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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 03

Volume 3 — INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES

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For occupation, nativity, etc., of Authors, and the American publishers of the American poetical works, see General Index of Authors, Volume X.

ÆSCHYLUS.

Wail of Prometheus Bound, The (Mrs. Browning's Translation)156

AGATHIAS.

Time's Revenge (Bland's Translation)72

ALDRICH, JAMES.

Death-Bed, A306

ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE.

Parting Lovers, The (From the Chinese)104

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM.

Dirty Old Man, The55

ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN.

After Death in Arabia.452

Secret of Death, The434

ARNOLD, MATTHEW.

Requiescat307

AUSTIN, ALFRED.

Agatha13

AUSTIN, SARAH TAYLOR.

Passage, the (German of Uhland)342

AYTON OR AYTOUN, SIR ROBERT.

Woman's Inconstancy71

BACON, FRANCIS, BARON VERULAM.

World, The151

BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES.

Death in Youth (Festus)428

BALLANTINE, JAMES.

"Ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew"241

BARBAULD, ANNA LÆTITIA.

Life400

BARNARD, LADY ANNE.

Auld Robin Gray32

BARR, AMELIA EDITH.

Bottom Drawer, The405

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS.

On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey269

BENJAMIN, PARK.

Old Sexton, The282

BENNETT, LUCY A.

"Asleep! asleep!"396

BÉRANGER, PIERRE-JEAN DE.

Old Vagabond, The (Translation)188

BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON.

"It is not death to die"455

BJÖRNSON, BJÖRSTJERNE.

Princess, The (Dole's Translation)9

BLACKIE, JOHN STUART.

Emigrant Lassie, The280

BLAMIRE, SUSANNA.

"What ails this heart o' mine"139

BLAND, ROBERT.

Time's Revenge (Greek of Agathias)72

BLOOD, HENRY AMES.

Song of Savoyards248

BODENSTEDT, FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON.

Unchanging (Translation)242

BONAR, HORATIUS.

"Beyond the smiling and the weeping" 378

BRENAN, JOSEPH.

"Come to me, dearest"144

BRIDGES, ROBERT (Droch).

Unillumined Verge, The308

BROOKS, MARIA GOWEN (Maria del Occidente).

Song of Egla138

BROWN, JOSEPH BROWNLEE.

Thalatta! Thalatta!388

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT.

Comfort433

De Profundis421

Hopeless Grief217

Mother and Poet323

Sleep, The389

Tears429

Wail of Prometheus Bound, The (Greek of Æschylus)156

BROWNING, ROBERT.

Evelyn Hope310

Prospice391

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN.

Blessed are They that Mourn420

Conqueror's Grave, The442

Thanatopsis264

BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES.

"When my ship comes in"245

BURNS, ROBERT.

"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever"98

Banks o' Doon, The12

Highland Mary329

"I love my Jean"126

Mary in Heaven, To339

"O my Luve's like a red, red rose"99

"O, saw ye bonnie Leslie"130

BURROUGHS, JOHN.

Waiting238

BYRON, GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD.

"Adieu, adieu, my native shore"108

Dream, The73

Farewell to his Wife109

Latest Verses169

"Maid of Athens, ere we part"100

Picture of Death, A (The Giaour)261

CAMOËNS, LUIS DE.

Blighted Love (Strongford's Translation)81

CARLETON, WILL.

"Over the hill to the poor-house"175

CARY, HENRY FRANCIS.

"The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (French of Duke of Orleans)356

CHADWICK, JOHN WHITE.

Two Waitings, The409

CHANNING, WILLIAM_ELLERY.

Sleepy Hollow277

CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANCOIS AUGUSTE, VICOMTE DE.

Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur (Translation)305

CHATTERTON, THOMAS.

Minstrel's Song340

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH.

Despondency Rebuked235

Qua Cursum Ventus107

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR.

Good, Great Man, The244

COSTELLO, LOUISE STUART.

On the Death of Francis I. (French of Marguerite)338

Sonnet (French of Labé)237

To Diane de Poitiers (French of Marat)69

COWPER, WILLIAM.

Present Good, The (The Task)150

CRABBE, GEORGE.

Approach of Age, The (Tales of the Hall)163

CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK.

Now and Afterwards268

Only a Woman86

Too Late335

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE.

Compensation229

CRAWFORD, JULIA (or LOUISA MACARTNEY).

Kathleen Mavourneen112

"We parted in silence"113

DELAND, MARGARETTA WADE.

Love and Death394

DE VERE, AUBREY THOMAS.

"Sad is our youth, for it is ever going"225

DE VERE, MARY AINGE (Madeline Bridges).

Spinner, The70

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON.

Home, Wounded58

DOBSON, AUSTIN.

Sun-Dial, The15

DODGE, MARY ELIZABETH MAPES.

Two Mysteries, The (Along the Way)262

DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL.

Princess, The (Norwegian of Bjornson)9

DORR, JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY.

Hush! (After glow)400

DRAYTON, MICHAEL.

"Come, let us kisse and parte"111

DUFFERIN, HELEN BELINDA SHERIDAN, LADY (afterwards LADY GIFFORD).

