The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
| 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 |
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
JOHN D. MORRIS AND COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1904, by
John D. Morris & Company
JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE.
Photogravure after portrait by Stieler.[Pg v]
The World's Best Poetry Vol. IX
Of TRAGEDY:
of HUMOR
THE OLD CASE OF
POETRY
IN A NEW COURT
By FRANCIS A. GUMMERE
JOHN D. MORRIS AND COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1904, by
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