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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

This is the third 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 famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. Summary by Tomas Peter

Year of Publication: 1904Genres: Anthologies

Running Time: 06 hours 21 minutes 14 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	To Myself by Paul Fleming Lian Pang	1:07
2	The Flower by George Herbert Gaby	3:17
3	Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner by John Milton Sonia	1:13
4	Invictus by William Ernest Henley Sonia	1:07
5	Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle Tomas Peter	5:54
6	Sad Is Our Youth, For It Is Ever Going by Aubrey Thomas de Vere Sonia	1:17
7	My Wife and Child by Henry R. Jackson Tomas Peter	2:37
8	The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Gaby	1:33
9	Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell Lian Pang	1:47
10	Compensation by Christopher Pearse Cranch Gaby	3:08
11	The Changed Cross by the Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart Sonia	4:48
12	Something Beyond by Mary Clemmer Ames Hudson Tomas Peter	2:00
13	Despondency Rebuked by Arthur Hugh Clough Lian Pang	1:15
14	God's Sure Help in Sorrow by Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick Lian Pang	1:42
15	Sonnet by Louise Labé Lian Pang	1:06
16	Waiting by John Burroughs Sonia	1:25
17	Aunt Phillis's Guest by William Channing Gannett Tomas Peter	3:19
18	Ilka Blade o' Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o' Dew by James Ballantine Tomas Peter	1:42
19	Unchanging by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt Gaby	1:03
20	I Hold Still by Julius Sturm Gaby	2:29
21	The Good Great Man by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sonia	1:15
22	When My Ship Comes In by Robert Jones Burdette Gaby	3:04
23	Never Despair by William Smith O'Brien Sonia	1:30
24	The Saddest Fate by Anonymous Sonia	1:31
25	The Song of the Savoyards by Henry Ames Blood Tomas Peter	3:35
26	Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Gaby	1:46
27	Soliloquy on Death: From 'Hamlet,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Gaby	3:00
28	Sic Vita by Henry King Sonia	1:02
29	Death the Leveller by James Shirley Lian Pang	1:30
30	Virtue Immortal by George Herbert Gaby	1:48
31	Man's Mortality by Simon Wastell Lian Pang	1:32
32	Mortality by William Knox Sonia	3:34
33	The Hour of Death by Felicia Dorothea Hemans Gaby	3:31
34	The Term of Death by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Lian Pang	0:38
35	A Picture of Death: From 'The Giaour' by Lord Byron Gaby	3:00
36	The Two Mysteries by Mary Mapes Dodge Tomas Peter	2:20
37	Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Lian Pang	4:55
38	A Morning Thought by Edward Rowland Sill Gaby	1:52
39	Now and Afterwards by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Lian Pang	1:23
40	The Grave of Sophocles by Simmias Lian Pang	0:50
41	Inscription on Melrose Abbey by Anonymous Gaby	1:00
42	On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont Tomas Peter	1:16
43	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray Tomas Peter	8:10
44	God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang	1:33
45	Sleepy Hollow by William Ellery Channing Tomas Peter	1:44
46	The Quaker Graveyard by Silas Weir Mitchell Sonia	1:22
47	Greenwood Cemetery by Crammond Kennedy Lian Pang	1:03
48	The Dead by Mathilde Blind Gaby	1:39
49	On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers Gaby	1:10
50	The Emigrant Lassie by John Stuart Blackie Tomas Peter	2:12
51	The Old Sexton by Park Benjamin Lian Pang	2:09
52	The First Snow-fall by James Russell Lowell Sonia	2:03
53	The Morning-Glory by Maria White Lowell Gaby	3:43
54	The Widow's Mite by Frederick Locker-Lampson Sonia	1:04
55	Are the Children at Home? by Margaret E.M. Sangster Gaby	3:54
56	Jim's Kids by Eugene Field Tomas Peter	2:44
57	The May Queen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Gaby	14:38
58	On Anne Allen by Edward FitzGerald Lian Pang	2:11
59	Sonnet (Suggested by Mr. Watts's Picture of Love and Death) by Lady Lindsay Sonia	1:18
60	Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur by François-Auguste, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Tomas Peter	1:26
61	The Death-bed by Thomas Hood Sonia	1:02
62	A Death-bed by James Aldrich Lian Pang	0:45
63	Requiescat by Matthew Arnold Tomas Peter	1:10
64	'The Unillumined Verge': To a Friend Dying by Robert Bridges (Droch) Sonia	2:11
65	Coronach: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott Gaby	1:57
66	Evelyn Hope by Robert Browning Tomas Peter	3:21
67	Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Tomas Peter	2:13
68	Thy Braes Were Bonny by John Logan Lian Pang	2:18
69	Farewell to Thee, Araby's Daughter: From 'The Fire-Worshippers' by Thomas Moore Sonia	2:50
70	Softly Woo Away Her Breath by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) Lian Pang	1:16
71	She Died in Beauty by Charles Doyne Sillery Gaby	1:29
72	The Death of Minnehaha: From 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sonia	4:58
73	Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonia	6:08
