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1. An Interpreter of Life by Lyman Abbott
2. The Course of True Love: From "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
3. Lady Clara Vere de Vere by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. Linda to Hafed: From "The Fire-Worshippers" by Thomas Moore
5. Love Not by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan (Hon. Mrs. Norton)
6. The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
7. Unrequited Love: From "Twelfth Night," Act I. Sc. 4 by William Shakespeare
8. Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
9. The Banks o' Doon by Robert Burns
10. Sonnet: From "Astrophel and Stella" by Sir Philip Sidney
11. Agatha by Alfred Austin
12. The Sun-Dial by Austin Dobson
13. Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
14. Song by Sir Walter Scott
15. Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard
16. To a Portrait by Arthur Symons
17. Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
18. The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine
19. Cumnor Hall by William Julius Mickle
20. Waly, Waly by Anonymous
21. Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament: A Scottish Song by Anonymous
22. My Heid Is Like to Rend, Willie by William Motherwell
23. Ashes of Roses by Elaine Goodale Eastman
24. A Woman's Love by John Hay
25. The Shadow Rose by Robert Cameron Rogers
26. Has Summer Come without the Rose? by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
27. The Dirty Old Man: A Lay of Leadenhall by William Allingham
28. Home, Wounded by Sydney Dobell
29. Divided by Jean Ingelow
30. To Diane de Poitiers by Clément Marot
31. The Spinner by Mary Ainge De Vere (Madeline Bridges)
32. Take, O, Take Those Lips Away by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
33. Woman's Inconstancy by Sir Robert Ayton
34. Time's Revenge by Agathias
35. The Dream by Lord Byron
36. Alas! How Light a Cause May Move: From "The Light of the Harem" by Thomas Moore
37. Blighted Love by Luís de Camões
38. The Nevermore by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
39. The Portrait by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (Owen Meredith)
40. Only a Woman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
41. Dorothy in the Garret by John Townsend Trowbridge
42. The Nun and Harp by Harriet Prescott Spofford
43. Fidelity in Doubt by Guiraud Le Roux
44. Faith by Frances Anne Kemble-Butler
45. Parting by Coventry Patmore
46. To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
47. Good-bye by Anonymous
48. Ae Fond Kiss before We Part by Robert Burns
49. O, My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
50. Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by Lord Byron
51. 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
52. Black-Eyed Susan by John Gay
53. The Parting Lovers by Anonymous
54. Lochaber No More by Allan Ramsay
55. As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
56. Qua Cursum Ventus by Arthur Hugh Clough
57. Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore by Lord Byron
58. Farewell to His Wife by Lord Byron
59. Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte by Michael Drayton
60. Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear: Sonnet LXXXVII by William Shakespeare
61. Kathleen Mavourneen by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
62. We Parted in Silence by Julia (or Louisa Macartney) Crawford
63. Auf Wiedersehen: Summer by James Russell Lowell
64. Palinode: Autumn by James Russell Lowell
65. Farewell!—But Whenever by Thomas Moore
66. Parting of Hector and Andromache: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
67. Hector to His Wife: From "The Iliad," Book VI by Homer
68. To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace
69. To Her Absent Sailor: From "The Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier
70. I Love My Jean by Robert Burns
71. Jeanie Morrison by William Motherwell
72. O, Saw Ye Bonnie Leslie? by Robert Burns
73. The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town by David Macbeth Moir
74. Absence by Frances Anne Kemble
75. Robin Adair by Lady Caroline Keppel
76. Daisy by Francis Thompson
77. Song of Egla by Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente)
78. What Ails This Heart o' Mine? by Susanna Blamire
79. Love's Memory: From "All's Well That Ends Well," Act I. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
80. Absence by Anonymous
81. Thinkin' Long by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)
82. "Tears, Idle Tears": From "The Princess" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
83. The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
84. Come to Me, Dearest by Joseph Brenan
85. The Wife to Her Husband by Anonymous
86. My Old Kentucky Home: Negro Song by Stephen Collins Foster
87. Old Folks at Home by Stephen Collins Foster
88. The Present Good: From "The Task," Book VI by William Cowper
89. Man by Walter Savage Landor
90. The World by Francis, Lord Bacon
91. Moan, Moan, Ye Dying Gales by Henry Neele
92. The Vanity of the World by Francis Quarles
93. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind: From "As You Like It," Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare
94. The Wail of Prometheus Bound: From "Prometheus" by Aeschylus
95. Samson on His Blindness: From "Samson Agonistes" by John Milton
96. Lines by Chidiock Tichborne
97. Hence, All Ye Vain Delights: From "The Nice Valour," Act III. Sc. 3 by John Fletcher
98. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey: From "King Henry VIII," Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare
99. The Approach of Age: From "Tales of the Hall" by George Crabbe
100. Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples by Percy Bysshe Shelley
101. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
102. Perished: Catskill Mountain House by Mary Louise Ritter
103. Byron's Latest Verses by Lord Byron
104. A Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Procter
105. The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes
106. A Lament by Percy Bysshe Shelley
107. "What Can an Old Man Do but Die?" by Thomas Hood
108. Over the Hill to the Poor-house by Will Carleton
109. Old by Ralph Hoyt
110. The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
111. The Last Leaf: Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
112. The Old Vagabond by Pierre-Jean de Béranger
113. The Beggar by Thomas Moss
114. A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter: The English Game Laws by Charles Kingsley
115. "They Are Dear Fish to Me" by Anonymous
116. Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother: The Irish Famine by Amelia Blandford Edwards
117. The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
118. The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel
119. Unseen Spirits by Nathaniel Parker Willis
120. Beautiful Snow by James W. Watson
121. London Churches by Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton)
122. The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
123. Guilty, or Not Guilty? by Anonymous
124. The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
125. Hopeless Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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. Summary by Tomas Peter

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