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World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)

The sixth 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 notable poems that deal with our own sensibilities and human qualities, covering subjects such as memory; thoughts and dreams; the figure of the poet; books; music; the arts; work and labor; contentment; rest; and sleep. - Summary by Tomas Peter (4 hr 17 min)

Chapters

Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers

Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne

Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge

A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter

The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice

Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci

There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates

Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in…

Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore

On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau

'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth

The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly

Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius

The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth

Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch

Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón

My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer

To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial

Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats

The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky

Æsop by Andrew Lang

Indirection by Richard Realf

Proem by Madison Cawein

The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey

Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller

The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron

Impression by Edmund Gosse

The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave

On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)

Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth

The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang

Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers

The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder

An Autograph by James Russell Lowell

Art by Sir Gilbert Parker

Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell

The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson

Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor

Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby

Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne

One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser

The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Sc…

Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr

The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius

Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson

Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous

The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor

The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard

Books by John Higgins

Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakesp…

Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder

A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden

The Spell by Paul Verlaine

The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins

Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley

Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden

Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey

Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman

On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Artist by Arthur Grissom

A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton

On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson

Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman

The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford

Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood

The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones

'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham

'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney

Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott

For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns

The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay

The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates

The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker

The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine

Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller

Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Work by Henry van Dyke

A Wish by Abraham Cowley

Contentment by Joshua Sylvester

Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene

Song by John Bunyan

In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange

Cleon and I by Charles Mackay

The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams

Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston

A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend

The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold

Rest by Margaret L. Woods

Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher

Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)

Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare

Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth

Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson

The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton

The Two Oceans by John Sterling

Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne

The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney