The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of famous tragic poems set in different regions of the world, including Greece, Rome, the Orient, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, England, America, and the sea. It ends off with a selection of mischievous poems about women and their proclivities. The collection also includes an introductory essay by folklore scholar Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919). - Summary by Tomas Peter
The Old Case of Poetry in a New Court by Francis Barton GummereIphigeneia and Agamemnon by Walter Savage LandorThe Sacrifice of Polyxena: From 'Hecuba' by EuripidesParrhasius by Nathaniel Parker WillisLucius Junius Brutus over the Body of Lucretia: From 'Brutus' by John Howard PayneThe Roman Father: From 'Virginia' by Thomas Babington, Lord MacaulayMark Antony, over the Body of Cæsar: From 'Julius Cæsar,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareThe Sack of the City by Victor-Marie HugoThe Slaying of Sohrab: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew ArnoldKhamsin by Clinton ScollardThe Diver by Johann C.F. SchillerGod's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop by Robert SoutheyCountess Laura by George Henry BokerOthello's Remorse: From 'Othello,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareThe Trial of Beatrice: From 'The Cenci,' Act V by Percy Bysshe ShelleyFra Giacomo by Robert BuchananGinevra by Samuel RogersBernardo Del Carpio by Felicia HemansThe Prisoner of Chillon by Lord ByronBefore Sedan by Austin DobsonIvàn Ivànovitch by Robert BrowningA Dagger of the Mind: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareThe Murder: From 'Macbeth,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareThe Twa Corbies by AnonymousThe Sack of Baltimore by Thomas Osborne DavisThe Rose and the Gauntlet by John SterlingThe Young Gray Head by Caroline Bowles SoutheyHigh-Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Time, 1571) by Jean IngelowRizpah (17—) by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas HoodIn the Engine-Shed by William WilkinsRevelry of the Dying by Bartholomew DowlingThe Drummer-Boy's Burial by AnonymousRamon (Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico) by Bret HarteAt the Cedars by Duncan Campbell ScottThe Sands o' Dee by Charles KingsleyOn the Loss of the Royal George (Written When the News Arrived, 1782) by William CowperThe Three Fishers by Charles KingsleyCasabianca by Felicia HemansThe Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Second Mate by Fitz-James O'BrienA Sea Story by Emily Henrietta HickeyWoman by AnonymousThe Women Fo'k by James HoggOf a Certaine Man by Sir John HarringtonWomen's Chorus by AristophanesThe Wives of Weinsberg by Gottfried Augüst BürgerSorrows of Werther by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Well of St. Keyne by Robert SoutheyThe Belle of the Ball by Winthrop Mackworth PraedEcho and the Lover by AnonymousEcho by John Godfrey Saxe'Nothing to Wear' by William Allen ButlerThe Sea by Eva L. OgdenThe Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham by John Godfrey SaxeOn an Old Muff by Frederick Locker-LampsonHow Paddy Got 'Under Government' by Anonymous
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