The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Author: Various Commentator: Lyman Abbott Editor: Bliss Carman Release Date: October 1, 2005 [EBook #16786] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY, VOLUME 3 *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Victoria Woosley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED VOLUME III SORROW AND CONSOLATION AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE By LYMAN ABBOTT HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Photogravure from photograph by Hanstaingl, after portrait by Kramer. TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: "AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE." By Lyman Abbot POEMS OF SORROW AND CONSOLATION: I. DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE. II. PARTING AND ABSENCE III. ADVERSITY. IV. COMFORT AND CHEER. V. DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT. VI. CONSOLATION. INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED Editor-in-Chief BLISS CARMAN Associate Editors John Vance Cheney Charles G.D. Roberts Charles F. Richardson Francis H. Stoddard Managing Editor John R.