74	Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun: From 'Cymbeline,' Act IV. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter	1:29
75	Highland Mary by Robert Burns Tomas Peter	1:49
76	Fair Helen by Anonymous Tomas Peter	2:09
77	Oh That 't Were Possible: From 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tomas Peter	4:15
78	Too Late by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Lian Pang	1:36
79	After Summer by Philip Bourke Marston Gaby	2:15
80	Lament for Heliodore by Meleager Tomas Peter	1:22
81	On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre Sonia	1:25
82	To Mary in Heaven by Robert Burns Tomas Peter	2:09
83	Minstrel's Song by Thomas Chatterton Lian Pang	2:40
84	The Passage by Ludwig Uhland Sonia	1:32
85	Lament of the Irish Emigrant by Lady Dufferin Tomas Peter	2:35
86	Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia	1:10
87	The King of Denmark's Ride by Caroline E.S. Norton Tomas Peter	2:34
88	Grief: From 'Hamlet,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter	1:48
89	Selections from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia	8:34
90	Après by Arthur Joseph Munby Tomas Peter	1:41
91	The Fairest Thing in Mortal Eyes by Charles, Duke of Orléans Tomas Peter	2:07
92	Break, Break, Break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia	1:06
93	Lavender by Anonymous Gaby	3:26
94	What of the Darkness? (To the Happy Dead People) by Richard Le Gallienne Sonia	1:31
95	Van Elsen by Frederick George Scott Gaby	1:50
96	When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed (The Death of Lincoln) by Walt Whitman Tomas Peter	16:14
97	If I Should Die To-night by Belle E. Smith Sonia	2:03
98	Awakening by Washington Gladden Lian Pang	3:14
99	Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping by Horatius Bonar Lian Pang	2:10
100	The Land o' the Leal by Carolina, Baroness Nairne Tomas Peter	1:13
101	Antony and Cleopatra by William Haines Lytle Tomas Peter	2:37
102	Habeas Corpus by Helen Hunt Jackson Sonia	2:47
103	Farewell, Life by Thomas Hood Gaby	1:41
104	For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe Tomas Peter	3:24
105	Thalatta! Thalatta! (Cry of the Ten Thousand) by Joseph Brownlee Brown Sonia	1:15
106	The Sleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lian Pang	2:31
107	Prospice by Robert Browning Gaby	2:20
108	I Would Not Live Alway by William Augustus Muhlenberg Lian Pang	3:18
109	Farewell by Walter Savage Landor Lian Pang	0:37
110	Love and Death by Margaretta Wade Deland Sonia	1:08
111	To Death by Gluck Gaby	2:16
112	Asleep, Asleep by Lucy A. Bennett Lian Pang	2:23
113	Rest by Mary Woolsey Howland Gaby	1:39
114	In Harbor by Paul Hamilton Hayne Tomas Peter	2:08
115	Hush! by Julia C.R. Dorr Sonia	1:15
116	Life by Anna Laetitia Barbauld Lian Pang	1:54
117	The Angel of Patience by John Greenleaf Whittier Lian Pang	1:38
118	They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan Lian Pang	2:23
119	The Bottom Drawer by Amelia Edith Barr Sonia	2:08
120	Over the River by Nancy Woodbury Priest Gaby	3:55
121	Grief for the Dead by Anonymous Lian Pang	1:42
122	The Two Waitings by John White Chadwick Gaby	2:55
123	For Charlie's Sake by John Williamson Palmer Tomas Peter	4:22
124	Watching for Papa by Anonymous Tomas Peter	1:27
125	My Child by John Pierpont Gaby	4:22
126	Song by Richard Le Gallienne Gaby	1:03
127	The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang	1:30
128	'Only a Year' by Harriet Beecher Stowe Lian Pang	2:01
129	Blessed Are They That Mourn by William Cullen Bryant Lian Pang	1:27
130	De Profundis by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tomas Peter	5:27
131	Blessed Are They by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Sonia	1:33
132	Lines to the Memory of 'Annie,' Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860 by Harriet Beecher Stowe Sonia	2:57
133	Death in Youth: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Lian Pang	1:05
134	In Memoriam F.A.S. by Robert Louis Stevenson Tomas Peter	1:39
135	Tears by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gaby	1:48
136	Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lian Pang	2:39
137	Christus Consolator by Rossiter Worthington Raymond Sonia	1:44
138	Comfort by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lian Pang	1:10
139	The Secret of Death by Sir Edwin Arnold Sonia	4:18
140	Peace by Anonymous Lian Pang	1:05
141	Footsteps of Angels by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Gaby	3:08
142	Happy Are the Dead by Henry Vaughan Sonia	2:45
143	The Green Grass under the Snow by Annie A. Preston Sonia	0:56
144	The Conqueror's Grave by William Cullen Bryant Gaby	5:38
145	Thou Art Gone to the Grave by Reginald Heber Lian Pang	1:28
146	Lycidas by John Milton Tomas Peter	11:12
147	After Death: From 'Pearls of the Faith' by Sir Edwin Arnold Tomas Peter	4:04
148	It Is Not Death to Die by George Washington Bethune Gaby	1:39
149	There Is No Death by James L. M'Creery Gaby	4:19
150	Going and Coming by Edward A. Jenks Sonia	1:47
151	Blind by Israel Zangwill Gaby	1:59
152	The Death of Death: Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare Sonia	1:29