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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)

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Number of Chapters: 133

Length: 08 hours and 59 minutes

Language: English

The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities, covering subjects such as the imagination; fairies; elves; sprites; myths; mysticism; legends; time; and human life. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by poet and literary historian Charles Francis Richardson (1851-1913). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Place of Poetry in Life by Charles Francis Richardson (Group)
Fantasy: From 'The Vision of Delight' by Ben Jonson (Leanne Yau)
Hallo, My Fancy by William Cleland (Tomas Peter)
Ideality by Hartley Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
Fancy by John Keats (Jason in Panama)
Imagination: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Queen Mab: From 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
Oberon's Feast by Robert Herrick (Craig Franklin)
Fairy's Song: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Leanne Yau)
Compliment to Queen Elizabeth: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
The Fairies' Lullaby: From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare (Group)
Fairies' Song by Thomas Randolph (Jason in Panama)
The Fairies by William Allingham (Tomas Peter)
Kilmeny: From 'The Queen's Wake' by James Hogg (Group)
The Fairy Child by John Anster (Jason in Panama)
Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston (Group)
The Culprit Fay by Joseph Rodman Drake (Group)
Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? by Thomas Haynes Bayly (Leanne Yau)
Songs of Ariel: From 'The Tempest,' Act I. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Tomas Peter)
Airy Nothings: From 'The Tempest,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare (Craig Franklin)
The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Group)
The Djinns by Victor Marie Hugo (Sonia)
The Lady Lost in the Wood: From 'Comus' by John Milton (Leanne Yau)
The Nymph of the Severn: From 'Comus' by John Milton (Group)
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns (Sonia)
The Lore-Lei by Heinrich Heine (Jason in Panama)
The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Leanne Yau)
The Sirens' Song: From 'Inner Temple Masque' by William Browne (Leanne Yau)
The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold (Group)
The Flitting of the Fairies: From 'The End of Elfintown' by Jane Barlow (Leanne Yau)
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonia)
A Transformation: From 'The Metamorphoses' by Ovid (Tomas Peter)
The Comet by Charles Sangster (Craig Franklin)
The Ballad of Judas Iscariot by Robert Buchanan (Group)
The Blessèd Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Leanne Yau)
The King's Highway by Harriet Waters Preston (Sonia)
Rhœcus by James Russell Lowell (Group)
Una and the Red Crosse Knight: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser (Leanne Yau)
Una and the Lion: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto III by Edmund Spenser (Leanne Yau)
The Bower of Bliss: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book II. Canto XII by Edmund Spenser (Jason in Panama)
The Cave of Sleep: From 'The Faërie Queene,' Book I. Canto I by Edmund Spenser (Craig Franklin)
The Castle of Indolence (from Canto I) by James Thomson (Tomas Peter)
Outward Bound by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Sonia)
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Group)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Group)
Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (Sonia)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Sonia)
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Tomas Peter)
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe (Sonia)
The Sunken City by Wilhelm Müller (Sonia)
The Walker of the Snow by Charles Dawson Shanly (Craig Franklin)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning (Group)
Quatrains by William Hamilton Hayne (Leanne Yau)
A Yellow Pansy by Helen Gray Cone (Leanne Yau)
Echo and Silence by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (Leanne Yau)
Sherwood by Alfred Noyes (Jason in Panama)
Far-Away by Dr. George Sigerson (Sonia)
Time the Supreme: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young (Tomas Peter)
To-morrow: From 'Irene' by Samuel Johnson (Sonia)
