The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter
The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis RichardsonFantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben JonsonHallo, My Fancy by William ClelandIdeality by Hartley ColeridgeFancy by John KeatsImagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareQueen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William ShakespeareOberon's Feast by Robert HerrickFairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareCompliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareThe Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William ShakespeareFairies' Song by Thomas RandolphThe Fairies by William AllinghamKilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James HoggThe Fairy Child by John AnsterGarden Fairies by Philip Bourke MarstonThe Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman DrakeOh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes BaylySongs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareAiry Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William ShakespeareThe Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Djinns by Victor Marie HugoThe Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John MiltonThe Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John MiltonTam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert BurnsThe Lore-Lei by Heinrich HeineThe Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William BrowneThe Forsaken Merman by Matthew ArnoldThe Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane BarlowA Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningA Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by OvidThe Comet by Charles SangsterThe Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert BuchananThe Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel RossettiThe King's Highway by Harriet Waters PrestonRhœcus by James Russell LowellUna and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund SpenserUna and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund SpenserThe Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund SpenserThe Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund SpenserThe Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James ThomsonOutward Bound by Thomas Bailey AldrichThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord TennysonRime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeUlalume by Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan PoeThe Sunken City by Wilhelm MüllerThe Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson ShanlyThe Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert BrowningQuatrains by William Hamilton HayneA Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray ConeEcho and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton BrydgesSherwood by Alfred NoyesFar-Away by Dr. George SigersonTime the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward YoungTo-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel JohnsonThree Days by James Roberts GilmoreProcrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward YoungAve atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott WatsonThe Ballad of Dead Ladies by François VillonThe Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William ShakespeareThe Old Year and the New by William Cleaver WilkinsonThe Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord TennysonA Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin DobsonWhat Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt WhitmanThe Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles BranchThe Making of Man by John White ChadwickThe Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. RaymondRubáiyát by Omar KhayyámTime (An Enigma) by Jonathan SwiftThis Life by William DrummondThe Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry WottonRetribution by Friedrich von LogauThe Lye by Sir Walter RaleighThe Generous Air by PalladasGood Life, Long Life by Ben JonsonLife by Richard Henry WildeWhere Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh CloughLife by George HerbertLife by Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig UhlandHistory of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver HuckelAddress to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace SmithLondon Bridge by Frederic Edward WeatherlyThe Crowded Street by William Cullen BryantL'Allegro by John MiltonDining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George MeredithThe Epicure by AnacreonThe Indian Weed by AnonymousSmoking Spiritualized by Ralph ErskineWithout and Within by Pietro MetastasioIl Penseroso by John MiltonExcelsior by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Wild Ride by Louise Imogen GuineyThe Vagabonds by John Townsend TrowbridgeFame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander PopePelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist HorneEnid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord TennysonFortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene HalleckOpportunity by William BlakeOpportunity by John James IngallsUndeveloped Lives by William E.H. LeckyAugury by Edith M. Thomas'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. BurdetteA Tear by Samuel RogersThe Jester's Sermon by George Walter ThornburyThe Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland SillAt Midsummer by Louise Chandler MoultonA Sunrise Song by Sidney LanierIllusions by Robert Underwood JohnsonProem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin MillerA California Christmas by Joaquin MillerYussouf by James Russell LowellBeauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund SpenserBeauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by PropertiusFortune by SophoclesGreatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander PopePerseverance by Leonardo da VinciThe One White Hair by Walter Savage LandorGrowing Gray by Austin DobsonHealthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareQuack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George CrabbeThe Three Warnings by Hester Lynch ThraleOld Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund WallerThe Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander PopeThe Will by Dr. John DonneTo a Skeleton by AnonymousThe True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar
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