World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)


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 (8 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson
Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson
Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland
Ideality by Hartley Coleridge
Fancy by John Keats
Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespe…
Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare
Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick
Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakes…
Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 …
The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by Willia…
Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph
The Fairies by William Allingham
Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg
The Fairy Child by John Anster
Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston
The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake
Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly
Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo
The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton
The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns
The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine
The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne
The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid
The Comet by Charles Sangster
The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan
The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston
Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell
Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edm…
Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser
The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spen…
The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser
The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson
Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller
The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne
A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone
Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
Sherwood by Alfred Noyes
Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson
Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young
To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson
Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore
Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young
Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon
The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare
The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson
The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson
What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch
The Making of Man by John White Chadwick
The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond
Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám
Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift
This Life by William Drummond
The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton
Retribution by Friedrich von Logau
The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Generous Air by Palladas
Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson
Life by Richard Henry Wilde
Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough
Life by George Herbert
Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland
History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)
My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel
Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith
London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly
The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant
L'Allegro by John Milton
Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith)
The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith
The Epicure by Anacreon
The Indian Weed by Anonymous
Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine
Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio
Il Penseroso by John Milton
Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge
Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne
Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Opportunity by William Blake
Opportunity by John James Ingalls
Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky
Augury by Edith M. Thomas
'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette
A Tear by Samuel Rogers
The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury
The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill
At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton
A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier
Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson
Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller
A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller
Yussouf by James Russell Lowell
Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser
Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius
Fortune by Sophocles
Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope
Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci
The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor
Growing Gray by Austin Dobson
Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe
The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale
Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller
The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope
The Will by Dr. John Donne
To a Skeleton by Anonymous
The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar