The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. - Summary by Tomas Peter
The Primeval Forest: From the Introduction of 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Greenwood Tree: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 5 by William ShakespeareThe Wind and the Pine-Tree: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry TaylorThe Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Holly-Tree by Robert SoutheyA Forest Hymn by William Cullen BryantThe Arab to the Palm by Bayard TaylorThe Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf WhittierThe Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore SimmsThe Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen BryantAmong the Redwoods by Edward Rowland SillThe Voice of the Grass by Sarah RobertsFlowers by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Use of Flowers by Mary HowittHymn to the Flowers by Horace SmithThe Life of Flowers by Walter Savage LandorThe Early Primrose by Henry Kirke WhiteTo Daffodils by Robert HerrickDaffodils by William WordsworthTo the Dandelion by James Russell LowellTrailing Arbutus by Rose Terry CookeThe Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Rhodora: Lines on Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower? by Ralph Waldo EmersonEarly June: From 'Thyrsis' by Matthew ArnoldTo Violets by Robert HerrickA September Violet by Robert Underwood JohnsonThe Wreath by MeleagerThe Death of the Flowers by William Cullen BryantSunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney LanierThe Ivy Green by Charles DickensThe Mountain Fern by Arthur Gerald GeogheganThe Maize by William W. FosdickThe Pumpkin by John Greenleaf WhittierThe Question by Percy Bysshe ShelleySassafras by Samuel Minturn PeckThe Daisy: From the 'Legend of Good Women' by Geoffrey ChaucerTo a Mountain Daisy by Robert BurnsTo Blossoms by Robert HerrickThe Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna CoolbrithThe Water-Lily by John Banister TabbCopa de Oro (California Poppy) by Ina Donna CoolbrithThe Moss Rose by F.W. KrummacherFlowers by Thomas Hood'T Is the Last Rose of Summer: From 'Irish Melodies' by Thomas MooreTo the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen BryantThe Sea-Poppy by Robert Seymour BridgesGoldenrod by Elaine Goodale EastmanThe First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb RileyBirds: From 'The Pelican Island' by James MontgomeryTo the Cuckoo by John LoganTo the Cuckoo by William WordsworthHark, Hark! The Lark: From 'Cymbeline,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William ShakespeareThe Lark Ascending by George MeredithTo the Skylark by William WordsworthTo the Skylark by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Skylark by James HoggThe Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry DanaThe Sandpiper by Celia ThaxterTo a Waterfowl by William Cullen BryantTo the Nightingale by John MiltonThe Nightingale's Song: From 'Music's Duel' by Richard CrashawPhilomena by Matthew ArnoldUnmusical Birds: From 'The Task,' Book I by William CowperRobert of Lincoln by William Cullen BryantThe O'Lincoln Family by Wilson FlaggTo the Lapland Longspur by John BurroughsThe Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse CranchThe Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby StantonThe Blackbird by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Eagle (A Fragment) by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Heath-Cock by Joanna BaillieThe Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker WillisThe English Robin by Harrison WeirAsian Birds by Robert Seymour BridgesThe Scarlet Tanager by Joel BentonThe Winged Worshippers by Charles SpragueThe Departure of the Swallow by William HowittThe Flight of the Geese by Charles G.D. RobertsLines to the Stormy Petrel by AnonymousOde to Mother Carey's Chicken by Theodore WattsThe Grasshopper and Cricket by John KeatsTo the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh HuntA Soliloquy: Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper by Walter HarteTo an Insect by Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Fly: Occasioned by a Fly Drinking Out of the Author's Cup by William OldysTo the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo EmersonWild Honey by Maurice ThompsonA More Ancient Mariner by Bliss CarmanTo a Louse by Robert BurnsTo a Mouse by Robert BurnsThe Housekeeper by Charles LambRemonstrance with the Snails by AnonymousThe Tiger by William BlakeThe Lion's Ride by Ferdinand FreiligrathFodder-Time: From 'Songs of Toil' by Carmen Sylva, Queen of RoumaniaThe Ox: From the 'Poesie' by Giosuè CarducciFolding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont and John FletcherBeth Gêlert by William Robert SpencerTo a Dog's Memory by Louise Imogen GuineyHelvellyn by Sir Walter ScottThe Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonThe Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)The Chariot of Cuchullin: From 'The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney' by AnonymousChiquita by Bret HarteThe Sea by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Sea: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord ByronThe Sea by Bernard BartonThe Disappointed Lover: From 'The Triumph of Time' by Algernon Charles SwinburneOcean: From 'The Course of Time,' Book I by Robert PollokThe Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)The Gravedigger by Bliss CarmanThe Treasures of the Deep by Felicia HemansFlotsam and Jetsam by AnonymousA Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles SwinburneGulf-Weed by Cornelius George FennerSea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley SigourneyThe Coral Reef: From 'The Pelican Island' by James MontgomeryThe Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell HolmesA Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan CunninghamSong of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew MarvellMy Brigantine: From 'The Water Witch' by James Fenimore CooperThe Heaving of the Lead by Charles DibdinThe Minute-Gun by R.S. SharpeAll's Well: From 'The British Fleet' by Thomas DibdinThe Bay of Biscay by Andrew CherryTom Bowling by Charles DibdinYe Mariners of England by Thomas CampbellThe White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)Our Boat to the Waves by William Ellery ChanningA Life on the Ocean Wave by Epes SargentTo Sea! by Thomas Lovell BeddoesTwilight at Sea by Amelia B. WelbyTacking Ship Off Shore by Walter MitchellThe Storm by George Alexander StevensThe Wreck: From 'Don Juan,' Canto II by Lord ByronThe Shipwreck by William FalconerThe Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Polar Quest by Richard BurtonThe Shore: From 'Ariadne' by Charles G.D. RobertsThe Kearsarge by James Jeffrey RocheThe Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson TurnerDover Beach by Matthew ArnoldWith a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry WebbThe Sea Shell: From 'The Excursion,' Book IV by William WordsworthThe Shell: From 'Gebir,' Book I by Walter Savage LandorHampton Beach by John Greenleaf WhittierAmong the Rocks by Robert BrowningThe Inchcape Rock by Robert SoutheyHow's My Boy? by Sydney DobellThe Sailor's Consolation by William PittPoor Jack by Charles DibdinThe Mariner's Dream by William DimondThe Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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