The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, contains a series of odes and addresses to the natural and artistic realms, as well as various geographic places in the world, from Egypt and India, all the way to England and America. It concludes with popular narrative poetry originating from the Greek, Roman, Norse, German, East Asian, Spanish, French, English, Scottish and American literary traditions. - Summary by Tomas Peter
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Adam and Eve: From 'Paradise Lost,' Book IV by John Milton
04:22 - Chapter 2
Seven Ages of Man: From 'As You Like It,' Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
02:30 - Chapter 3
Cleopatra: From 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
03:08 - Chapter 4
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From 'Queen Mab,' Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley
03:00 - Chapter 5
Freedom in Dress: From 'Epicœne; or, the Silent Woman,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson
01:17 - Chapter 6
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman
03:36 - Chapter 7
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick
01:18 - Chapter 8
The Toilet: From 'The Rape of the Lock,' Canto I by Alexander Pope
02:06 - Chapter 9
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
03:42 - Chapter 10
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton
01:32 - Chapter 11
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt
02:21 - Chapter 12
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore
01:10 - Chapter 13
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
05:25 - Chapter 14
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)
02:32 - Chapter 15
City Bells: From 'The Lay of St. Aloy's' by Richard Harris Barham
01:27 - Chapter 16
The Cuckoo Clock: From 'The Birthday' by Caroline Bowles Southey
01:25 - Chapter 17
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail
02:18 - Chapter 18
Leonardo's 'Monna Lisa' by Edward Dowden
01:25 - Chapter 19
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant
03:10 - Chapter 20
Mist by Henry David Thoreau
01:03 - Chapter 21
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day
03:44 - Chapter 22
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
01:10 - Chapter 23
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North)
01:17 - Chapter 24
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman
02:39 - Chapter 25
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell
01:51 - Chapter 26
The Nile by Leigh Hunt
01:18 - Chapter 27
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
01:34 - Chapter 28
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
03:53 - Chapter 29
The Orient: From 'The Bride of Abydos' by Lord Byron
01:44 - Chapter 30
The Vale of Cashmere: From 'The Light of the Harem' by Thomas Moore
02:28 - Chapter 31
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03:28 - Chapter 32
The Rhine (To His Sister): From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron
02:22 - Chapter 33
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in 'Rhymes for the Nursery' by Robert Southey
05:00 - Chapter 34
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
01:18 - Chapter 35
The White Peacock: From 'Sospiri di Roma' by William Sharp
03:16 - Chapter 36
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
01:28 - Chapter 37
The Coliseum: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
05:26 - Chapter 38
The Pantheon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
01:40 - Chapter 39
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe
04:56 - Chapter 40
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse
01:19 - Chapter 41
Saint Peter's at Rome: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto IV by Lord Byron
01:25 - Chapter 42
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
02:40 - Chapter 43
Venice by John Addington Symonds
01:25 - Chapter 44
Venice: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
03:10 - Chapter 45
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough
02:11 - Chapter 46
Venice: From 'View from the Euganean Hills' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
03:00 - Chapter 47
Naples: From 'Italy' by Samuel Rogers
02:59 - Chapter 48
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read
03:32 - Chapter 49
England: From 'The Traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith
01:43 - Chapter 50
That England: From 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
03:08 - Chapter 51
The Knight: From 'Marmion,' Canto I by Sir Walter Scott
05:57 - Chapter 52
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne
02:41 - Chapter 53
Melrose Abbey: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto II by Sir Walter Scott
04:21 - Chapter 54
An Old Time Christmas: From 'Marmion,' Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
04:10 - Chapter 55
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
02:23 - Chapter 56
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
26:27 - Chapter 57
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
01:26 - Chapter 58
London by John Davidson
01:17 - Chapter 59
The Village Schoolmistress: From 'The Schoolmistress' by William Shenstone
05:37 - Chapter 60
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson
07:32 - Chapter 61
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
01:12 - Chapter 62
The Settler by Alfred B. Street
03:44 - Chapter 63
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
03:12 - Chapter 64
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From 'Fanny' by Fitz-Greene Halleck
02:36 - Chapter 65
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
02:48 - Chapter 66
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor
02:39 - Chapter 67
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang
01:15 - Chapter 68
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton
05:38 - Chapter 69
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison ('Seranus')
05:39 - Chapter 70
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein
02:16 - Chapter 71
The Fall of Troy: From the 'Æneid' by Virgil
05:22 - Chapter 72
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
22:06 - Chapter 73
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund's Edda
07:42 - Chapter 74
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the 'Frithiof Saga,' Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér
09:22 - Chapter 75
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
08:05 - Chapter 76
The Baron's Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene
03:54 - Chapter 77
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
03:52 - Chapter 78
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt
04:44 - Chapter 79
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker
13:06 - Chapter 80
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis
06:28 - Chapter 81
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso
05:03 - Chapter 82
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis
05:37 - Chapter 83
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
03:12 - Chapter 84
The Ballad of Guibour: From 'Calendau' by Frédéric Mistral
04:43 - Chapter 85
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt
02:44 - Chapter 86
The Glove by Robert Browning
09:31 - Chapter 87
Louis XV by John Sterling
02:47 - Chapter 88
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning
08:06 - Chapter 89
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell
03:15 - Chapter 90
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning
04:23 - Chapter 91
Mort D'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
17:33 - Chapter 92
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
05:26 - Chapter 93
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From 'The Canterbury Tales: Prologue' by Geoffrey Chaucer
15:52 - Chapter 94
Lord Lovel by Anonymous
03:13 - Chapter 95
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous
05:35 - Chapter 96
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey
05:43 - Chapter 97
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
09:01 - Chapter 98
England: From 'King John,' Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
00:48 - Chapter 99
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg
11:51 - Chapter 100
Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell
03:06 - Chapter 101
Marmion and Douglas: From 'Marmion,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
04:41 - Chapter 102
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott
14:40 - Chapter 103
Fitz-James and Ellen: From 'The Lady of the Lake,' Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott
07:53 - Chapter 104
Muckle-Mou'd Meg by James Ballantine
03:22 - Chapter 105
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
10:20 - Chapter 106
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier
05:47 - Chapter 107
The Fight of the 'Armstrong' Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche
07:04 - Chapter 108
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe
03:21