LOVELACE, COLONEL RICHARD. Lucasta, To 123 Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To 97

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL. Auf Wiedersehen 114 First Snow-Fall, The 283 Palinode 115

LOWELL, MARIA WHITE. Morning-Glory, The 285

LYTLE, WILLIAM HAINES. Antony and Cleopatra 380

LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER, EARL OF (_Owen Meredith_). Portrait, The 82

MCCLEERY, J.L. "There is no death" 456

MACMANUS, ANNA JOHNSTON (MRS. SEUMAS) (_Ethna Carbery_). Thinkin' Long 141

MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. On the Death of Francis I. (_Costello's Translation_) 338

MAROT, CLEMENT. To Diane de Poitiers (_Costello's Translation_) 69

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE. After Summer 336

MELEAGER. Lament for Heliodore (_Lang's Translation_) 337

MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS. Cumnor Hall 41

MILTON, JOHN. Lycidas 446 Samson on his Blindness (_Samson Agonistes_) 158 Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner 220

MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR. Quaker Graveyard, The 278

MOIR, DAVID MACBETH. Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town, The 131

MOORE, THOMAS. "Alas, how light a cause" (_The Light of the Harem_) 80 "As slow our ship" 106 "Farewell!--but whenever" 116 "Farewell to thee, Araby's daughter" (_Fire Worshippers_) 316 Linda to Hafed (_Fire Worshippers_) 6

MOSS, THOMAS. Beggar, The 189

MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM. Jeanie Morrison 127 "My heid is like to rend, Willie" 49

MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. "I would not live alway" 392

MUNBY, ARTHUR JOSEPH. Apres 355

NAIRNE, CAROLINA OLIPHANT, LADY. Land o' the Leal, The 379

NEELE, HENRY. "Moan, moan, ye dying gales" 152

NOEL, THOMAS. Pauper's Drive, The 202

NORTON, CAROLINE E.S. SHERIDAN (LADY STIRLING MAXWELL). King of Denmark's Ride, The 340 "Love not" 8

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH. Never Despair 246

ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF. "The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (_Cary's Trans._) 356

O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. "Has summer come without the rose?" 54

PALMER, JOHN WILLIAMSON. For Charlie's Sake 411

PATMORE, COVENTRY [KEARSEY DEIGHTON]. Parting 96

PIATT, SARAH MORGAN BRYAN. Term of Death, The 261

PIERPONT, JOHN. My Child 415

POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Annabel Lee 312 For Annie 385

POLLEN, JOHN. Last Leaf, The (_Russian of Poushkin_) 187

POPE, ALEXANDER. Parting of Hector and Andromache (_Greek of Homer_) 118

POUSHKIN, ALEKSANDER SERGYEVICH. Last Leaf, The (_Pollen's Translation_) 187

PRESTON, ANNIE A. "The green grass under the snow" 442

PRESTON, HARRIET WATERS. Fidelity in Doubt (_French of Le Roux_) 95

PRIEST, NANCY AMELIA WOODBURY. Over the River 406

PRINGLE, THOMAS. Afar in the Desert 222

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE. Doubting Heart, A 171

PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (_Barry Cornwall_). Life 251 "Softly woo away her breath" 318

QUARLES, FRANCIS. Vanity of the World, The 153

RAMSAY, ALLAN. Lochaber no More 105

RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHINGTON. "Blessed are They" 425 Christus Consolator 432

RITTER, MARY LOUISE. Perished 169

ROGERS, ROBERT CAMERON. Shadow Rose, The 53

ROSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. Nevermore, The 82

SANGSTER, MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON. "Are the children at home?" 288

SCOTT, FREDERICK GEORGE. Van Elsen 361

SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Coronach (_Lady of the Lake_) 309 Song 31 Song of the Young Highlander 101

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" (_As You Like It_) 155 Course of True Love, The (_Midsummer Night's Dream_) 3 Death of Death 460 Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, The (_Henry VIII._) 161 "Farewell! thou art too dear" 112 "Fear no more the heat o' the sun" (_Gymbeline_) 328 Grief (_Hamlet_) 348 Love's Memory (_All's Well that ends Well_) 140 Soliloquy on Death (_Hamlet_) 252 "Take, O, take those lips away" 71 Unrequited Love (_Twelfth Night_) 9

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Lament, A 173 "The sun is warm, the sky is clear" 164

SHIRLEY, JAMES. Death the Leveler 253

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP. "With how sad steps" (_Astrophel and Stella_) 13

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND. Morning Thought, A 267

SILLERY, CHARLES DOYNE. "She died in beauty" 319

SIMMIAS. Grave of Sophocles, The (_Hardinge's Translation_) 269

SMITH, BELLE E. "If I should die to-night" 374

SOUTHWELL, ROBERT. "Times go by turns" 228

SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH PRESCOTT. Nun and Harp, The 93

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR. In Memoriam F.A.S. 428

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Lines to the Memory of "Annie" 426 "Only a year" 418

STRANGFORD, LORD. Blighted Love (_Portuguese of Camoens_) 81

STURM. JULIUS. I Hold Still (_Translation_) 243

SYMONS, ARTHUR. Portrait, To a 34

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD. "Break, break, break" 358 "Home they brought her warrior dead" (_Princess_) 345 Lady Clare Vere de Vere 4 Locksley Hall 17 May Queen, The 292 "Oh that 'twere possible" (_Maud_) 331 Selections from "In Memoriam" 340 "Tears, idle tears" 142

THOMPSON, FRANCIS. Daisy 130

TICHEBORNE, CHEDIOCK. Lines written in the Tower 159

TIMROD, HENRY. At Magnolia Cemetery 279

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND. Dorothy in the Garret 89

UHLAND, LUDWIG. Passage, The (_Austin's Translation_) 342

ULRICH, ANTON, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. God's Sure Help in Sorrow (_Winkworth's Translation_) 236

VAUGHAN, HENRY. "Happy are the dead" 439 "They are all gone" 403

WASTELL, SIMON. Man's Mortality 255

WATSON, JOHN WHITTAKER. Beautiful Snow 205

WHITMAN, WALT. "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed" 362

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Absent Sailor, To her (_The Tent on the Beach_) 124 Angel of Patience, The 402 Maud Muller 35

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER. Unseen Spirits 204

WINKWORTH, CATHARINE. God's Sure Help in Sorrow (_German of Ulrich_) 236 Myself, To (_German of Flemming_) 218

ZANGWILL, ISRAEL. Blind 461