- World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)
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The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as disappointment in love; parting and absence; adversity; comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and consolation. It also includes an introductory essay by American theologian Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). There are links to sung versions of some of the poems on the Internet Archive page
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- Chapters
- An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott
- The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
- Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore
- Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)
- The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare
- Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
- The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns
- Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney
- Agatha by Alfred Austin
- The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson
- Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Song by Sir Walter Scott
- Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard
- To a Portrait by Arthur Symons
- Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine
- Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle
- Waly, Waly by Anonymous
- Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous
- My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell
- Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman
- A Woman's Love by John Hay
- The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers
- Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham
- Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell
- Divided by Jean Ingelow
- To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot
- The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)
- Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
- Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton
- Time's Revenge by Agathias
- The Dream by Lord Byron
- Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore
- Blighted Love by Luís de Camões
- The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)
- Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge
- The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux
- Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler
- Parting by Coventry Patmore
- To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
- Good-bye by Anonymous
- Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns
- O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
- Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron
- Song of the Young Highlander Summoned from His Bride by the "Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu": From "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott
- Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay
- The Parting Lovers by Anonymous
- Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
- Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough
- Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron
- Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron
- Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton
- Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
- We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
- Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell
- Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell
- Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore
- Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
- Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
- To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace
- To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier
- I Love My Jean by Robert Burns
- Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell
- O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns
- The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir
- Absence by Frances Anne Kemble
- Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel
- Daisy by Francis Thompson
- Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)
- What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire
- Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
- Absence by Anonymous
- Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)
- "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
- Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan
- The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous
- My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster
- Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster
- The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper
- Man by Walter Savage Landor
- The World by Francis, Lord Bacon
- Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele
- The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles
- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
- The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus
- Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton
- Lines by Chidiock Tichborne
- Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher
- The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
- The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe
- Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
- Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter
- Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron
- A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
- The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood
- Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton
- Old by Ralph Hoyt
- The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
- The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger
- The Beggar by Thomas Moss
- A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley
- "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous
- Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel
- Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson
- London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous
- The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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