Three Days by James Roberts Gilmore (Tomas Peter)
Procrastination: From 'Night Thoughts,' Night I by Dr. Edward Young (Leanne Yau)
Ave atque Vale by Rosamund Marriott Watson (Sonia)
The Ballad of Dead Ladies by François Villon (Tomas Peter)
The Approach of Age: Sonnet XII by William Shakespeare (Craig Franklin)
The Old Year and the New by William Cleaver Wilkinson (Jason in Panama)
The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Tomas Peter)
A Fancy from Fontenelle by Austin Dobson (Leanne Yau)
What Is the Grass?: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman (Tomas Peter)
The Petrified Fern by Mary L. Bolles Branch (Leanne Yau)
The Making of Man by John White Chadwick (Jason in Panama)
The Ascent of Man by Rossiter W. Raymond (Sonia)
Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (Group)
Time (An Enigma) by Jonathan Swift (Craig Franklin)
This Life by William Drummond (Sonia)
The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton (Jason in Panama)
Retribution by Friedrich von Logau (Tomas Peter)
The Lye by Sir Walter Raleigh (Craig Franklin)
The Generous Air by Palladas (Leanne Yau)
Good Life, Long Life by Ben Jonson (Sonia)
Life by Richard Henry Wilde (Leanne Yau)
Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Clough (Tomas Peter)
Life by George Herbert (Jason in Panama)
Life by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Sonia)
The Rose-Bush by Johann Ludwig Uhland (Craig Franklin)
History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (Craig Franklin)
My Quaker Grandmothers by Oliver Huckel (Jason in Panama)
Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition by Horace Smith (Sonia)
London Bridge by Frederic Edward Weatherly (Craig Franklin)
The Crowded Street by William Cullen Bryant (Sonia)
L'Allegro by John Milton (Jason in Panama)
Dining: From 'Lucile' by Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith) (Craig Franklin)
The Family Skeleton: From 'Modern Love' by George Meredith (Tomas Peter)
The Epicure by Anacreon (Craig Franklin)
The Indian Weed by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
Smoking Spiritualized by Ralph Erskine (Craig Franklin)
Without and Within by Pietro Metastasio (Jason in Panama)
Il Penseroso by John Milton (Tomas Peter)
Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Group)
The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney (Jason in Panama)
The Vagabonds by John Townsend Trowbridge (Craig Franklin)
Fame: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope (Sonia)
Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (Tomas Peter)
Enid's Song: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Leanne Yau)
Fortune: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck (Leanne Yau)
Opportunity by William Blake (Sonia)
Opportunity by John James Ingalls (Leanne Yau)
Undeveloped Lives by William E.H. Lecky (Sonia)
Augury by Edith M. Thomas (Craig Franklin)
'Keep Sweet and Keep Movin'' by Robert J. Burdette (Tomas Peter)
A Tear by Samuel Rogers (Tomas Peter)
The Jester's Sermon by George Walter Thornbury (Tomas Peter)
The Fool's Prayer by Edward Rowland Sill (Group)
At Midsummer by Louise Chandler Moulton (Leanne Yau)
A Sunrise Song by Sidney Lanier (Craig Franklin)
Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson (Sonia)
Proem: From 'The Isles of the Amazons,' Part III by Joaquin Miller (Tomas Peter)
A California Christmas by Joaquin Miller (Jason in Panama)
Yussouf by James Russell Lowell (Group)
Beauty: From 'An Hymne in Honor of Beautie' by Edmund Spenser (Sonia)
Beauty Unadorned: From 'Elegies,' Book I, II by Propertius (Craig Franklin)
Fortune by Sophocles (Jason in Panama)
Greatness: From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Alexander Pope (Sonia)
Perseverance by Leonardo da Vinci (Craig Franklin)
The One White Hair by Walter Savage Landor (Leanne Yau)
Growing Gray by Austin Dobson (Tomas Peter)
Healthful Old Age: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare (Jason in Panama)
Quack Medicines: From 'The Borough' by George Crabbe (Group)
The Three Warnings by Hester Lynch Thrale (Group)
Old Age and Death: From 'Verses Upon His Divine Poesy' by Edmund Waller (Sonia)
The Ruling Passion: From 'Moral Essays,' Epistle I by Alexander Pope (Group)
The Will by Dr. John Donne (Tomas Peter)
To a Skeleton by Anonymous (Jason in Panama)
The True Philosophy of Life by William Dunbar (Craig Franklin)
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