This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter
To Myself by Paul FlemingThe Flower by George HerbertSonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John MiltonInvictus by William Ernest HenleyAfar in the Desert by Thomas PringleSad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de VereMy Wife and Child by Henry R. JacksonThe Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTimes Go by Turns by Robert SouthwellCompensation by Christopher Pearse CranchThe Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles HobartSomething Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames HudsonDespondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh CloughGod's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of BrunswickSonnet by Louise LabéWaiting by John BurroughsAunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing GannettIlka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James BallantineUnchanging by Friedrich Martin von BodenstedtI Hold Still by Julius SturmThe Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones BurdetteNever Despair by William Smith O'BrienThe Saddest Fate by AnonymousThe Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames BloodLife by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareSic Vita by Henry KingDeath the Leveller by James ShirleyVirtue Immortal by George HerbertMan's Mortality by Simon WastellMortality by William KnoxThe Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea HemansThe Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan PiattA Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord ByronThe Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes DodgeThanatopsis by William Cullen BryantA Morning Thought by Edward Rowland SillNow and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikThe Grave of Sophocles by SimmiasInscription on Melrose Abbey by AnonymousOn the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis BeaumontElegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayGod's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSleepy Hollow by William Ellery ChanningThe Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir MitchellGreenwood Cemetery by Crammond KennedyThe Dead by Mathilde BlindOn a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry MyersThe Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart BlackieThe Old Sexton by Park BenjaminThe First Snow-fall by James Russell LowellThe Morning-Glory by Maria White LowellThe Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-LampsonAre the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. SangsterJim's Kids by Eugene FieldThe May Queen by Alfred, Lord TennysonOn Anne Allen by Edward FitzGeraldSonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady LindsayJeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de ChateaubriandThe Death-bed by Thomas HoodA Death-bed by James AldrichRequiescat by Matthew Arnold'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch)Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter ScottEvelyn Hope by Robert BrowningAnnabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeThy Braes Were Bonny by John LoganFarewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas MooreSoftly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne SilleryThe Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareHighland Mary by Robert BurnsFair Helen by AnonymousOh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord TennysonToo Late by Dinah Maria Mulock CraikAfter Summer by Philip Bourke MarstonLament for Heliodore by MeleagerOn the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of NavarreTo Mary in Heaven by Robert BurnsMinstrel's Song by Thomas ChattertonThe Passage by Ludwig UhlandLament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady DufferinHome They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. NortonGrief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareSelections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord TennysonAprès by Arthur Joseph MunbyThe Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of OrléansBreak, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord TennysonLavender by AnonymousWhat of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le GallienneVan Elsen by Frederick George ScottWhen Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt WhitmanIf I Should Die To-night by Belle E. SmithAwakening by Washington GladdenBeyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius BonarThe Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness NairneAntony and Cleopatra by William Haines LytleHabeas Corpus by Helen Hunt JacksonFarewell, Life by Thomas HoodFor Annie by Edgar Allan PoeThalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee BrownThe Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningProspice by Robert BrowningI Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus MuhlenbergFarewell by Walter Savage LandorLove and Death by Margaretta Wade DelandTo Death by GluckAsleep, Asleep by Lucy A. BennettRest by Mary Woolsey HowlandIn Harbor by Paul Hamilton HayneHush! by Julia C.R. DorrLife by Anna Laetitia BarbauldThe Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf WhittierThey Are All Gone by Henry VaughanThe Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith BarrOver the River by Nancy Woodbury PriestGrief for the Dead by AnonymousThe Two Waitings by John White ChadwickFor Charlie's Sake by John Williamson PalmerWatching for Papa by AnonymousMy Child by John PierpontSong by Richard Le GallienneThe Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher StoweBlessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen BryantDe Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBlessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington RaymondLines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher StoweDeath in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James BaileyIn Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis StevensonTears by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningResignation by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChristus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington RaymondComfort by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Secret of Death by Sir Edwin ArnoldPeace by AnonymousFootsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHappy Are the Dead by Henry VaughanThe Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. PrestonThe Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen BryantThou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald HeberLycidas by John MiltonAfter Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin ArnoldIt Is Not Death to Die by George Washington BethuneThere Is No Death by James L. M'CreeryGoing and Coming by Edward A. JenksBlind by Israel ZangwillThe Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare
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