Lament of the Irish Emigrant343

EASTMAN, ELAINE GOODALE.

Ashes of Roses51

EDWARDS, AMELIA BLANDFORD.

"Give me three grains of corn, mother"197

FIELD, EUGENE.

Jim's Kids290

FITZGERALD, EDWARD.

Anne Allen, On303

FLEMING, PAUL.

Myself, To (Winkworth's Translation)218

FLETCHER, JOHN.

"Hence, all ye vain delights"160

"Take, O, take those lips away" (Bloody Brother)71

FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS.

My Old Kentucky Home147

Old Folks at Home148

GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING.

Aunt Phillis's Guest239

GAY, JOHN.

Black-Eyed Susan102

GLADDEN, WASHINGTON.

Awakening375

GLUCK, ——

To Death (Translation)395

GRAY, THOMAS.

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard270

HARDINGE, WILLIAM M.

Grave of Sophocles (Greek of Simmias)200

HAWTREY, E.C.

Hector to his Wife (Greek of Homer)122

HAY, JOHN.

Woman's Love, A52

HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON.

In Harbor398

HEBER, REGINALD.

"Thou art gone to the grave"445

HEINE, HEINRICH.

Palm and the Pine, The (Houghton's Translation)40

HEMANS. FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE.

Hour of Death, The259

HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST.

Invictus221

HERBERT, GEORGE.

Flower, The219

Virtue Immortal254

HOBART, MRS. CHARLES.

Changed Cross, The231

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.

Last Leaf, The185

Voiceless, The172

HOMER.

Hector to his Wife (Hawtrey's Translation)122

Parting of Hector and Andromache (Pope's Translation)118

HOOD, THOMAS.

Bridge of Sighs, The208

Death-Bed, The300

"Farewell, Life"384

Song of the Shirt, The199

"What can an old man do but die"174

HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD.

London Churches207

Palm and the Pine, The (German of Heine)40

HOWLAND, MARY WOOLSEY.

Rest397

HOYT, RALPH.

Old180

HUDSON, MARY CLEMMER AMES.

Something Beyond234

INGELOW, JEAN.

Divided64

JACKSON, HELEN FISKE HUNT (H.H.).

Habeas Corpus382

JACKSON, HENRY R.

My Wife and Child226

JENKS, EDWARD A.

Going and Coming458

KEATS, JOHN.

Nightingale, Ode to a166

KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE.

Absence133

Faith95

KENNEDY, CRAMMOND.

Greenwood Cemetery279

KEPPEL, LADY CAROLINE.

Robin Adair134

KING, HENRY.

Sic Vita253

KINGSLEY, CHARLES.

Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter, A191

KNOX, WILLIAM.

Mortality256

LABE, LOUISE.

Sonnet (Costello's Translation)237

LAMB, CHARLES.

Old Familiar Faces, The143

LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (later MRS. MACLEAN).

Female Convict, The215

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE.

Farewell394

Man151

LANG, ANDREW.

Lament for Heliodore (Greek of Meleager)337

LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD.

Song (Robert Louis Stevenson an Elegy and other Poems)417

What of the Darkness (English Poems)360

LE ROUX, GUIRAUD.

Fidelity in Doubt (Preston's Translation)95

LINDSAY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH FITZROY, LADY.

Sonnet304

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK.

Widow's Mite, The287

LOGAN, JOHN.

"Thy braes were bonny"314

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH.

Death of Minnehaha, The (Song of Hiawatha)319

Footsteps of Angels438

God's Acre276

Rainy Day, The228

Reaper and the Flowers, The417

Resignation430

LOVELACE, COLONEL RICHARD.

Lucasta, To123

Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To97

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL.

Auf Wiedersehen114

First Snow-Fall, The283

Palinode115

LOWELL, MARIA WHITE.

Morning-Glory, The285

LYTLE, WILLIAM HAINES.

Antony and Cleopatra380

LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER, EARL OF (Owen Meredith).

Portrait, The82

MCCLEERY, J.L.

"There is no death"456

MACMANUS, ANNA JOHNSTON (MRS. SEUMAS) (Ethna Carbery).

Thinkin' Long141

MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

On the Death of Francis I. (Costello's Translation)338

MAROT, CLEMENT.

To Diane de Poitiers (Costello's Translation)69

MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE.

After Summer336

MELEAGER.

Lament for Heliodore (Lang's Translation)337

MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS.

Cumnor Hall41

MILTON, JOHN.

Lycidas446

Samson on his Blindness (Samson Agonistes)158

Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner220

MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR.

Quaker Graveyard, The278

MOIR, DAVID MACBETH.

Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town, The131

MOORE, THOMAS.

"Alas, how light a cause" (The Light of the Harem)80

"As slow our ship"106

"Farewell!—but whenever"116

"Farewell to thee, Araby's daughter" (Fire Worshippers)316

Linda to Hafed (Fire Worshippers)6

MOSS, THOMAS.

Beggar, The189

MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM.

Jeanie Morrison127

"My heid is like to rend, Willie"49

MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.

"I would not live alway"392

MUNBY, ARTHUR JOSEPH.

