The World's Best Poetry, Volume 03: Sorrow and Consolation
Chapter 21
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