The fifth 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 poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter
The Poetry of Nature by Charles George Douglas RobertsThe World Is Too Much with Us (Sonnet) by William WordsworthEarth, Ocean, Air: From the Preface of 'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a Beautiful Day by John SterlingGod in Nature: From 'Paracelsus' by Robert BrowningMy Heart Leaps Up by William WordsworthEach and All by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Country Faith by Norman GaleTintern Abbey by William WordsworthGreat Nature Is an Army Gay by Richard Watson GilderCome to These Scenes of Peace by William Lisle BowlesOde on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas GrayNature by Jones VeryInfluence of Natural Objects: From 'The Prelude' I by William WordsworthAn Indian Song by William Butler YeatsThe Tables Turned by William WordsworthRus in Urbe by Clement ScottThe Faun (A Fragment) by Richard HoveyInvocation to Light: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book III by John MiltonLight: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book VII by John MiltonLight by George MacDonaldThe Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin TaylorFrom the 'Hymn to Light' by Abraham CowleyDaybreak by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDawn by Richard Watson GilderMorning Song by Joanna BaillieMorning by John CunninghamPack Clouds Away by Thomas HeywoodMorning: From 'The Minstrel' by James BeattieSummer Rain by Hartley ColeridgeThe Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen BluntA Midsummer's Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles HarpurNoontide by John LeydenA Summer Noon by William HowittThe Midges Dance Aboon the Burn by Robert TannahillSunset: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe ShelleyFancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDay Is Dying: From 'The Spanish Gypsy' by Marian Evans Lewes Cross (George Eliot)The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell ScottEvening by Archibald LampmanA Twilight Fancy by Dora Read GoodaleTo the Evening Star by Thomas CampbellThe Evening Wind by William Cullen BryantEvening in Paradise: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John MiltonEvening: From 'Don Juan' by Lord ByronMoonlight on the Prairie: From 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo Delia by Samuel DanielThe Camp at Night: From 'The Iliad,' Book VIII by HomerTo Night by Percy Bysshe ShelleyNight by Joseph Blanco WhiteNight: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto II by Lord ByronNight: From 'Queen Mab' by Percy Bysshe ShelleyHymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night by Charles G.D. RobertsA Hymn: From the Conclusion of 'The Seasons' by James ThomsonMarch by William MorrisWhen the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles SwinburneMarch by William WordsworthSpring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas NasheReturn of Spring by Pierre de RonsardSpring by Thomas GraySummer Longings by Denis Florence MacCarthySweetly Breathing, Vernal Air by Thomas CarewHome Thoughts from Abroad by Robert BrowningMay Morning by Celia ThaxterSong (On May Morning) by John MiltonSpring in Carolina by Henry TimrodSpring by Ebenezer ElliottDie Down, O Dismal Day by David GrayMorning in May: From 'The Canterbury Pilgrims: The Knightes Tale' by Geoffrey ChaucerCuckoo Song by AnonymousSpring: From 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord TennysonBetrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence StedmanThe Ploughman by Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Plough by Richard Hengist HorneThey Come! The Merry Summer Months by William MotherwellSong of the Summer Winds by George DarleyA Drop of Dew by Andrew MarvellJune by William Cullen BryantThe Story of a Summer Day by Alexander HumeKnee-Deep in June by James Whitcomb RileyBallade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest HenleyInvocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox BennettRain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBefore the Rain by Thomas Bailey AldrichSigns of Rain by Dr. Edward JennerSummer Storm by James Russell LowellAfter the Rain by Thomas Bailey AldrichA Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton HayneRain by Ebenezer JonesThe Dancing of the Air by Sir John DaviesWicklow Winds: From 'Wicklow' by George Francis Savage-ArmstrongOde to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Cloud Chorus: From 'The Clouds' by AristophanesThe Cloud by Percy Bysshe ShelleySummer Moods by John ClareIn Praise of Angling by Sir Henry WottonThe Angler's Wish by Izaak WaltonThe Angler by John ChalkhillSwimming: From 'The Two Foscari' by Lord ByronThe Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry DanaThe Solitary Woodsman by Charles G.D. RobertsSeptember by George ArnoldThe Latter Rain by Jones VeryTo Autumn by John KeatsHarvest Song by Ludwig H.C. HöltyLife in the Autumn Woods (Virginia) by Philip Pendleton CookeHunting Song by Sir Walter ScottThe Hunter's Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)The Hunted Squirrel: From 'Britannia's Pastorals,' Book I, Song 5 by William BrowneA Hunting We Will Go by Henry FieldingThe Stag Hunt: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto I by Sir Walter ScottThe Stag Hunt: From 'The Seasons: Autumn' by James ThomsonThe Old Squire by Wilfrid Scawen BluntIndian Summer by John Banister TabbNo! by Thomas HoodWhen the Frost Is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb RileyAutumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe ShelleyWhen Icicles Hang by the Wall: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William ShakespeareWinter (A Song to Be Sung Behind the Stove) by Matthias ClaudiusFrost by Edith Matilda ThomasSnow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDecember by Joel BentonSnow-Flakes by Mary Mapes DodgeThe Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn WetheraldThe Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant'The Snowing of the Pines' by Thomas Wentworth HigginsonA Snow-Storm: Scene in a Vermont Winter by Charles Gamage EastmanWinter by John Howard BryantWinter Scenes: From 'The Seasons: Winter' by James ThomsonWinter Song by Ludwig H.C. HöltyWinter Morning: From 'The Winter Morning Walk: 'The Task,' Book V' by William CowperSleigh Song by G.W. PetteeOur Skater Belle by AnonymousO Winter! Wilt Thou Never Go? by David GrayA Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonaldThe Valley Brook by John Howard BryantSong of the Brook: From 'The Brook: An Idyl' by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Shaded Water by William Gilmore SimmsA Farewell by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Birch Stream by Anna Boynton AverillSong of the River by Charles KingsleyAfton Water by Robert BurnsThe Snows by Charles SangsterMy River by Eduard MörikeOn the Rhine by William Lisle BowlesOxus: From 'Sohrab and Rustum' by Matthew ArnoldThe Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins BrainardTo Seneca Lake by James Gates PercivalThe Bugle: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler YeatsCalm on Lake Leman: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord ByronThe Silence of the Hills by William Prescott FosterStorm in the Alps: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord ByronDover Cliff: From 'King Lear,' Act IV. Sc. 6 by William ShakespeareChoral Song: From 'The Bacchae' by EuripidesAn Alpine Descent by Samuel RogersFrom 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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