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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

Year of Publication: 1904Genres: Anthologies

Running Time: 04 hours 17 minutes 51 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers Leanne Yau	2:45
2	Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Tomas Peter	1:14
3	Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne Tomas Peter	2:17
4	Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge Sonia	2:21
5	A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter Leanne Yau	1:35
6	The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice Craig Franklin	5:25
7	Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci Jason in Panama	1:27
8	There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates Leanne Yau	1:18
9	Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper Tomas Peter	3:45
10	Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sonia	1:42
11	Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore Sonia	1:35
12	On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau Craig Franklin	2:47
13	'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth Leanne Yau	1:05
14	The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly Leanne Yau	4:49
15	Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius Leanne Yau	0:44
16	The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth Jason in Panama	1:22
17	Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch Sonia	2:03
18	Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón Tomas Peter	2:18
19	My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer Sonia	4:29
20	To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial Craig Franklin	1:28
21	Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux Jason in Panama	1:48
22	A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats Craig Franklin	2:00
23	The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky Jason in Panama	1:17
24	Æsop by Andrew Lang Leanne Yau	2:05
25	Indirection by Richard Realf Sonia	2:29
26	Proem by Madison Cawein Tomas Peter	1:31
27	The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey Craig Franklin	1:20
28	Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller Jason in Panama	1:03
29	The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron Craig Franklin	1:47
30	Impression by Edmund Gosse Sonia	2:11
31	The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave Jason in Panama	1:49
32	On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton Leanne Yau	1:15
33	The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) Craig Franklin	1:58
34	Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth Craig Franklin	1:24
35	The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson Sonia	2:10
36	On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats Jason in Panama	1:21
37	The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang Craig Franklin	1:17
38	Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney Leanne Yau	1:27
39	The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers Leanne Yau	1:16
40	The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder Leanne Yau	1:13
41	An Autograph by James Russell Lowell Craig Franklin	0:53
42	Art by Sir Gilbert Parker Jason in Panama	2:18
43	Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Leanne Yau	2:01
44	The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell Tomas Peter	1:53
45	The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson Jason in Panama	3:07
46	Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor Leanne Yau	0:37
47	Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby Sonia	4:13
48	Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne Craig Franklin	1:47
49	One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser Sonia	1:34
50	The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott Jason in Panama	2:32
51	Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr Tomas Peter	1:26
52	The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller Sonia	2:27
53	The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius Sonia	2:15
54	Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson Craig Franklin	1:04
55	Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous Sonia	0:51
56	The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor Jason in Panama	1:17
57	The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard Leanne Yau	1:31
58	Books by John Higgins Leanne Yau	0:39
59	Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Leanne Yau	0:57
60	Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Sonia	2:07
61	To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley Leanne Yau	0:47
62	The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder Leanne Yau	1:22
63	A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden Tomas Peter	3:58
64	The Spell by Paul Verlaine Tomas Peter	1:21
65	The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins Sonia	6:59
66	Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley Craig Franklin	1:52
67	Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden Tomas Peter	9:51
68	Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey Jason in Panama	1:20
69	Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman Tomas Peter	4:57
70	On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Jason in Panama	3:02
71	The Artist by Arthur Grissom Sonia	1:29
72	A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton Sonia	1:39
73	On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson Tomas Peter	1:58
74	Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman Sonia	2:41
75	The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford Sonia	2:01
76	Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood Leanne Yau	3:39
77	The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones Sonia	2:45
78	'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham Sonia	3:30
79	'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney Sonia	3:12
80	Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott Jason in Panama	1:18
81	For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns Tomas Peter	2:52
82	The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay Jason in Panama	3:09
83	The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sonia	12:02
84	Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates Craig Franklin	1:16
85	The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker Tomas Peter	1:44
86	The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine Tomas Peter	3:38
87	Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller Craig Franklin	3:08
88	Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jason in Panama	1:53
89	Work by Henry van Dyke Craig Franklin	1:14
90	A Wish by Abraham Cowley Jason in Panama	1:46
91	Contentment by Joshua Sylvester Sonia	1:46
92	Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene Sonia	1:25
93	Song by John Bunyan Jason in Panama	0:58
94	In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange Craig Franklin	2:27
95	Cleon and I by Charles Mackay Jason in Panama	1:51
96	The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams Tomas Peter	3:42
97	Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sonia	3:53
98	Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tomas Peter	5:02
99	To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston Craig Franklin	1:23
100	A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend Leanne Yau	1:52
101	The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold Sonia	2:08
102	Rest by Margaret L. Woods Tomas Peter	1:36
103	Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher Leanne Yau	0:54
104	Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Leanne Yau	0:40
105	Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney Tomas Peter	1:36
106	Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare Tomas Peter	2:33
107	Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth Leanne Yau	1:13
108	Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson Craig Franklin	3:28
109	The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton Sonia	2:28
110	The Two Oceans by John Sterling Sonia	1:03
111	Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne Tomas Peter	5:29
112	The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney Tomas Peter	3:22