Apres355

NAIRNE, CAROLINA OLIPHANT, LADY.

Land o' the Leal, The379

NEELE, HENRY.

"Moan, moan, ye dying gales"152

NOEL, THOMAS.

Pauper's Drive, The202

NORTON, CAROLINE E.S. SHERIDAN (LADY STIRLING MAXWELL).

King of Denmark's Ride, The340

"Love not"8

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH.

Never Despair246

ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF.

"The fairest thing in mortal eyes" (Cary's Trans)356

O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR.

"Has summer come without the rose?"54

PALMER, JOHN WILLIAMSON.

For Charlie's Sake411

PATMORE, COVENTRY [KEARSEY DEIGHTON].

Parting96

PIATT, SARAH MORGAN BRYAN.

Term of Death, The261

PIERPONT, JOHN.

My Child415

POE, EDGAR ALLAN.

Annabel Lee312

For Annie385

POLLEN, JOHN.

Last Leaf, The (Russian of Poushkin)187

POPE, ALEXANDER.

Parting of Hector and Andromache (Greek of Homer)118

POUSHKIN, ALEKSANDER SERGYEVICH.

Last Leaf, The (Pollen's Translation)187

PRESTON, ANNIE A.

"The green grass under the snow"442

PRESTON, HARRIET WATERS.

Fidelity in Doubt (French of Le Roux)95

PRIEST, NANCY AMELIA WOODBURY.

Over the River406

PRINGLE, THOMAS.

Afar in the Desert222

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE.

Doubting Heart, A171

PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (Barry Cornwall).

Life251

"Softly woo away her breath"318

QUARLES, FRANCIS.

Vanity of the World, The153

RAMSAY, ALLAN.

Lochaber no More105

RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHINGTON.

"Blessed are They"425

Christus Consolator432

RITTER, MARY LOUISE.

Perished169

ROGERS, ROBERT CAMERON.

Shadow Rose, The53

ROSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL.

Nevermore, The82

SANGSTER, MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON.

"Are the children at home?"288

SCOTT, FREDERICK GEORGE.

Van Elsen361

SCOTT, SIR WALTER.

Coronach (Lady of the Lake)309

Song31

Song of the Young Highlander101

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind" (As You Like It)155

Course of True Love, The (Midsummer Night's Dream)3

Death of Death460

Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, The (Henry VIII.)161

"Farewell! thou art too dear"112

"Fear no more the heat o' the sun" (Gymbeline)328

Grief (Hamlet)348

Love's Memory (All's Well that ends Well)140

Soliloquy on Death (Hamlet)252

"Take, O, take those lips away"71

Unrequited Love (Twelfth Night)9

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.

Lament, A173

"The sun is warm, the sky is clear"164

SHIRLEY, JAMES.

Death the Leveler253

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP.

"With how sad steps" (Astrophel and Stella)13

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND.

Morning Thought, A267

SILLERY, CHARLES DOYNE.

"She died in beauty"319

SIMMIAS.

Grave of Sophocles, The (Hardinge's Translation)269

SMITH, BELLE E.

"If I should die to-night"374

SOUTHWELL, ROBERT.

"Times go by turns"228

SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH PRESCOTT.

Nun and Harp, The93

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR.

In Memoriam F.A.S.428

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.

Lines to the Memory of"Annie"426

"Only a year"418

STRANGFORD, LORD.

Blighted Love (Portuguese of Camoens)81

STURM. JULIUS.

I Hold Still (Translation)243

SYMONS, ARTHUR.

Portrait, To a34

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD.

"Break, break, break"358

"Home they brought her warrior dead" (Princess)345

Lady Clare Vere de Vere4

Locksley Hall17

May Queen, The292

"Oh that 'twere possible" (Maud)331

Selections from "In Memoriam"340

"Tears, idle tears"142

THOMPSON, FRANCIS.

Daisy130

TICHEBORNE, CHEDIOCK.

Lines written in the Tower159

TIMROD, HENRY.

At Magnolia Cemetery279

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND.

Dorothy in the Garret89

UHLAND, LUDWIG.

Passage, The (Austin's Translation)342

ULRICH, ANTON, DUKE OP BRUNSWICK.

God's Sure Help in Sorrow (Winkworth's Translation) 236

VAUGHAN, HENRY.

"Happy are the dead"439

"They are all gone"403

WASTELL, SIMON.

Man's Mortality255

WATSON, JOHN WHITTAKER.

Beautiful Snow205

WHITMAN, WALT.

"When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed"362

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.

Absent Sailor, To her (The Tent on the Beach)124

Angel of Patience, The402

Maud Muller35

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER.

Unseen Spirits204

WINKWORTH, CATHARINE.

God's Sure Help in Sorrow (German of Ulrich)236

Myself, To (German of Flemming)218

ZANGWILL, ISRAEL.

Blind461

ANONYMOUS.

Absence141

Fair Helen330

Good Bye97

Grief for the Dead408

Guilty or Not Guilty212

Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament47

Lavender355

Parting Lovers, The104

Peace437

Saddest Fate, The247

"They are dear fish to me"195

"Waly, waly"45

Watching for Papa414

Wife to her Husband, The146

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