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
Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John MiltonSeven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William ShakespeareCleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareTo Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe ShelleyFreedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben JonsonCousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence StedmanDelight in Disorder by Robert HerrickThe Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander PopeOde on a Grecian Urn by John KeatsLaus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler MoultonOn Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh HuntThose Evening Bells by Thomas MooreThe Bells by Edgar Allan PoeThe Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris BarhamThe Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles SoutheyAn Etruscan Ring by John William MackailLeonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward DowdenThe Hurricane by William Cullen BryantMist by Henry David ThoreauThe Coasters by Thomas Fleming DaySmoke by Henry David ThoreauThe Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North)A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen WhitmanThe Sunset City by Henry Sylvester CornwellThe Nile by Leigh HuntOzymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe ShelleyChristmas in India by Rudyard KiplingThe Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord ByronThe Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas MooreCarillon by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord ByronThe Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert SoutheyThe Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William SharpTo Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y VillegasThe Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord ByronThe Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord ByronA Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher StoweFebruary in Rome by Edmund GosseSaint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord ByronA View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningVenice by John Addington SymondsVenice: From 'Italy' by Samuel RogersThe Gondola by Arthur Hugh CloughVenice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe ShelleyNaples: From 'Italy' by Samuel RogersDrifting by Thomas Buchanan ReadEngland: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver GoldsmithThat England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter ScottO, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances BrowneMelrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter ScottAn Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter ScottThe Castle Ruins by William BarnesThe Deserted Village by Oliver GoldsmithSonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William WordsworthLondon by John DavidsonThe Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William ShenstoneThe Forging of the Anchor by Samuel FergusonNewport-Beach by Henry Theodore TuckermanThe Settler by Alfred B. StreetSong of the Chattahoochee by Sidney LanierWeehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene HalleckMannahatta by Walt WhitmanThe Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean ProctorScythe Song by Andrew LangThe Mowers by Myron B. BentonChâteau Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus')In Mexico by Evaleen SteinThe Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by VirgilHoratius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord MacaulayThor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's EddaFrithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias TegnérThe Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. GreeneThe Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad PfeffelMahmoud by Leigh HuntPrince Adeb by George Henry BokerThe Leper by Nathaniel Parker WillisErminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato TassoAlonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune AytounThe Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric MistralThe Glove and the Lions by Leigh HuntThe Glove by Robert BrowningLouis XV by John SterlingHervé Riel by Robert BrowningNapoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas CampbellHow they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert BrowningMort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord TennysonGodiva by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey ChaucerLord Lovel by AnonymousRobin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by AnonymousThe Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline SoutheyThe Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord TennysonEngland: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William ShakespeareJock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James HoggLord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas CampbellMarmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter ScottFitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter ScottFitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter ScottMuckle-Mou'd Meg by James BallantineThe Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune AytounBarclay of Ury by John Greenleaf WhittierThe Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey RocheDrifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe
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