The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter
What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le GallienneTo the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John DaviesTo Mary Stuart by Pierre de RonsardTo the Lord-General Cromwell by John MiltonO, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas MooreCharles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel JohnsonNapoleon by Victor HugoNapoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord ByronOn the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles SwinburneGeorge Washington by AnonymousWashington by James Russell LowellDaniel Webster by Oliver Wendell HolmesWilliam Lloyd Garrison by James Russell LowellHenry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry PhelpsAbraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom TaylorO Captain! My Captain! by Walt WhitmanOn the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson GilderThe Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence StedmanAbraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Russell LowellAlbert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord TennysonTo Virgil by Alfred, Lord TennysonIn a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell LowellTo Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de MontreuilGeorge Sand by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord TennysonOn a Bust of Dante by Thomas William ParsonsHans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund GosseSir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by Matthew RoydonTo the Memory of Ben Jonson by John ClevelandOde to Ben Jonson by Robert HerrickOn the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben JonsonTo the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us by Ben JonsonShakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel JohnsonAn Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John MiltonShakespeare by Hartley ColeridgeGuilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey AldrichHierarchy of Angels by Thomas HeywoodUnder the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John DrydenTo Milton ('London, 1802') by William WordsworthWalton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William WordsworthThe Sonnet by William WordsworthCamp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth PraedTo Thomas Moore by Lord ByronShelley by Alexander Hay JappMemorabilia by Robert BrowningByron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert PollokMacaulay as Poet by Walter Savage LandorOn the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William WordsworthTo the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew SimmonsBurns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer ElliottBurns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf WhittierTo Benjamin Robert Haydon by John KeatsOn a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Lost Leader by Robert BrowningMemorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew ArnoldFrom 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William WatsonIn Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles SwinburneA Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. VenableDickens in Camp by Bret HarteDickens by Algernon Charles SwinburneTo Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord HoughtonTennyson by Thomas Bailey AldrichLachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William WatsonRobert Browning by Walter Savage LandorThe Burial of Robert Browning by Michael FieldJoseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene HalleckFitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf WhittierPoe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry BonerOn the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles SwinburneCarlyle and Emerson by Montgomery SchuylerEmerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell LowellOut from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser' in 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt WhitmanMyself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt WhitmanHawthorne by Edmund Clarence StedmanHawthorne by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHarriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence DunbarTo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James Russell LowellLongfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin DobsonHouse by Robert BrowningArt Criticism by Walter Savage LandorAnne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by AnonymousThe Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander PopeA Bard's Epitaph by Robert BurnsChopin by Emma LazarusThe Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf WhittierKane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien
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