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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

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THE WORLD'S
BEST POETRY

I Home: Friendship VI Fancy: Sentiment
II Love VII Descriptive: Narrative
III Sorrow and Consolation VIII National Spirit
IV The Higher Life IX Tragedy: Humor
V Nature X Poetical Quotations

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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. Howard

J.D. Morris and Company
Philadelphia

COPYRIGHT, 1904, by
J.D. Morris & Company

The World's Best Poetry
Vol. III

SORROW AND
CONSOLATION

AN
INTERPRETER OF
LIFE

By
LYMAN ABBOTT

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NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.

I.

American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyright
are used by the courteous permission of the owners,--either the
publishers named in the following list or the authors or their
representatives in the subseq